Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a construction fits the few facts given in the early biographical sources and such facts as have emerged from the recently published documentary material in a way that the traditional account does not . |
| 2 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 3 | The former 's idealistically active audience confronts the latter 's picture of passive consumers , which is no more than an abstraction . |
| 4 | Now , everyone confronts the same challenge , and Mr Lang is looking for consensus . |
| 5 | Ltd. v. B.O.A.C. [ 1955 ] A.C. 169 , 191 , Lord Reid stated that if the arguments are fairly evenly balanced ( not that I believe they are in this case ) , that interpretation should be chosen which involves the least alteration of the existing law . |
| 6 | The social reality of language use always involves the latter , interactive process even though the participants may act ‘ as if ’ it does not . |
| 7 | Somatic hybridisation , which involves the same or different species to produce a new cell with two sets of chromosomes , is also being developed to produce new crop plants . |
| 8 | The system involves the same military satellites used in the Gulf war by the Allies to keep track of vehicle movements . |
| 9 | All in all , being an under sixteen-year-old mother has little official recognised status at all , even though this involves the same care and costs as for an older mother . |
| 10 | The change also raises important theoretical questions because reading by touch involves the same cognitive and linguistic skills as visual reading but uses a system which differs physically and in modality . |
| 11 | But this apparent escape is only another version of the dual aspect theory and inherits the latter 's problems . |
| 12 | The Pakistani today plays the former British champion Geoff Williams for a place in the main draw . |
| 13 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 14 | ‘ Every club plays the same , banging it upfield . ’ |
| 15 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 16 | This licence plays the same part in relation to seamen 's canteens as a licence granted under Part It of the Act in relation to licensed premises . |
| 17 | One of the most obvious examples of this principle of ‘ statement and change ’ is the old concerto grosso form , where the main orchestra , or ‘ tutti ’ , always plays the same musical substance , each statement being separated by the solo ‘ concertino ’ group playing something different , usually of a virtuoso character . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the left hand plays the same rhythms in the opposite order . |
| 19 | tractor plays the same gramophone record |
| 20 | Alan Byrne is a central midfield player who plays the same style of game of our recently lost friend DB . |
| 21 | ‘ Peake plays the same way before a 5,000 crowd or a 50,000 crowd . |
| 22 | Whitaker , the European champion , rides the same three horses as last year — Next Milton , Gammon and Hopscotch . |
| 23 | Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky . |
| 24 | A fountain pen in Paris fulfils the same sort of emblematic function as a car and may cost almost as much : all kinds of social and identity messages are tied up in it . |
| 25 | In Scotland the Registered Establishments ( Scotland ) Act ( 1987 ) fulfils the same function . |
| 26 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 27 | The loss of anyone close and deeply loved rouses the same feelings of anger . |
| 28 | One of the most important aspects of domestic security , yet one that receives the least attention , is that of key security . |
| 29 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
| 30 | Use of the Maxial PoS terminal requires the modification of the installation 's central PoS software , which receives the same string of characters as that for a transaction entered through a conventional keyboard . |