Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until quite recently the outstanding problem with many recordings of music before 1600 has been that they reveal the lack of tradition behind their vocal and instrumental practice and therefore suffer from an inevitable slide towards solipsism . |
| 2 | A disadvantage of team teaching , of course , has been that it required the teacher , normally an individualistic person accustomed to complete authority within the four walls of his classroom , to sink his authority and his subject speciality within a group . |
| 3 | What matters is that they find the system simple to use and it certainly simplifies the practitioner 's lot . |
| 4 | What matters is whether we have the creative drive to generate new production . |
| 5 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
| 6 | We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first . |
| 7 | Legal aid is not available in any form for industrial tribunal hearings erm so what I usually say is that we assist the client up to the stage where s it means going er to the tribunal itself . |
| 8 | As to whether national governments are still ultimately in charge , the only matter left to be resolved is whether they retain the means to call a halt to the whole process by which law-making is rapidly ceasing to be their responsibility . |
| 9 | The most important thing in socialising is that you make the time and spend the effort to keep those friends that you do have . |
| 10 | A good application form can be helpful but what has to be considered is whether it stops the candidate from expressing him/herself . |
| 11 | it hurts are when we grab the moment for ourselves , nearly — the corniest sunset , taste of a lover 's tears , a fistful of snow |
| 12 | What erm happens is that we obtain the toxin from erm from the from a serpentarium . |
| 13 | In fact , what inevitably happens is that someone buys the house for the floor space of the extensions , seeing the opportunity for yet further building in the grounds , where planning permission would never normally be given . |
| 14 | Alright , logging the data does n't change the nature of the data , what it does do is that it re-scales the data , okay so the only thing that 's , that 's , that 's changed by logging , right , is the scale of the cr is the vertical scale on the graph , right , but essentially we are still trying to model the same series and N T C is essentially the same series as T C. |
| 15 | The D R one A is currently an excellent er tactical reconnaissance aircraft , all weather , at night etcetera and er it will go on well into the next century so there 's no great hurry to make a decision er one of the first points has got ta be decided is whether we carry the reconnaissance equipment in a pod under the aircraft replacing some of the other weapons or whether we try to build it in and er but taking first things first we have to get the requirement sorted out . |
| 16 | I think companies certainly are interested in creating the right impression , in in fact in creating the right er , environment , and they are willing , of course , to pay a a price , but the argument er , which you put is if you threaten the companies existence , right . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , the first thing I noticed is that it omits the date of birth . |
| 18 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 19 | What happened was that I did the work and received not a word from anybody about it . |
| 20 | What I would suggest is that you seize the opportunity to buy … while the price is right . |
| 21 | What the Test & County Cricket Board must decide is whether they want the Minors in or not . |
| 22 | The second could have been that whoever ordered the manuscript took seriously Rameau 's silly claim that the keyboard part was self-sufficient and that no one hearing a solo performance of this music would guess that anything was missing . |
| 23 | What Lord Wilberforce was saying was that one examines the content and not the form of a restraint and if there appears 'some quite independent purpose " behind the restraint , ie a purpose outside the essence of the agreement , then the doctrine applies . |
| 24 | All we ask is that you use the ticket within a 60-day period between January 1st , 1990 and December 31st , 1990 and that you purchase it before arriving in Thailand . |
| 25 | so all I knew was that she got the divorce and |
| 26 | All that means is that he puts the letters into a plastic bag so they wo n't get eaten by beetles or woodworm or whatever . |
| 27 | This requires you to utilise the JMP-1 's output mapping , and all it means is that you tell the JMP-1 that every time it selects , say , patch 6 , information is sent to the effects processor to change its current patch to whatever patch you require . |
| 28 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 29 | The Navaho Jospehites were all young , as young as he had been when he joined the Sons and painted his face to strike a blow at the heart of the white man 's world . |
| 30 | She only realised how tense she had been when she replaced the receiver and found the palm of her hands covered in a fine film of perspiration . |