Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This greed for status reinforces the wife 's role as child-bearing domestic slave or chattel , and spoils for ever the chance of a real relationship . |
2 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
3 | To answer this lies in both the yarn and the individual pattern . |
4 | The difference lies in how the image is captured . |
5 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
6 | For example in an advertising agency discussion about a new campaign to revive a soft drink one person might be trying to solve the problem of how an old drink can be called " new " in any sense ; another person might be trying to solve the problem of how " old " can be made appealing ; arid a third person might be trying to solve the problem of designing a theme that will sell not to the public but to the marketing manager who has to okay the campaign . |
7 | ‘ Every investor has to back the judgment and ability of the management , but what we want to control is the exceptional event , ’ says Enskilda Ventures ' managing director Bert Wiegman . |
8 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
9 | Imports of consumer goods they claim , are held back because marketing costs are prohibitive in a country which has over twice the number of retail stores per head of the population than in the US or West Germany . |
10 | Make sure that , sure they 're good quality photographs , normally black and white , sharp , appropriate and so forth , and make sure that you 've got sufficient details associated with it , often a good way of doing it is by having a , something typed on a slip of paper which is just very slightly stuck to the , to the back so the editor can actually see what the thing is and can take it off if he needs to when the picture is actually being reproduced . |
11 | The Tempa Rossa field lies across both the Laurenzana and Torrente Sauro permits — LASMO is operator of Torrente Sauro and has a 20 per cent interest in Laurenzana . |
12 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
13 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
14 | Chapter 17 then looks at how the government alters the supply of money in the economy and influences the money market . |
15 | A literary experiment changes a text and looks at how the change affects a reader . |
16 | In the final part of our series on the plane known as Fat Albert , Erika Barnes looks at how the Hercules has brought help to civilians in times of crisis . |
17 | Helen Kay looks at how the God Squad handle some huge assets and equally big liabilities |
18 | Gerry Tissier looks at how the project is shaping up |
19 | In the first of two reports , Mike Rowbottom looks at how the situation has changed |
20 | The programme looks at how the countryside was affected by the ravages of war , and how the Vietnamese people are trying to recover from it . |
21 | ‘ For Your Freedom and Ours ; Poland , Scotland and the Second World War ’ looks at how the men of the 1st Polish Army corps adapted to their new surroundings and , in many cases , decided to settle here for the rest of their lives . |
22 | The report then looks at how the fund was used , the outcomes obtained and the options for those refused help . |
23 | Elspeth Burnside looks at how the growth of the women 's professional circuit has revitalised the amateur game . |
24 | This is generally what the public thinks of when the word statistics is mentioned |
25 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
26 | I often think er and then of course you see if , if they er the airmen , their wives used to try and get er digs near where the aerodromes were so they could see their menfolk . |
27 | Cunliffe criticises the new legislation on the ground that a man could be liable under Category 2 where he engaged in consensual sexual intercourse if this results in either the rupture of a woman 's hymen , the transmission of a sexual disease or her pregnancy . |
28 | Normally this would be in the region of the matrix indicating early phases of a life-cycle , where competitive advantage can be built up by investment ( although where this region is on the McKinsey matrix depends upon how the axes are interpreted , i.e. whether one works with figure 4.3 or 4.4 ) . |
29 | Whether others will follow depends upon how the ANC pursues its anti-trust policy if it comes to power . |
30 | Figure 7.5 Which of a pair of male sticklebacks wins in a territorial dispute depends on where the fight takes place , as a simple experiment by Niko Tinbergen demonstrates . |