Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing ; ah , the fredonna tree whose roots grow at the tips of its branches , and whose fibres assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner ; ah , the opera house now overgrown by jungle . |
| 2 | The referendum question , which gained a 61.4 per cent " yes " vote ( 81.6 per cent turnout ) , asked whether Tatarstan should be " a sovereign state , a subject of international law , which builds its relations with the Russian Federation … on an equal basis " . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've told yer before , 'e pays less than any ovver firm in Bermondsey an' 'e sacks 'is workers fer the least fing. 'E would n't tolerate the union fer ages an' as soon as any of 'is workers tried ter get the union in they were put off . |
| 4 | Any extinguishing agent which develops its effects in the same direction must be capable of overtaking the flame front if it is to have an acceptable limiting influence on potential damage . |
| 5 | They , exclusive of all other species , are free to choose , and in the final analysis , that instinct which has its origins in the mammalian family life is most likely to take precedence , and humans will choose to live with the relatively small family group as the ultimate refuge . |
| 6 | The second myth is also seen in an early poem , The Rape of Lucrece , which has its origins in the story of Tarquin 's rape . |
| 7 | The standard of living is another key measure which has its origins in the same source . |
| 8 | The third party which has its roots in the political movements that arose before August 1991 is the Party of Labour ( PT ) . |
| 9 | Empowerment , which has its roots in the US , has taken on new significance recently as American corporations try to find a way to compete more effectively with the Japanese . |
| 10 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school perhaps falls into a tradition of paternalistic state intervention in the cause of social welfare , which has its roots in the nineteenth century ; a tradition in which the values of the dominant class have been imposed on the poor for their own good , and in which the children of the poor have been removed to make a ‘ fresh start ’ in what were adjudged more favourable circumstances than those of their origins . |
| 11 | First , there is the equal opportunities strand , which has its roots in the social democratic ‘ race ’ interventions of the 1960s . |
| 12 | ‘ Bad ’ which has its roots in the Black English of the US jazz scene in 1928 is now in the Oxford English Dictionary meaning ‘ very good ’ . |
| 13 | The difficulty of probing questions like those above with the help of community-member informants provides one incentive for using another approach : Conversation Analysis ( CA ) , which has its roots in the tradition of sociology known as ethnomethodology . |
| 14 | The best way to mimic an earthquake is to place a building on a shaking table which subjects its Foundations to the same force as the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake . |
| 15 | Currently , Sun Alliance provides such insurance through the Legal Protection Group , which advertises its services to the public . |
| 16 | The minute registering of ‘ the flickerings of that innermost flame which flashes its messages through the brain' , to use Virginia Woolf 's words , works best on ordinary experience rather than extraordinary — walking along a street , preparing a meal , knitting a stocking . |
| 17 | Although we are often successful in securing accommodation , it is a problem which stretches our resources to the full and we are urgently raising money to buy emergency short term accommodation for people with HIV/AIDS . |
| 18 | I have some Capricorn , which keeps my feet on the ground . |
| 19 | This is probably one of the main factors which creates his effects in the poem . |
| 20 | Appeals from decisions in more serious cases ( heard originally by the Crown Court ) go to the Court of Appeal ( criminal division ) , which draws its members from the Lord Chief Justice , the Lords Justices of Appeal and the judges of the High Court . |
| 21 | The one where you end up buying , out of guilt , an electric toothbrush costing £89 which tickles your gums to the point where you giggle helplessly in your bathroom , alone , and the family get over-concerned and leave jars of Passiflora in obvious places . |
| 22 | This problem is best approached by a distribution of money to departments which reflects their needs within the framework of meeting the overall school aims . |
| 23 | His installations , such as Roxy 's , which features decapitated whores with mechanical pelvic movements in a brothel , and The Back Seat Dodge — ‘ 38 , which puts its viewers in the place of voyeurs of a necking couple whose heads are melted into one , deal naturalistically with the seamy and discarded side of social life . |
| 24 | after discussion with their Course Tutor they are able to select a programme of units which satisfies their needs from the elective programme . |
| 25 | just off hanging over the welly boots when somebody puts their feet in the welly boots they get a bit of shock ! |
| 26 | As the article explains , Mr Bailey 's inquiry was made on behalf of the Department of Transport which shares his services with the authority . |
| 27 | ‘ Howard love , all I get the tiniest bit cynical about is the way everyone closes his eyes to the truth . |
| 28 | Like all young girls , she has her favourites on the circuit . |
| 29 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 30 | She raises her eyes to the wonder of its beauty , sometimes tilting her head as if listening to the music echoing round her . |