Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the novel is intended to be is a bit of fun — something that you might pick up at an airport and that takes you through the journey in a pleasant fashion . |
| 2 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 3 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |
| 4 | And that brings me to the point that was made er by Mr and others on the other side of the table , that the structure plan does have a policy of a continued reduction in migration . |
| 5 | And that brings us to the ext example . |
| 6 | And that brings us to the end of another week on Scotland Today . |
| 7 | And that brings us to the end of Scotland Today for this evening . |
| 8 | And that brings us to the end of another hectic half hour . |
| 9 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 10 | And that leaves us with the second alternative . |
| 11 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 12 | Cos that allows him to the cost ? |
| 13 | In paranoid disorders however , it is the son 's passive relation to the father that threatens to unman him , and this expresses itself in the characteristic symptom of paranoia — delusions produced by the mechanism of projection . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 16 | But my argument will be double-edged ; and this brings me to the second reason for discounting ‘ higher learning ’ as a chapter title . |
| 17 | And this brings us to the end of our clockwise tour of Thrush Green and our brief meetings with the chief inhabitants . |
| 18 | Nor was the scene confined to the city : half the picture was outside the wall , a stretch of which was shown near the middle ; and this brings us to the second great change , the opening up of space . |
| 19 | And this brings us to the next chapter . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , there appears to be no way of choosing with any confidence amongst these dates : if 870 recommends itself on the grounds that there is relatively early authority for it , for example , the remarkable preciseness of Babinger 's unsupported date in 873 can not be ignored . |
| 21 | Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore . |
| 22 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 23 | It also provides a clinical procedure for treating some psychological conditions , but this takes us beyond the scope of the present book . |
| 24 | But this brings me to the cardinal rule when buying — always choose a house which will be easy to sell . |
| 25 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 26 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 27 | That whole family is a living contradiction , consuming anything and anyone that comes within its reach , one of them smiling in your face while another stabs you in the back . |