Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to stop the spell which has made the broom fetch water , the apprentice breaks it in two only to have both halves doing the job at twice the speed . |
| 2 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 3 | If , in these cases , the creditor leaves it to the debtor to procure the third party to provide the security , it is , in my opinion , almost inconceivable that the approach referred to by Dixon J. would be adopted so as to enable the surety to repudiate liability . |
| 4 | The debtor is not , in general , the agent of the creditor whether or not the creditor leaves it to the debtor to procure the third party security . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) Where the creditor leaves it to the debtor to obtain the signature of a third party surety on documents of guarantee or on documents charging the surety 's principal or important asset , it exposes itself to the possibility of being restrained under applicable equitable doctrines . |
| 6 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 7 | The journey back to the resort takes you through the Wachau wine region on the Danube . |
| 8 | Nothing that I have read about the case leads me to the conclusion that anything untoward happened or that the basic and important principle of the GP 's right to refer has been undermined . |
| 9 | But the resistance buries them beneath a cross . ’ |
| 10 | Since the text provides you with so much material , it may not be obvious why dictionaries , encyclopedias and other books in the reference section of your library can be useful to you . |
| 11 | In addition , the victor sees it as a sign of capitulation by his opponent . |
| 12 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 13 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 14 | The operands may be of different lengths ; if the first operand is shorter , the computer processes it as if it was extended on the left with zeros ; if the second ( destination ) field is shorter , some of the more significant digits of the result are lost . |
| 15 | Before we move on , let's just have a look at those numerical estimates , can we look at the coefficients on income , notice that in this model because we 've logged both dependent and the independent variables , right , the coefficients that we estimate are elasticities , right , so we can read those coefficients off directly as elasticities and that 's the case for any model in which all the variables are logged right , in er , if we did n't log the data , in order to calculate the elasticity we have to multiply a coefficient the computer gives us by a erm price quantity ratio , price less , less part of the income constant ratio to obtain the income elasticities . |
| 16 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 17 | The satellite intersections with these three events would have been termed ‘ mantle ’ , ‘ cusp ’ and ‘ cleft ’ in a spatial interpretation , but the radar shows them to be similar events seen at different phases of their evolution . |
| 18 | The motivation of the person required to make the decision is likely to be totally different from that of the person offering the decision — yet too often the presenter of the decision imagines it to be the same . |
| 19 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 20 | While the objectors to Foxley Wood — and to Tillingham and Stone Bassett before it — may be rejoicing , the decision leaves us with no solutions to the future growth of population and households in the region . |
| 21 | With goods having only one normal use the mere fact of the purchase will , by implication , make it known that this is what the buyer wants them for , e. g. a hot-water bottle , as in Priest v. |
| 22 | The paradigm presents him with a set of definite problems together with methods that he is confident will be adequate for their solution . |
| 23 | Clearly the subtle substructure of theological argument in the negative tradition which underlies the experiential theology of the Cloud-author distinguishes him from Julian of Norwich whose vibrant sense of the reality of the being of God at work in human nature was born out of her visionary meditative experience focused on Christ 's Passion . |
| 24 | To the extent that inclinations from my own viewpoint harmonize or conflict with yours , the interaction moves me in new directions for or against you and your goals , to sympathy or antipathy , love or hate , pity or cruelty , gratitude or revenge . |
| 25 | Being a strong swimmer is obviously important , as is being reasonably fit , since when the wave puts you through its ‘ rinse cycle ’ you come out disoriented and out of breath . |
| 26 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 27 | Those who think of Pound as a great liberator from stiff and hidebound conventions will be disconcerted to find that Newbolt on the contrary treats him as an academic formalist . |
| 28 | The trail takes you through both old and new plantations — look out for woodpeckers and birds such as long tailed tits and wrens which share their habitat . |
| 29 | The last section of the trail takes you from Bickleywood , on past Barhill Farm and across country to reach the Shropshire Union Canal . |
| 30 | Courtship in the three-spined stickleback begins with a ‘ zigzag ’ display by the male ; if the female responds by showing a silvery egg-filled belly , the male leads her to his nest , and shows her the entrance . |