Example sentences of "[is] throw [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you have to do is throw in your lot with me . |
| 2 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 3 | There is an assumption that nurses will take anything that is thrown at them and that is dangerous , ’ Mr Rowden said . |
| 4 | In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’ |
| 5 | A just cause and it promises later electoral success , provided everything is thrown at the enemy and his swift defeat is assured . |
| 6 | If too much is thrown at them too quickly they lose confidence . |
| 7 | If what I 've got to do now is stand up to whatever is thrown at me , I 'll stand up . ’ |
| 8 | But if that is how God clothes the grass in the fields , which is there today , and tomorrow is thrown on the stove , will he not all the more clothe you ? |
| 9 | Aesthetic appreciation is thrown on the scrap heap . |
| 10 | But in view of the historical evidence for the resurrection , it would be more scientific to ask what light is thrown on the nature of the universe by the occurrence of such a resurrection . |
| 11 | Their remains , and gas that is thrown off other stars , will fall toward the black hole . |
| 12 | Basically , any set is dead until light is thrown onto it . ’ |
| 13 | Here , too , a certain ‘ colouring of the imagination ’ is thrown over an incident on Wordsworth 's journey home ; but is this enough to explain the strange story and the even more mysterious ‘ Part Second ’ ? |
| 14 | The ball is thrown to the number one and then to two and so on . |
| 15 | ‘ Then suddenly he is thrown to the wolves with the stigma of being incompetent , no good — even a fool . |
| 16 | I try to sleep , but can not , and go for a walk along the shore and on to a ridge from where Sør-Fugløya is thrown into relief by the blinding sun . |
| 17 | The willingness of England to welcome foreigners into its communities , celebrated during wartime in the pleasantries of Tawny Pipit ( 1944 ) , is thrown into question by the searing melodrama of Frieda ( 1947 ) , where the ‘ kindly , good-natured people ’ of Denfield become vicious xenophobes when the stranger amongst them is a blonde German girl . |
| 18 | And the willingness of the British aristocracy to yield place without a show of force is thrown into serious doubt by the calculated viciousness of Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) , as the disowned son of a noble line works murderously through the family tree in order to claim his birthright . |
| 19 | Secondly , the film suggests that Walter is thrown into a harrowing situation because his parents are dead , compounding the fears of many people that if they had a mentally handicapped child , there would be no-one to look after him or her if they died . |
| 20 | Lowe 's mother , who has built her life around her son as a zombie , is thrown into shock and confusion when her son awakens … |
| 21 | A single shoe is thrown into the air . |
| 22 | In this country , Delgado is thrown into competitions way above his age group to get the level of experience he needs . |
| 23 | When the largest and most ambitious building projects , the so-called ‘ palaces ’ , are interpreted as temples , that preoccupation with religion is thrown into even higher relief . |
| 24 | The necessity for scientists to find a justification for their endeavors is thrown into relief by this cartoon , which refers to a model exhibited before section B of the ‘ Mudfog Association , ’ a satirical creation of Charles Dickens who lampooned the British Association for the Advancement of Science with his ‘ Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything . ’ |
| 25 | What is ‘ noticeable ’ for the field man is thrown into relief by a conception of the ‘ normal ’ ( Goffman , 1971 ) . |
| 26 | The plight of the latter is thrown into even sharper relief by the juxtaposition of considerable wealth and severe deprivation which result from these developments . |
| 27 | The fact that the question is thrown into the perfect tense shows beyond doubt that no other facts than those stated in the first sentence are to be assumed . |
| 28 | One difficulty is that there is evidence indicating that hot spots can migrate with respect to each other at velocities of up to 20 mm a k This means that both hot spots can move under ‘ stationary ’ lithosphere and that the lack of motion of the African Plate is thrown into doubt because its past positions have been in part determined with respect to a reference frame of supposedly fixed hot spots . |
| 29 | A ball is thrown from player to player and the person in the middle must try to intercept it . |
| 30 | Its central theme concerns a young man , Colby Simpkins , who has entered the service of Sir Claude Mulhammer as a " confidential clerk " ; Mulhammer in fact believes Colby to be his illegitimate son , raised by a Mrs Guzzard in Teddington , but his paternity is thrown in doubt when Sir Claude 's wife , Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer , claims Colby as her own illegitimate son who had also been dispatched to Mrs Guzzard . |