Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences between disciplines to which Taylor refers mean that the discussion will to some extent be an abstract one , moving at a level at which one can identify general ideas , characteristics and trends . |
| 2 | This goes to confirm that the figures shown in Table 11.1 are fairly representative of the industry more generally . |
| 3 | Understanding the second sentence involves understanding that the object of ‘ likes ’ is ‘ dog ’ , a word which appeared earlier . |
| 4 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 5 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 6 | Everyone involved has to realize that the tasks are not relearned in an automatic sequence : the fact that the patient may be able to put on his sweater one day does not necessarily mean that he is immediately able to progress to putting on his trousers — indeed , he may have forgotten how to cope with the sweater the following day . |
| 7 | Yet the counsellor of older people has to realize that the blocks may not necessarily be those current in modern attitudes and beliefs . |
| 8 | The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised . |
| 9 | This perspective puts mathematics educators in a very comfortable position , until we recognise that it is not uncontentious and , in any case , is rarely made explicit to children , which would involve them in a detailed consideration of how mathematics has developed and the relations between abstract mathematics and reality . |
| 10 | Nearly 50 years later the language has altered but the substance looks strikingly familiar . |
| 11 | Mr Williamson has recognized that the adaptation of existing buildings would be allowed . |
| 12 | Cronenberg himself has commented that The Fly and others of his films are about how viruses deform bodies , and that his originality lies in that he is ‘ on the side of the virus ’ . |
| 13 | Cook gently , uncovered , stirring from time to time , for about half an hour , until most of the moisture has evaporated and the tomatoes are in a pulp . |
| 14 | J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose . |
| 15 | The court has heard that the couple met in June 1991 , while Miss Warburton was on work experience at the Crown Prosecution Office in Salford , where Green worked . |
| 16 | He has heard that the King is ill and he has sent for me , from the distant land beyond Kelfazin , to find the cause of his sickness . |
| 17 | Everyone has heard that the mustard giants make their money from the amount of the condiment that is left on the sides of our plates . |
| 18 | Although the rate of growth has fallen since the oil crises of the 1970s , Japan 's productivity advantage has been magnified by very low rates of increase in unit labour costs . |
| 19 | Now the oil price has fallen and the business has collapsed . |
| 20 | This shows that the number of farms has fallen by 14% ; the number in the smaller size bracket generally ( under 30 hectares ) has fallen and the number in the larger size brackets risen . |
| 21 | As each car approaches the commentator 's microphone the whine of its engine rises , and then starts to fall as the car passes the microphone and moves away round the circuit . |
| 22 | Financière Agache , which with the Company controls LVMH , has undertaken that the interests of it and its associates in the Company will not exceed the interests in LVMH attributable to the Company , which represents 24 per cent of the fully diluted share capital of LVMH . |
| 23 | Our previous discussion has explained that the Bretton Woods system did not become fully operational until after the general acceptance of current account convertibility in 1958 . |
| 24 | The duo also play the ‘ Somerset Psychos ’ , introduced after Harry has explained that the West Country has no regional opera company . |
| 25 | Walking the river in the close season , when the bankside and aquatic vegetation has blossomed and the water is running clear and low , is the best time for actually spotting the chub as they go about their daily business . |
| 26 | The lineout remains a big headache , although Drikus Hattingh has won good ball at the front and No 8 Adriaan Richter has blossomed as the tour has unfolded . |
| 27 | Like international directory enquiries for telephone numbers it desperately needs administering and the US government has recently appointed AT&T to do just that . |
| 28 | Two examples illustrate some of the dilemmas the strategy has exposed and the policies initiated to deal with them . |
| 29 | The lateral membrane/intercellular space staining , however , has vanished after the instillation is terminated . |
| 30 | If this is passed the government falls : however , despite the fact that such motions are debated every few months , only one has succeeded since the constitution was drawn up in 1958 . |