Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 2 | I would n't mind , but it 's normally me that goes and sleeps on the settee and I do n't see why I should . |
| 3 | The reef 's new status , granted by the UN International Maritime Organisation , will enable the Australian government to insist that ships that pass through the reef carry a pilot . |
| 4 | All other working pages are text pages which contain material that reinforces and expands on the handouts . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you never heard of the Geimhreadh 's pincer hands that hold her victim 's phallus in place and have you never heard of her darting pronged tongue that licks and pierces into the shaft of her victim 's phallus ? ’ said the Robemaker , softly and insinuatingly . |
| 6 | In any such change , there are three states that must be dealt with : ( 1 ) the present state , which is things as they are ; ( 2 ) the future state , which is what the changed condition will be ; and ( 3 ) the transitional state , which is the one that exists when evolving from the present to the future — the state during which the actual changing takes place . |
| 7 | As a moraine-dammed valley is exposed , water flowing in seasonal torrents accumulates on the valley floor , forming a lake that lengthens and broadens as the ice face retreats . |
| 8 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 9 | Here it is important to distinguish between ephemeral sedimentation that comes and goes with the seasons and permanent sedimentation that actually accumulates and stays . |
| 10 | Do n't panic about a squint that comes and goes in the first few months , though , as this is quite normal and happens because she has n't developed binocular vision yet . |
| 11 | Uneaten food , and anything once living that dies or lies in the tank will break down in a similar fashion . |
| 12 | And goes and sits in the corner . |
| 13 | 1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance . |
| 14 | Another ‘ subcultural ’ -type theory that stresses deprivation and develops and draws on the work of Merton and Cohen is that of Cloward and Ohlin . |
| 15 | Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love . |
| 16 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 17 | It filed for a $300m offering of convertible debt and says that proceeds from the sale of the convertible junior subordinated notes will be used to repay part of its existing 9.5% subordinated debentures . |
| 18 | The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees . |
| 19 | The fabrication of an African persona is reflexive ; an extraordinary meditation on the self ; a powerful exploration of the fears and desires that reside in the writerly conscious . |
| 20 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 21 | At that time it was the idea of looking out over fields of swaying poppies and cornflowers that appealed to the Prince . |
| 22 | The interdigestive cycle of motor activity , or migrating motor complex , starts from the lower oesophagus and migrates but ends in the terminal ileum . |