Example sentences of "[noun prp] the [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G-Loc the coin-op only worked because of its fast , exciting graphics and stomach-churning gyroscopic cabinet . |
| 2 | But it must be admitted that this is not a very strong distinction , for in Dudley and Stephens the jury also found that ‘ at the time of the act there was no sail in sight , nor any reasonable prospect of relief ’ ; and it would seem that if the law recognises necessity as a defence it should proceed upon the facts as they appeared to the defendant at the time . |
| 3 | Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century , and changed round the terms , writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed , he proposed a living universe called ‘ Nature ’ described in terms of growth and organic life , which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was ‘ a white paper ’ , with no innate ideas , in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state ; in Locke the mind passively receives impressions from the senses , but in but in Wordsworth the mind actively perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world . |
| 4 | Against BC the gaps duly materialised and Joe Stanley , Va'Aiga Tuigamala — a pocket-battleship of a wing — Walter Little , Bruce Deans and Zinzan Brooke crossed for tries . |
| 5 | Throughout the early days of October the Allies blithely assumed that Antwerp could withstand investiture . |