Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not sufficient to justify the portrayal of Scotland as being out on a limb from the rest of Britain , either in its voting behaviour or the thinking that produces it . |
| 2 | Or the pole that keeps its compass in your hand |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd like to stay here all night , watch the stars come out , and the sun come up , and know that the air that touches your skin touches mine too . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 6 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 7 | If a policy is a complex and ambiguous phenomenon , with aspects that go ‘ too far ’ for some people and ‘ not far enough ’ for others , it is important to acknowledge that the dissensus that attends its ‘ birth ’ will continue to affect its implementation . |
| 8 | The reasons were simple : ‘ The British people are opposed to the sell-offs because they are more socially-responsible , more community-minded , more far-sighted , more patriotic than the Government that governs them . |
| 9 | It has five forward and five reverse speeds , is highly manoeuvrable , and weighs less than the battery that powers it . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's as if the skin that separates you from those horrible things in the newspaper has been ripped away , ’ says Alexandra Campbell , who six years ago was the victim of an attack in her own home . |
| 11 | And the worry that makes you all tense … |
| 12 | Yes , I hope he is , she 's apparently , she 's erm a designer and the girl that makes it she designs the latest beautiful hats and I thought to myself if they 're those tall , biggest , you know those tall sort of round sort of like bowler hats , |
| 13 | ‘ It represents a new way of thinking about the media world we live in and a new way of learning the skills of active engagement and critical reflection with all forms of modern media — television , video , film , radio , print , and the glue that binds them all together — advertising , ’ says Sister Elizabeth Thoman , Executive Director of the Center for Media and Values . |
| 14 | It 's also about organisations and the people within them — not just the patient who dies , but the doctors , nurses , auxiliaries , planners , administrators , clerks , and porters , and the noisy , chaotic interaction between them and the structure that surrounds them . |
| 15 | Table 16–1 shows that government spending , and the taxation that finances it , are now running at over 40 per cent of national income . |
| 16 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 17 | Read the extract below and the discussion that follows it . |
| 18 | True repose is not to be found in that great house , and the flag that proclaims it a ‘ happy home ’ lies to ‘ the lightsome air ’ . |
| 19 | Mains gas is supplied to around 85% of British homes : it 's available ‘ on tap ’ ( there 's no need to store it ready for use ) ; it 's clean ; it 's easy to control ; and the equipment that uses it needs very little maintenance . |
| 20 | And the bond that binds them together is the dynamic concept of the rule of God . |
| 21 | Sometimes my own phone rings , and the voice that answers it is here inside the room , emerging from somewhere about the point where my two shirtsleeves meet . |
| 22 | The faceless head and the zombie that spills its guts are created by means similar to those used for the death of Murphy in RoboCop . |
| 23 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 24 | The seduction scenes are beautifully timed by Dustin and a super-cool Bancroft , but they have enough ambivalence to suggest his guilt and her loneliness , and the emptiness that brings them together . |
| 25 | Resolving medical problems , admonishing the transgressors of rules , arbitrating disputes , cracking jokes with a deadpan expression on his face , Guruji is clearly the hub of this community and the force that holds it together . |
| 26 | Leaves , fronds , ferns and creepers glisten , wet and hot , and the earth that covers their roots is black , warm . |
| 27 | Clearly there is a relation between the body and the mind that inhabits it . |
| 28 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 29 | With one blow I could wipe that expression and the flesh that paints it right from their skulls . |
| 30 | It is important to have some clear basic understanding of the nature of bereavement and the grief that follows it . |