Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 2 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 3 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 5 | The prosecution alleges this links them with the 3 lorry attacks . |
| 6 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 7 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 8 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 9 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 10 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 11 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 12 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 13 | This leads us into the next stage of whole-healing , namely diet . |
| 14 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 15 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 16 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 17 | This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew . |
| 18 | This takes you to the top of the crane and the two flags — well done , level complete . |
| 19 | This forewarns us of the issue of SELECTION which will be taken up in Chapter 2 . |
| 20 | This distinguishes them from the state agencies that provide health , education or other services on the basis of bureaucratic criteria such as need and entitlement , rather than as commodities to be bought and sold in the market . |
| 21 | At first sight it is a pretty enough spectacle to see a matchbox made ; one motion of the hands bends into shape the notched frame of the case , another surrounds it with the ready-pasted strip of painted wrapper , which , by long practice is fitted instinctively without a wrinkle , then the sandpaper or phosphorous paper , pasted ready beforehand , is applied and pressed on so that it sticks fast . |
| 22 | This prompts you for the input range and you type this in or select it by pointing . |
| 23 | This compensates us for the cost of processing your booking , advertising your holiday for sale , and reflects the risk that the holiday may remain unsold . |
| 24 | CD PHANTASM ( this moves you into the Phantasm directory ) |
| 25 | This puts them on the same footing as European growers after earlier anger and allegations that Ministry of Agriculture officials had agreed terms that disadvantaged UK grain growers . |
| 26 | This puts them in the international master category , with the equivalent of a fide rating of 2000 . |
| 27 | This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) . |
| 28 | When she is in her own home this puts her above the income support level of £44 personal allowance , plus a higher pensioner premium of £23.55 , totalling £67.55 . |
| 29 | All this reminds me of the ideas of Michel Foucault . |
| 30 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |