Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the young Federman arrives in America and will embark on a new series of experiences , so Double Or Nothing speculates about the possible shapes it might take . |
| 2 | At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol . |
| 3 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 4 | Similarly , people who are related or who have a close personal relationship will not be employed where one acts as the other 's superior in a disciplinary role or in financial matters . |
| 5 | For this , we assume that nothing changes after the first T periods . |
| 6 | I gather that nothing remains of the site today . |
| 7 | Although nothing appears in the Minutes by way of members ' complaints , it seems that John Chalcraft ( Club President 1956–57 ) and Guy Blaker ( Captain 1949–50 ) sought to approach bondholders who might be bought out and there was a hope that the price might be negotiated . |
| 8 | In order to ensure that everyone keeps to the laws there are specific penalties , such as fines or imprisonment , for those found guilty of breaking the law . |
| 9 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 10 | That this has not come about indicates either that everyone benefits from the system — which pluralist writers show is patently not so or that the democratic and neutral state is in fact nothing of the sort and that the scope for reform is severely limited . |
| 11 | The project outline claims that no-one lives in the inner zones , although this is disputed by local non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , which insist that tribal people currently use all of the forest . |
| 12 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
| 13 | It is n't every day that someone starts on the ground floor and ends up by being made a director of the firm . |
| 14 | What steps have been taken by the CITB to ensure a maximum register of employers and that none slips through the net ? |
| 15 | so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left |
| 16 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ she asked in the lowered tone that one uses in the darkness . |
| 18 | It is a group based on matrilineal descent , which means that one belongs to the group because one 's mother belonged to it and not because of the identity of the father , since this can not be known . |
| 19 | It is these metaphorical journeys that one sees on the walls of their tombs : the dead sailing the river in search of a promise . |
| 20 | Again he had the impression that she was a young girl , for there was a smoothness about her skin that one sees in the young before the face reaches the border of adulthood . |
| 21 | What one hopes , of course , is to find that one comes to the same conclusions from using the neuropsychological method as from using psychological methods of investigation : and , as we will show in Chapter 9 , such agreements between conclusions do actually occur . |
| 22 | The movies tackled society on the broadest front and refused to be confined to any one social zone but for all that one senses from the trade papers and social surveys that the industry had become preoccupied with its fashionable down-town audiences and that the super-cinemas were thought of as the social cutting edge of the trade . |
| 23 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 24 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 25 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 26 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 27 | Once one goes beyond the relationships which are governed by privity of contract and its statutory extension , the rules governing the enforceability of leasehold obligations are simply stated : 1 . |
| 28 | To assume that everything turns on the exchanging of benefits is to cast an unwarranted slur on many honourable , and sometimes courageous , public officials . |
| 29 | It goes without saying that everything depends on the nature of the piece of music to be scored . |
| 30 | For all their mutual confidence in each other and their shared patience — although one suspects from the records that the navigator had more of this essential quality than the adventurer — each brought his own special talents to this technique of beach reconnaissance . |