Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb base] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The majority revere him in spite of all he 's done , ’ said a US official . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , it 's not often the majority express themselves without some prompting from the shop stewards , ’ the convener replied , ‘ but in this instance the reaction was instantaneous . |
| 3 | Building societies are a bit naughty in that they 're regularly advertising rates at over fifty thousand pounds , the Loughborough do it for one , in er my local paper . |
| 4 | They are centred around a flower festival at St John 's from today until Sunday and include two organ recitals by Dr Donald Davison and an exhibition on the history of Malone parish , which will be presented by parishioner Dr Paul Larmour , the writer Take it from me , nobody knows more about the past of that part of Belfast than Paul . |
| 5 | Surely the Board have someone in mind . |
| 6 | Yet a couple of features in the sentence push it towards Orientation : it contains an explicit temporal signal in the form of " when " and , more significantly , contains a past progressive verb phrase ( " he was sitting " ) . |
| 7 | And The Shamen have plenty of theories . |
| 8 | Such readings of the text lead one to the conclusion that patriarchal presuppositions are woven into the writing in such a way that they can not be extricated . |
| 9 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 10 | It was not until the 1960s that the courts rid themselves of the most debilitating restraints of formalism and assumed a more active supervisory role . |
| 11 | The courts treat it as a question of fact and take an ad hoc approach . |
| 12 | Aelian reports that ‘ the Brahmins honour them above all other birds . |
| 13 | Ideally , you should be able to go to your VDU terminal , pass through the necessary security controls , input information , have the computer check it for you , enquire on particular elements or records of information , produce ad hoc or regular print outs and produce graphical output with simple commands . |
| 14 | In ecology the Germans take it for granted that they are more ecology-minded than anyone else , and that they have a special sensitivity for this too . |
| 15 | The minutes of the SGM held on the 4th May 1990 were read and it was agreed that the chairman sign them as a true record . |
| 16 | As far as the make-up of the commission is concerned , the Russians want it to be composed of professionals and specialists , while the Germans believe that it should above all have a strong political element ’ . |
| 17 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 18 | The plans of the groups enable them to be identified with those shown on large-scale Ordnance Survey maps , except for those sites subsequently ploughed out , which often survived as ring-ditches . |
| 19 | The DoE tell me in a letter that they are free from indemnity . |
| 20 | I disagree , and on the contrary find myself in full agreement with those parts of the judgment of Parker L.J . |
| 21 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 22 | Indeed , the researchers expect it to be another 10 years before devices using the technology can come to market . |
| 23 | The way we look at it is , there 's people out there want to kill me , and the authorities let you in here and give you access to more than we will probably ever get . |
| 24 | This will cause a depreciation of the exchange rate ( assuming the authorities allow it to ) . |
| 25 | The waveforms look something like Fig 15 . |
| 26 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 27 | Get down there quickly , before the cops beat you to it . ’ |
| 28 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 29 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 30 | Long lines of windows in the hull and a large window in the transom provide plenty of natural light in the stern saloon and the cabins . |