Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To inculcate the population with the belief that their rulers have the right to demand obedience and they the corresponding duty to give it is the principal art of government . |
| 2 | This will state the gross amount of relevant state benefits paid to the plaintiff , for which the plaintiff must give credit and which the compensating defendant must reimburse the Department of Social Security . |
| 3 | Since a condition has a logical priority with respect to what it allows , there is a before/after relation between what know predicates and what the infinitive does , which calls for the use of to . |
| 4 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 5 | The second level of partnership — the exchange relationship — is characterised by a more direct connection between what a donor or sponsor offers and what the institution offers in return . |
| 6 | Will he seek to ensure that the banks hand back the pension fund assets which belong to scheme members and which the banks have no right to keep , given their reckless lending practices ? |
| 7 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ There is an ever-widening gap between housing needs and what the Government allows local authorities to borrow . ’ |
| 9 | It remains unclear why the changes he identifies have taken place and what the implications are . |
| 10 | He then explained why he had sent Daisy and myself the flowers in the first place . |
| 11 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 12 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 13 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |