Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So all that preening naked on the pool-edge was for my benefit ? ’ he teased . |
| 2 | That goes hand-in-hand with the case made for trade union involvement in oil and gas industry activities . |
| 3 | That became available to the parties on 19 January 1992 . |
| 4 | As far as small schools are concerned , erm one of the things that that became clear during the debate on Banbury School was that the school itself is funded according to the formula that is allocated for all the other Oxfordshire eleven to eighteen schools and it is not something additional . |
| 5 | There 's a pub that 's very similar in constructions to that , that lies low beside the lock . |
| 6 | This became famous under the brand name of Gossage . |
| 7 | In the end , this became critical to the industry 's survival . |
| 8 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |
| 9 | Secondly , and this became clear in the negotiations that followed , machines were the real key to the whole question . |
| 10 | In a context in which the majority of married women now work and the reason for a single-earner couple is often related to having children , this looks inequitable to the extent that those with more responsibilities are less favourably treated ( see Johnson and Stark 1990 ) . |
| 11 | If the buyer , takes delivery and , after having a reasonable opportunity to examine the goods to see if they comply with the contract , he does some act inconsistent with the seller being the owner of them ( e.g. by selling them ) . |
| 12 | Thus , in non-anaphoric uses , ( 73 ) How are things there ? does not generally mean " how are things at some place distant from the speaker " , but rather " how are things where the addressee is " . |
| 13 | If a trust can be established with the posthumous child as trustee , then he must have received some benefit attributable to the intention of the deceased and arising from succession to him . |
| 14 | This occurs irrespective of the setting of the inheritance boundary . |
| 15 | With it , we are back with the problems of identity , specifically those of projection , the process by which certain aspects of the self are seen as located in some object external to the self , and of introjection , the process by which certain aspects of external objects are seen as being located within the self ; we are firmly back in the area of object-relations . |
| 16 | As far as can be ascertained this happened near to the position of the guide pulley sited on the lower embankment . |
| 17 | and all of this leads natural to the final fifth proposition not only does the bible teach that all may be saved , not only does it teach that however that not all will be saved , not only is it true and clear that some will be saved and we do not , do not , do not expect to be saved , not only is it quite clear that others will not be saved , who we expected to be saved , but finally it is quite clear that no one will be saved except by God 's way , and God 's way of salvation is very simply by repentance and faced . |
| 18 | Some soared up and down in gentle arcs : some shot horizontally : some rocketed high into the sky , then turned about and suddenly plummeted . |
| 19 | Five days later the platoons were preparing to strike at the nearest Japanese column when this swung clear of the counter-punch . |
| 20 | It took some getting used to the idea that Gentiles were fellow-heirs in God 's kingdom , brothers and sisters in the same family , for there was a great deal of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 21 | Binding was the second most frequent reason for the non-availability of material , and — since the most frequent reason was simply that a requested item was already in use — it was the main reason which could be considered as in some measure attributable to the Library 's own procedures . |
| 22 | As long as the Irish Republic provides a safe haven for substantial numbers of known terrorists , the British people will hold the Irish people in some measure responsible for the tragedies wrought by terrorism . |
| 23 | This seems similar to the semantic juggling reported by Jones and Poletti when visiting Italy after the introduction of Law 180 in 1978 , which forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals . |
| 24 | In practice , however , social workers will still be able to offer personal help to their clients when this seems useful within the agreed care plan . |
| 25 | This seems distinct from the earlier image of a crowd being roused to the point of demanding blood . |
| 26 | This perspective is unduly restrictive of the role of law in its socially instrumental aspects and unduly kind to those who have power over the legislative and judicial functions of states in that to define law in terms of the pursuit of order seems unwarrantably to exclude the use of law to foment disorder when this seems desirable to the politically strong . |
| 27 | Though Mustakimzade asserts that Fahreddin Acemi studied under al-Taftazani , this seems unlikely as the latter died in 792/1389–90 , and one suspects that his statement derives either from a misreading of the genealogy or from a faulty genealogy . |
| 28 | A systemic mode of action has been suggested for calcium but this seems unlikely from the present study since the serum values of calcium and phosphate were similar in the different groups . |
| 29 | This seems inconsistent with the practice of producing a consolidated balance sheet . |
| 30 | This contradicts certain of the assumptions and theories which are popular in explaining patterns of inequality in employment . |