Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [coord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ In the circumstances there was no more to be done and I put the matter out of my mind until your officer telephoned my housekeeper yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 5 | Expect them to be hammered and they hold the eventual World Cup winners to a point : expect them to see off a side which had not won in the Championship for three years and they submit weakly . |
| 6 | At a time when the clarion call is for intensified training , higher education and greater specialization , it is a contradiction in terms to attempt to eradicate one of the best educated specialized sectors of the community , a sector that has taken hundreds of years to be created and which has the rare advantage of combining its specialized knowledge with a practical technique inherited over centuries . |
| 7 | I may be crippled but I have the use of my eyes and my intelligence . ’ |