Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | For many seconds he just stood where he was , as still as a man who has gazed into the eyes of the Medusa . |
2 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |
3 | 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) . |
4 | It is linked to the preamp by means of a lockable multi-pin connector , which is a very sensible idea , as anyone who has suffered from the lead-as-tripwire syndrome will no doubt agree . |
5 | Despite the best endeavours of every serious historian who has written about the subject , this myth is still widely believed . |
6 | In this book , which will also serve as the catalogue for the exhibitions , has it been you who has written about the unpublished drawings ? |
7 | Simon Greenwood has been appointed chief editor at Quiller Press , succeeding Giles Mandelbrote , who has moved to the Historical Manuscripts Royal Commission |
8 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
9 | His Formentera representative is Gina Wenham who has lived on the island for 20 years . |
10 | General manager Nick Burrows said : ‘ We want people to write a snoring CV supported by evidence from a partner who has lived with the noise . |
11 | It actually takes someone who has lived through the past 40 years as an adult to appreciate how extraordinarily the England of the 1970s differed from the England of the 1940s , and the France , Italy or Spain of the 1980s from those countries in the early 1950s . |
12 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
13 | Grubb , who has lived in the United States for some years , was brought into the British team that finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , and will be coming to Britain hoping to make the Barcelona team . |
14 | After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move . |
15 | Mr Calvert , 63 , who has lived in the village for ten years , claimed when the row first surfaced two years ago the vicar was ‘ disturbing God 's peace ’ , and affecting his sleep . |
16 | Pensioner Sarah McKeown , who has lived in the area all her life , is settled into a new three-bedroomed house . |
17 | Sound advice from a man who has lived in the eyes of the media for the past 10 years . |
18 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
19 | Amnesty International 's Ex-Services Group is keen to contact any Amnesty member who has served in the armed forces . |
20 | IAIN CRICHTON-SMITH also writes about the plight of the outsider , that of the officer who has risen through the ranks . |
21 | He replied , ‘ Like one who has risen in the morning and does not know whether he will be dead in the evening . ’ |
22 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting may be or would be embarrassing , damaging or inconvenient to an individual who has featured in the case . |
23 | The law does not permit the right of the press freely to report proceedings in open court to be fettered , notwithstanding that such reporting would be inconvenient , embarrassing or damaging to some individual who has featured in the case . |
24 | Readers must decide for themselves but should bear in mind the words of the man who has followed in the footsteps of Mr Jason Donovan as the eponymous star of Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat : ‘ It 's not the easiest thing in the world to be Phillip Schofield 's girlfriend . ’ |
25 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
26 | Equally you will not need an application form , except possibly for the record , if you are seeing a single applicant who has applied for the job ‘ on spec . ’ |
27 | First the millionaire star — who has soared into the charts at No 16 with his new single Sentinel — landed shaking with terror after the plane doors flew open at 5,000 feet on one of his first training flights . |
28 | Andrew MacKinlay , the Labour MP who has campaigned on the matter , has highlighted the case of one widow , now aged 98 , who only recently steeled herself to admit to her family that her husband had been executed for cowardice . |
29 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
30 | No mention is ever made of any of the basic principles of homoeopathy and the undergraduate who has heard of the subject is likely to qualify with an inbuilt prejudice against it which will be difficult for him or her to overcome later on . |