Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 2 | but , she did say she did this that and the other thing as well you see , but there 's nobody knows anything about the hall in its new state as you do |
| 3 | Because erm in her her differences in her erm behaviour towards Hastings towards Tony , like she 's she chases him off the stage one point Tony and then she sort of turn round and be all charming sort of . |
| 4 | ‘ My guess is she hides it in the undergrowth . ’ |
| 5 | erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
| 7 | It 's what gets us through the day . ’ |
| 8 | That 's what has them on the run although , in the end , they 'll be forced to give birth . |
| 9 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 10 | Likewise religion corresponds to Truth ; it is what binds us to the Truth . |
| 11 | But questions of this sort are not just matters of zoological taxonomy , they are also the necessary central problem for all religious systems and this is what brings them within the scope of social anthropology . |
| 12 | The fact that it aims to provide a systematic account of time use is what distinguishes it from the literary diary . |
| 13 | The absence of reverence for wine is what endears one to the Italian approach . |