Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The Isle of Wight TEC says that it notified the Department of Employment in August that it might be unable to meet the YT guarantee within the funds allocated for the purpose .
2 Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27
3 Bede says that he subjected the kingdom of the southern Saxons to severe oppression and their bishopric was soon absorbed within the diocese of Winchester ( HE IV , 15 ) .
4 M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs .
5 In 1018 Thietmar of Merseburg says that he destroyed the crews of thirty pirate ships , and he perhaps visited Canterbury to initiate his important and generally good relations with the archbishopric .
6 DEC says that it changed the name of VMS to OpenVMS to reflect its X/Open Portability Guide 3 branding , Posix-compliance and its ability to run on several environments as well as VAX and Alpha .
7 Doubt is cast upon Bursali Mehmed Tahir 's statement , however , by the fact that in the concluding lines of what appears to be another autograph manuscript of the same work , Molla Husrev remarks that he finished the composition of it certainly refers to the work , not the manuscript ) on Saturday 2 Jumada I 883/Saturday 1 August 1478 , having begun it on Saturday 12 Dhu " l-Ka'da 877/Saturday 10 April 1473 .
8 This is very evident when we compare the actual words Masefield uses when he describes the moment when Olivia is forced to accept the warnings of the Governor of Jamestown about her husband 's past and to face the destruction of her romantic view of their marriage .
9 Mary Jane says that she loves the feeling of space but the only drawback is not having a hallway to put the wet coats and muddy boots in when it rains .
10 William of Jumiéges alleges that he treated the æthelings Edward and Alfred with honour , adopted them as brothers , and sent messengers to Cnut asking that they be restored to their own .
11 Marie Wassilieff relates that she seized the gun , forced Modigliani out of the door and rolled him down the stairs .
12 she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
13 Michael Shersby , the MP who represents the police federation 's interests in the Commons , told our reporter Simon Mares that he found the sentence hard to understand .
14 Chez Gerard boasts that it does the best steak frites in town — and judging by the quality of their thin , crispy and piping hot chips , I 'd be inclined to believe them .
15 So the Knight says when he cuts the tale short .
16 Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user .
17 Erm briefly , the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two , the one at the front door he says was broken at some time earlier on the evening on which he was involved .
18 Er briefly the situation is that it 's alleged that he broke two stained glass door panels and Mr denies that he broke the second of the two .
19 Bob Shepton says that they sailed the atlantic and have been up to greenland so this was what was left to do …
20 In the magazine profile , Ms Sheehy divulges that she interviewed the woman named by Mrs Clinton .
21 Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors .
22 GHI suggests that you consult the catalogue , ring the company 's customer-services department or ask the retailer to recommend the right weight for your needs .
23 March 6 In a joint address to the US Congress Bush says that he regards the settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute as one of his administration 's top priorities .
24 BM demands that you specify the exact behaviour which you dislike .
25 ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year .
26 Crilly says that it turns the place into a nightclub , in the Caribbean .
27 The US maintains that it supports the OAS charter , that it is acting to protect the integrity of the Panama Canal treaties , and that Latin America has no cause to fear that the invasion of Panama will be used as a precedent .
28 What it does is combine both pickups through a capacitor and a resistor with a certain amount of reverse phase , to echo the sound a Strat makes when you jam the switch between the middle and neck pickups .
29 Labour employment spokesman Frank Dobson said yesterday : ‘ Major thinks if no-one mentions the bogey of recession , it will go away . ’
30 Hong Kong Special Report : The snakes are in good form , despite the wind : The feet are made for wokking , Robert Cottrell concludes as he adds the extremities of chickens to his range of culinary delights , along with the mysteries of tea , rice and appropriate poetry
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