Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The income we receive form legacies is used to support our extensive welfare facilities which include a residential home for the disabled , convalescent homes and sheltered housing .
2 The ideology which gives substance to this culture is based on a twin belief in the uniqueness of the magisterial role itself , and also the uniqueness of each individual case .
3 George beckoned and I followed through a door into the heat of the rear section of the engines , the section containing among other things the boiler which provided steam to heat the whole train .
4 Thus , each District became accountable to the Board of Education for the observance of the Regulations , for the efficient conduct of instruction together with the organisation of the provision which included approval of tutors and syllabuses .
5 ‘ Before the hurricane we had rainforest everywhere , ’ Anne said .
6 The regression itself took place on Joyce 's second visit ; the first was used to teach her deep relaxation .
7 The evidence of this is the change which takes place within our own hearts .
8 ISAAC ASIMOV , the writer who believed science fiction frequently preceded reality , died in New York yesterday of heart and kidney failure .
9 After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani .
10 Commenting on the sentence He saw flight to be impossible , Cotte observes ( p. 71 ) : Ici , pas de perception physique , mais un jugement sur flight , posé avant be impossible , qui lui est attribué au terme d'une réflexion ; to s'impose car la deuxième prédication n'est pas un donné perçu globalement et existant indépendamment de see , mais une construction do nt l'actualité n'est posée qu'en guise de conclusion .
11 The genius who turned life on Earth into a virtual-reality computer game for the Gods .
12 At lunchtime they pulled into a lay-by for a picnic ; and later in the afternoon they had tea in a transport café where three lorry drivers stared at them , whispered to one another and laughed .
13 In the afternoon we had tea in a house full of the most beautiful women .
14 Cos in the afternoon she does catering from the pub and then the evening she just works behind the bar .
15 Hugh Despenser the younger had already petitioned the king on the grounds that the charges against him were erroneous and his condemnation illegal , particularly because so few prelates were present in the parliament which gave judgement .
16 Milarepa , the macho trickster , the hermit of Mount Kailas , the monk who brought Buddhism to Tibet , with his karate kicks and his song battles with the priests of the old Bon religion .
17 Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later !
18 The hotel has many excellent sporting opportunities , and the resort itself offers tennis , golf and horse riding .
19 As the Master of the Rolls has acknowledged , this case raises issues of constitutional importance , issues which go far beyond the facts of the case which gives rise to them .
20 Truth is the only sufficient answer faith can give doubt , for it is the truth of the matter , the facts of the case which give faith its solid foundation .
21 ‘ The material facts of the case which give rise to this reference are as follows .
22 The individuals who comprised the Chaloner family varied as greatly in their characters as did the members of the parish gentry , from Alan Chaloner ( 1603–84 ) , the blacksmith who took pride in his work , to his elder brother Richard , whom Gough described as ‘ an untowardly liver , very idle and extravagant , endeavouring to supply his neccssytyes rather by stealeing than by his honest labour ’ .
23 the part of the computer which stores information for immediate access .
24 The reasons for belonging into class II may be numerous : you can not formulate the problem , you can not solve the resulting equations analytically , the computer you have access to is not big enough , etc. , etc .
25 Here there was an 82 per cent turn-out for the referendum which took place on 2 June 1992 , when the Treaty on European Union was rejected by 50.7 per cent to 49.3 per cent .
26 Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers .
27 In the mirror over the washbasin she applies pancake makeup , lipstick and eyeliner , and combs her hair .
28 Er and I well remember er even as early as nineteen nineteen the election which took place immediately after world war one , I remember being er sort of dragged round the streets , you know , er I think it was enjoyable , I do n't know er by my mother , er attending these street meetings , er I I I very well remember it because I had a a a new coat , a new coat for for er for this particular venture , and er the two things you know are fairly deep in my memory .
29 This is usually achieved by having an inspection chamber — fitted with a manhole cover — wherever a connection is made to the drain , wherever there is a junction between drains or wherever the drain itself changes direction or gradient .
30 Rather we have to ask what was the experience which gave rise to the beliefs and which they encapsulate , however inadequately .
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