Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But remember ’ — he had lifted an arm now and was prodding with his forefinger as though pointing to the furthest corners of the country ( he was feeling the attention of the crowd and letting it recharge his energy ) , ‘ the people are mightier than a lord . ’ |
| 2 | Although a common seal may still be used to execute a document , a document signed by a director and the secretary , or by two directors , and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company will have the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . |
| 3 | This , however , can not be correct since section 36A , inserted by the 1989 Act , provides that a company need not have a common seal and that whether it has or not ‘ a document signed by a director and the secretary of the company or by two directors and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company has the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . ’ |
| 4 | Locating the feeding routes of bream is no less important when float fishing from a punt than when legering from the bank . |
| 5 | The launch held her place , riding the swell as though held to the Wheel by invisible ties . |
| 6 | I can not get myself to react with critical coolness towards this music ; every tissue , every nerve vibrates in me and it is a long time since I had such an enduring feeling of rapture as when listening to the latter overture . " |
| 7 | As Philippe de Mézières wrote in the late fourteenth century , some may well have come from those members of the lower nobility who did not normally go to war except when summoned by the king , but who , in certain cases , were now being forced to take up arms as a business . |
| 8 | So Eliot , in ‘ ode ’ , a poem dealing with a tortured wedding night , has a protagonist apparently lacking in all inspiration except that coming from the ‘ bubbling ’ of a river described as ‘ mephitic ’ . |
| 9 | For an organ larger than this , there is no limit except that imposed by the customer 's ability to pay . |
| 10 | The cripple haunted his bridge as though chained to the spot . |
| 11 | Any attempt , for example , to engineer a rate of unemployment except that associated with the natural rate of output will be thwarted . |
| 12 | Such troops sustain damage as if hit by the Fanatics |
| 13 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 14 | Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side . |
| 15 | Without saying anything further , he shifted his enormous shoulders more comfortably against the door-frame as though settled for the rest of the day , and moved his eyes to her mouth almost as though he was waiting for her to speak again , she thought , feeling thoroughly disgruntled . |
| 16 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |