Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 2 | Certainly get looks like it the sun 's going in . |
| 3 | If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else . |
| 4 | When life gets more interesting one is more responsive , more aware of one 's surroundings and what one is doing ; his answer , inarticulate as it may be , has behind it the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 5 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 6 | ‘ An essential characteristic of cyclical behaviour is not only that expansion and contraction follow each other , but that each phase of the cycle contains within it the seeds to generate the succeeding phase ’ ( R. Levacic , Macroeconomics ) . |
| 7 | And , says the writer , " selue may eueri man sen in himself " for he has within him the image of the Trinity : a creative power which enables him to know , and to love what he knows . |
| 8 | ‘ People have a tendency to present their messages as a new problem … rather than as something which has within it the elements of a solution . ’ |
| 9 | And they have argued that , whilst feminism should indeed always have a critical relationship to psychoanalytic theory , the latter has within it the potential for allowing a better understanding of the complexities of human desires and of the psychological construction of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 10 | An association of the deaf , powerful in its members and unity , has before it the greatness of things to be done . |
| 11 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |
| 12 | We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible , absolutely impossible , to explain in any classical way , and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . |
| 14 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 15 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand , if anyone abstains but no-one votes against it the motion is passed nem. con. — with no-one contradicting . |
| 17 | ‘ But it 's the primary school which deals with it the Monday after selection . |
| 18 | Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform . |
| 19 | His honest suffering reveals to her the nobility of selfless love and the truth of language which is metaphoric yet direct . |
| 20 | Forced to depart from Suxavat by its apocalyptic destruction , Urim 's final journey to the Andes reveals to him the mirror-image of the Hindu Kush of his origins . |
| 21 | This requires a sensitive , exploratory approach which validates the user/carer perspective but integrates with it the knowledge and skills of the practitioner . |
| 22 | Every step forward requires of us the abandonment of the past . |
| 23 | In other words , it is the Spirit of Jesus who reproduces in us the crucifixion and the resurrection of our Lord . |
| 24 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 25 | The Bible encourages in us the desire for God as the source of human happiness . |
| 26 | Similarly , via the intermediary of reflected light rays , interaction between the corpuscles of gold and those of our eyes produces in us the idea of yellowness . |
| 27 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 28 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 29 | one which does not exclude the bailor from possession , an action for conversion against a third person is maintainable by either bailor or bailee ; by the bailee because he is in possession , by the bailor because it is said that his title to the goods draws with it the right to possession , that the bailee is something like his servant and that the possession of the one is equivalent to that of the other . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems to me the law is reasonably plain . |