Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have a feeling it might be easier to mull it over at the next meeting . |
| 2 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 3 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 4 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 5 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 6 | The front panel controls are identical for both channels , except for the centrally located stereo link switch ( pressing this hands everything over to the channel A controls ) and the power switch . |
| 7 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 8 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 9 | This takes us out of the realm of male-female sexual relationships into another sphere , where such bonds can be used for better communication between individuals , and to foster the link between teacher and pupil . |
| 10 | Then I remembered someone who could : the person could not stand cash , but was maybe prepared to put something up of the value of £500 . |
| 11 | It 's too high get it back on the chair ! |
| 12 | He hauled himself after her and Fenella gasped and half fell , half pulled herself over into the Robemaker 's wood-store , to be followed , a minute later , by a rather out-of-breath Caspar . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 14 | It is not necessary to do this to get something out of the exhibition . |
| 15 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 16 | George half carried , half dragged her back to the car . |
| 17 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 18 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 19 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 20 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 21 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 22 | This brings us on to the question of how do organizations assess the effectiveness of their advertising ? |
| 23 | This brings us on to the conditions in which the animals are kept . |
| 24 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |
| 25 | This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency . |
| 26 | This comment was not entirely facetious and this brings us back to the remarks I made earlier about erm the use of Tampax and the government trying to persuade women to erm use internal sanitary protection . |
| 27 | This brings us back to the importance of considering the functions which explanations serve in particular contexts . |
| 28 | This brings us back to the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist . |
| 29 | The problem ( and this brings us back to the Frankie story ) is what the disruption of consumption means . |
| 30 | The White Paper clearly indicates the government 's intention of shifting the balance of provision away from local authorities , and this brings us back to the mixed economy of welfare or welfare pluralism . |