Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another backbencher was told his place on a Foreign Office organised trip would be withdrawn if he defied the Government . |
| 2 | From the Eleventh Dynasty , in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Two Ways , the Underworld has become a realm with many danger which must be conquered and which express the natural fear of death . |
| 3 | However , the difference between performance can be explained if we consider the relation between surface form and pragmatic distinctions . |
| 4 | They seemed to be paralysed as they encountered the hard wall of his chest , and his lips covered hers and met no resistance at all . |
| 5 | To get this allowance , fill in the form at the back of the special death certificate you 'll be given when you register the death . |
| 6 | It provides a general framework within which theories of cognitive abilities can be formulated and it suggests the form that specific theories of those abilities should take . |
| 7 | The interest accruing during the last coupon period ( 30 September 1987–30 March 1988 ) can be calculated once we know the final coupon payment , using . |
| 8 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 9 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 10 | The Absolon who mourns may be recalled when we see the suckling child in the cradle at the foot of the miller and his wife 's bed ( 4156 – 7 ) . |
| 11 | In both cases , the process must be stopped while you do the move , so before anything else you must type : |
| 12 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 13 | Outward investment may be banned because it weakens the balance of payments and allows the life-blood capital to leak out of the system , whilst inflows of currency may be repulsed because they cause the exchange rate to rise to unacceptable levels or add to the domestic supply of money and thus threaten inflation . |
| 14 | Indeed , he was just about to ask to be substituted when he collected the ball in the 38th minute on the edge of the area with his back to goal . |
| 15 | Great efforts have been made to restore the salmon runs on rivers in the American north-east , only for 70-90 per cent of the fish to be caught when they reach the rich feeding grounds off the west coast of Greenland . |
| 16 | But the promises with work that we had when we went in the army , you j you 'd be looked after We got the worst damn place anybody could . |
| 17 | So far we have distinguished two levels of stylistic variation : that of sense reference , and that of syntax sense , but a further level will be added when we consider the multilevel coding of language in more detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 18 | And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm . |
| 19 | To this it might be objected that one learns the meaning of ‘ blue ’ through seeing blue things and being told they are blue ; learning the meaning of the word is a matter of attaching a word to the look of something ; the look is basic . |
| 20 | Former NZ captain Geoff Howarth informed the nation of his availability through the tabloid Sunday News , but there was n't much doubt that Lees would be reappointed if he wanted the job . |
| 21 | The effects of an intervention can be clarified if we compare the experiences of different groups , such as recipients and non-recipients of services . |
| 22 | It can not be applied because we lack the starting point — a law of gravitation consistent with SR . |
| 23 | I am surprised whenever a good novel comes to be written because I understand the odds it was written against . |
| 24 | A central authority would only be accepted if it represented the Juntas ; backed by British agents , who thoroughly disliked the military consequences of federalism , the movement for the creation of a Central Junta triumphed over the jealousies of the important Juntas . |
| 25 | Parents need to listen as well as to talk and to let it be seen that they recognize the teenager 's viewpoint , even when they take an opposite view . |
| 26 | ‘ Your vassals will come to you for justice , and you can not expect them to accept your judgement if it can be seen that you hold the Yasa in contempt . ’ |
| 27 | This may be seen if we compare the definition of income with the comprehensive , or Haig Simons , approach . |
| 28 | Each in her turn looked frequently towards the moor but realised that no sign of George would be seen until he reached the yard . |
| 29 | Part of the function of an external UPS is to smooth out the incoming power , but that can only be done before it reaches the PC 's power supply . |
| 30 | Skin brushing need take no longer than five minutes each time and can be done while you run the bath . |