Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have stripped off the patina of almost-respectable journalism , put back the earring , parted my hair in the middle to hide my own personal recession , exchanged the Marks and Spencer 's cords for 501s , the Oxford shirt for a Lloyd Cole cast-off black polo . |
| 32 | Er , I 'm sure we did n't put a brush through my hair in the bath . |
| 33 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 34 | After all , a guitar tech 's job has to depend on such accuracy , and if it were my job then I 'd rather put my faith in the R450 than a box-load of pocket tuners . |
| 35 | I 've been doing most of my cooking with the |
| 36 | My advantage over the rest of the managers is that I can manipulate my time more . |
| 37 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 38 | I am writing to express my views about the Graf/Seles situation . |
| 39 | Before expressing my views about the remaining issues , I think it helpful to set out shortly the general principles of law which are applicable to the Secretary of State 's decision-making process . |
| 40 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 41 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 42 | And since the frozen peas and firm bandaging were applied by the fair hands of a comely maiden , I began to think that perhaps I could reasonably update my views on the ankle , Eros-wise . |
| 43 | I was asked my views on the reshuffle . |
| 44 | I was also asked my views on the chairmanship of the party . |
| 45 | The Express , by contrast , detects unsheathed Conservative blades : ‘ Tory knives were out for the BBC … the Prime Minister is said to have told friends : ‘ my views on the BBC 's coverage are not printable . ’ |
| 46 | And stop worrying , I wo n't reveal my views on the drug to the twins . |
| 47 | I have been asked to give my views on the most important events and changes in the ‘ domain of art and artistic culture ’ over the last ten years , which I have agreed to do , as much out of friendship for the Giornale dell'Arte ( and its editor ) as out of vanity ( let's be honest ) . |
| 48 | I did , however , express my views on the construction and effect of the section which , it now appears , were at variance with the views of academic and other writers : see ‘ The Judge and the Competent Minor ’ by Andrew Bainham ( 1992 ) 108 L.Q.R. 194 , 198 ; ‘ Multiple Keyholders — Wardship and Consent to Medical Treatment ’ by Rosy Thornton [ 1992 ] C.L.J. 34 , 36 ; Doctors , Patients and the Law , ( 1992 ) , at pp. 60–61 ( Ian Kennedy ) , at p. 76 ( Lawrence Gostin ) and at pp. 156–157 ( Ian Dodds-Smith ) and Margaret Brazier , Medicine , Patients and the Law , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 345 . |
| 49 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 50 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 51 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 52 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 53 | The experience of coming from the north-east of England is an important influence on my views on the issue with which we are dealing this morning . |
| 54 | I think you will recall Mr my my views on the East Grinstead by-pass were not the same as those |
| 55 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 56 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 57 | I waited three days for the sun to come out but to no avail , so on a very grey , cloudy day I set my easel by the French doors , put my paints and brushes on a high stool next to me and started . |
| 58 | It may be an awareness of my married status ( of which my colleagues often jokingly remind me ) , or a way of squaring all my activities with the ethos of the KZ , or a simple boredom with the female face , but now my thrusts of love — so sudden , so hurried , so helpless , so hopeless — are exclusively directed at the source of universal sustenance and fruition . |
| 59 | I could have vomited with fear and had difficulty controlling my breathing at the silent horrors my master described . |
| 60 | But she did n't pity me ; she mimicked my accent in the play . |