Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey of Rutland not only covers a complete , if miniature , county , but also records the status of virtually every inhabitant in all but three townships ; although the subsidy rolls contribute useful supplementary material we will , for the present purpose , restrict ourselves to the muster book . |
| 2 | This involves the donor in only a single signature on a simple form which any RNLI regional office , or headquarters , can supply . |
| 3 | This comparison of procedures reveals that the CMI Rules ' receipt message plays the role of both a paper based dock or mate 's receipt and of a preliminary bill of lading . |
| 4 | Widdowson ( 1983 ) suggests that this planning process can be seen as a " covert interaction " in which the writer plays the role of both the initiator and recipient of the discourse ( i.e. speaker and hearer ) . |
| 5 | In each case it is the lack of understanding which constitutes the inauthenticity of either the faith or the doubt . |
| 6 | This obviously begs the question of when a duty exists . |
| 7 | ‘ Success breeds success ’ goes the saying in just the same way that behaviour breeds behaviour . |
| 8 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
| 9 | If future policy decides to abandon the flat-rate community charge , this reopens the question of how a more progressive local tax should be designed . |
| 10 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |
| 11 | The structures of related polyamides do not always lead to this neat arrangement of intermolecular bond formation ; for example the geometry of an extended nylon-7,7 chain allows the formation of only every second possible hydrogen bond when the chains are aligned and fully extended . |
| 12 | The accused steals the grouse from both the poacher and the landowner . |
| 13 | Walter Ruttmann 's film from the apogee of German Expressionist cinema uses the cinema in exactly the way a poet uses language to give a dynamic , reverberant and meaningful portrait of one of the world 's great cities and its people . |
| 14 | I have suggested a way of learning which uses the skills of both the teacher and the trained nurse in the clinical environment , working together to improve patient care . |
| 15 | Money spins the wheel from where the Bonanzas sit , and nobody lifts a finger to do anything without figuring the percentage angle . |
| 16 | As it happens , the Nuer have a social organization which is very similar to that of the Lugbara : so alike are they , indeed , that Middleton describes the Lugbara with virtually the same terminology as his teacher , Evans-Pritchard , uses in describing Nuer society . |
| 17 | Answer guide : This raises the question of when the earnings process is complete and in this case it would seem that the process is not going to be completed therefore no entries need to be made . |
| 18 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 19 | Because we do not know who owns Delion we do not know who bought the property , which raises the question of why the purchasers want to remain anonymous . |
| 20 | But that just raises the question of where the energy came from . |
| 21 | The observed structure of apoR2 raises the question of how a polypeptide can fold into a globular protein with an interior of several carboxyl residues ( Fig. 3 b ) , a situation that may be analogous to carboxyl group clustering in , for example , some ion channels . |
| 22 | The relevant economic argument that reaches the notice of even the ill-informed newspaper reader is the proposition that high taxation , or indeed any taxation at all , is undesirable because it limits the extent to which people work , produce and add to the ‘ wealth of the nation ’ . |
| 23 | Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works . |
| 24 | The latter requires the agreement of both the appellant and the authority and even where this is so , the Secretary of State can decide that a hearing is desirable — for example , if there is much local feeling on the issue . |
| 25 | LOOK , NO HANDS : Bryan plays the pool fool for little Princess Eugenie as he takes the plunge without even a glance over his shoulder to see if there 's any trouble lurking |
| 26 | Finally , consider the word " quotes " in the third sentence , and the common metaphorical senses of " trademark " ( meaning " a distinctive feature or characteristic " ) and " ammunition " ( meaning " some powerful means of support " ) ; these words introduce an element of informality — especially " quotes " , which is a marked alternative to " quotations " — which pulls the paragraph in exactly the opposite direction from the upward shift in register sought in " marital union " . |
| 27 | And David in , that psalm which we read earlier , in psalm twenty three , he paints the picture of how the good shepherd , not only seeks out the lost sheep but once he has brought him back , once he has rescued the , a lost sheep , he care for it . |
| 28 | The immense width of the two main roads , one with a minimum width of practically a hundred feet and the other of sixty-six feet , reflects the state of even the main roads before the days of the turnpikes and above all of the scientific roadmaking initiated by Metcalf and Macadam in the late eighteenth century . |
| 29 | This might be an understandable reaction in someone who has endured an afternoon of flag and whistle , but it misses the point of why the law was framed . |
| 30 | The second part of our series on the agency tells the story of how the photographs were taken , and how the agency came to own them . |