Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he the sort that he actually wants one , or has he bowed to the advisers that he 's got from the War Office and so on who say the soldiers need it ? |
| 2 | ‘ Or does she object to the coloured races in general ? ’ |
| 3 | Is it when a person needs help to lift a glass to his or her lips , or does it depend on the degree of dehydration ? |
| 4 | Does the amp respond or does it buckle under the strain ? |
| 5 | Or does it start on the approach side of the roundabout ? |
| 6 | Does the spider begin in the centre and move outwards down the spiral , or does it begin at the outside and work inwards ? |
| 7 | Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ? |
| 8 | Nor has it dealt with the question of a new citizenship law , though the Solingen atrocity has revived debate about this . |
| 9 | A British company that has nothing to do with the American rail network , Amtrak is expanding and wants to recruit about 200 new franchisees in the next year . |
| 10 | ‘ When I look back I wish that had n't happened , because out of that comes the written situation and something develops that has nothing to do with the game at all . ’ |
| 11 | How can you say that has nothing to do with the way you feel ? |
| 12 | While some associated with it tend to pose in sunglasses or growl into walkie-talkies and get totally caught up in the three-day whirl that has nothing to do with the real world , the contest , over the years , has given joy , drama and emotion . |
| 13 | As you can see , though each of these poems ‘ simply ’ describes a moment that has something to do with the natural world , other thoughts and messages come through at the same time . |
| 14 | It is that position of fundamental weakness and poverty that forces them to apply for the Government 's student loans . |
| 15 | If you go for the higher limit , then that allows you to go with the growth of approximately three hundred thousand . |
| 16 | They might accept that they are a privileged group , receiving an assurance that frees them to act in the world without fear and uncertainty . |
| 17 | In both novels the heroine undertakes a search for her identity that requires her to navigate between the attractions of two men who represent two different attitudes to life . |
| 18 | An important rule when beating into a current flowing across the upwind leg is always to sail the tack that takes you uptide of the mark first . |
| 19 | That was the problem facing the author of this utility , which is why he wrote this little program that lets you type in the error code , the description is then printed to screen . |
| 20 | It marks the event and the behaviour we all become party to , namely attending a funeral service , sending flowers , writing a letter of condolence , and whatever else it might be that helps us cope with the situation . |
| 21 | My audition for Leeds was a sight reading job and it 's something that you get from drama training — work that helps you cope with the sight reading at an audition — yes . |
| 22 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 23 | Mr Tim , by the way , does not acknowledge the modern concept of the language laboratory ; nor does he cleave to the antique idea of the library of books ; still less does he believe in separating students of different ability . |
| 24 | Leeds City Council does not expect within its plan period nor does it expect within the period of the North Yorkshire alterations , commuting will disappear . |
| 25 | This view was not widely held , nor does it accord with the observational data on the men 's practice while doing beat duty . |
| 26 | Nor does it apply to the colliding electromagnetic wave solution of Bell and Szekeres ( 1974 ) in which impulsive gravitational waves are generated by the collision . |
| 27 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 28 | Nor does it deal with the historical obligation for British Rail to maintain hundreds of listed buildings . |
| 29 | The cut is the figure under or over par that determines who qualifies for the final two rounds of a tournament . |
| 30 | I do n't want to ‘ politicize ’ the homeless in a way that makes them look like the front-line infantry fighting a barbaric government , which is a line some people have taken , simply because when you 're out there , it just is n't like that . |