Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed this to the porter who watched over the entrance turnstile , and Diane produced her staff ticket . |
| 2 | It is one of the nicest shows anyone could do because of the response you get from the viewers . ’ |
| 3 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The general rule with regard to these provisions might be said to be that the settlor will not avoid tax on the income which arises from the capital which he has settled unless he and his wife are excluded from all possible benefit . |
| 5 | Although the elderly do not have to pay income tax on the value of a house which they own and occupy , if they let any Part of it , furnished or unfurnished , the income they receive from the letting must be included in their tax return . |
| 6 | The Region 's policy of positive discrimination is impressive and commendable for the opportunity it provides for the provision of education in deprived areas . |
| 7 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 8 | Unless the MPs who spoke to TODAY reporters yesterday were lying , Government Whips used the tactics of the Mafia to get the majority they wanted on the Maastricht vote . |
| 9 | Their lives have a totally separate base , their vital points of reference are distinctly different from the majority who dwell in the more materially blessed urban areas . |
| 10 | The period between the wars was an unhappy one for the British people in general , and particularly for the majority who belonged to the industrial working class . |
| 11 | Right at the very beginning , in the prayer which arises from the memory of Christ 's anguish in the garden of Gethsemane when the narrator remembers " swattest blod for angwysche " , the shorter version identifies this sweat with that which marks the healing and turning point of human fever conflating it with the sweat of human anguish struggling against evil . |
| 12 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 13 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for the sympathy he expressed to the families of those killed and injured , but for his support for the courageous efforts of the security forces . |
| 14 | So they had to start contacting the er What 's the terminology we use at the moment ? |
| 15 | He has a senior wife who lays the first egg in the scrape he makes in the ground for her . |
| 16 | Kobena Mercer and Isaac Julien are right to emphasize that the complexity which arises at the junction of race and sexuality is something which ‘ some people simply do n't want to talk about ’ . |
| 17 | In this sense the picture of the housewife which emerges in the present study not only bears on an understanding of the situation of women in society today ; it also illuminates one face of urban family life . |
| 18 | This motion is about Labour Party accountability to our own union members and not about our accountability to a handful of M Ps , so whatever the result of the er particular , er Labour Party links debate we 've just had , it 's still important to consider the practical er effects of the link we have with the Labour Party locally . |
| 19 | Fortunately , the bias against other accents and dialects has waned in recent years and today they are appreciated for the variety they bring to the language . |
| 20 | Universities are commonly asked odd questions , such as why bananas are yellow , how hedgehogs mate , and why water goes in the direction it does down the plughole . |
| 21 | Simply put , the success of immigrant students depends directly on the support they get in the classroom . |
| 22 | It may or may not result in the board of the offeror company retaining control , depending on the voting rights they control and the support they get from the enlarged body of shareholders . |
| 23 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 24 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 25 | I think that really speaks volumes in terms of the support we get within the school and within the community ’ . |
| 26 | He deserves the support we given from the Treasury and from Europe . ’ |
| 27 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 28 | Redmond was overwhelmed by the support he received from the British public during and since the Olympics and asked to send a message through the Daily Mirror . |
| 29 | ‘ But all I needed to do was look at the support I got from the club and the fans when we were at the bottom last season . |
| 30 | If its greatest danger lies in the Israeli threat to push yet more Palestinians across the river Jordan and in a consequent revolution , Jordan 's greatest asset lies in the support it receives from the West , anxious to bolster Jordan as a ‘ moderate ’ in the Arab world so long as the Middle East conflict persists . |