Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 32 | It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’ |
| 33 | It 's the news that keeps you on the move . |
| 34 | The driving force that keeps you on the road best . |
| 35 | One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road . |
| 36 | The acquisition of a skill is a tortuous process that takes us through the following sequence : |
| 37 | Within that pack there is erm er if you like the book that takes you through the slides that have been put up there today . |
| 38 | • If you make a move that takes you beyond the last circle on the grid , you must count back to complete that move before continuing forward with the next move . |
| 39 | In doing a campaign that takes you around the country on tour you may visit the local newspaper , talk to a consumer group , make a speech over a special lunch for local important big-wigs and then do an interview on the local radio . |
| 40 | ‘ I have kind of an idea that gets everybody off the hook . |
| 41 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 42 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 43 | Their new single , Family , includes all these elements and could be the one that breaks them into the big time . |
| 44 | Although we do not yet have a proper quantum theory of gravity , let alone one that unifies it with the other physical interactions , we do have an idea of some of the features it should have . |
| 45 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 46 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 47 | Perhaps because no one knows better than our front-line ambassadors the warm , comfortable realm that awaits you behind the Four Seasons door . |
| 48 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 49 | The answer is that this third human state has a special feature that distinguishes it from the other two ( the inner and the outer states ) in that it is a zone for cultural experience or creative playing . |
| 50 | It is the overdetermined character of the materialist dialectic that distinguishes it from the Hegelian dialectic . |
| 51 | Johnny Rotten sings flat , the song is laughably naive , and the overall feeling is of a third-rate Who imitation , but even so there 's a certain neurotic aggression that distinguishes it from the rest of this week 's insipid bunch . ’ |
| 52 | MURDER , love affairs , violence , robberies , mounting debts … our soap operas are packed full of every gloomy scenario that surrounds us in the real world . |
| 53 | Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence . |
| 54 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 55 | If you go along to a good quality golf course they have the score card a planner but they also have a little script that tells you about the hole . |
| 56 | Some LEAs ( notably ILEA ) have tried to present examination results in a way that relates them to the ability of the school 's intake . |
| 57 | ‘ I suppose that lets us off the hook , ’ Lucinda offered . |
| 58 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 59 | A presence that disturbs me with the joy |
| 60 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |