Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the local standing of bishops could often overflow into effective influence at the court of the emperor or the king and give him influence with them and their officials , the bishop was primarily a leader of the local community : the Christian people of the town and the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | er or the ones that have got leaves going into |
| 3 | If your standard way of eating ( or your slimming diet ) includes a mix of proteins , complex carbohydrate , and fresh fruits at each meal , you are much less likely to eat large amounts of refined sugar or the products that contain it . |
| 4 | Had to cut the rashes or the sprots and theekit them that way . |
| 5 | Knowing about methods of preventing pregnancy does not make you go to the doctor or the clinic and ask for them . |
| 6 | So out you go You know people initially work using networks , and then if they do n't have somebody that corresponds to something which they 've got to do then they perhaps will phone the university or the poly and say , ‘ Have you got anyone that knows anything about jam fritters or whatever it is , we want to do a piece because it 's current , ’ and somebody 's unearthed in that particular way . |
| 7 | Apathy is an extreme feeling that we no longer have control over our lives or the things that sweep us along . |
| 8 | A lot of them do n't like all that countryside or the things that grow in it . |
| 9 | It is often said that people are bored at school , and can not do well , because of the irrelevance of the curriculum to their own life and experience , or the life and experience they will have when they leave school . |
| 10 | We might just as easily suggest leaving out other bits of the Bible or the Creeds that seem not quite to fit modern ( and probably passing ) ways of thinking . |
| 11 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Fielding promised , he would hire the loft or the studio and line up the auditioning for the bit parts — the waiters , the dancers , the gangsters . |
| 13 | So , it is not the country of domicile of economic institutions or the classes that dominate them that is the primary consideration in explaining how the global system works , but rather the structural locations of institutions and classes in the global capitalist system . |
| 14 | Would they be pre-conflict borders , the borders on the map , Yugoslav internal federal borders , or the borders that exist after the conflict and the damage that took place during the capture of towns such as Osijek and Vukovar ? |
| 15 | These artists clearly stand close to the Pioneers and are attempting to adapt black-figure to the new movement , with some success : crowded compositions , figures overlapping each other or the borders or cut off by them , vigorous drawing with rather slap dash incision ; but the elaborate fore shortenings and musculature are not much attempted and do not come off very well . |
| 16 | Gof or gove means the corn in the ear or the mow or stack ; that is , before it is threshed . |
| 17 | It means helping counsellees to recognize the situations , the events or the people that provoke stress , and how they react to the stress in their lives . |
| 18 | It 's like , Aids and that like the glue sniffing advert , for instance , put on fo when the children go to bed , but they should be able to see that , sho , they should be able to see look , well that 's putting a message across to me as well , not just the parents , to me , I 'm the one that 's involved and I think that if well maybe the the producers would maybe or the people that do television would maybe put i to say , seven o'clock or that , where young children primary school age can actually sit and watch it . |
| 19 | Sa , and I 'd say yeah but that 's not a pun that 's only a pun if you if you write down this is smashing said erm the robber or the smash and grab , in other words the window fell in , that kind of thing , you know . |
| 20 | Astute politicians do not go off half cocked : they test the water , collect their facts , identify the support systems , undermine the opposition 's case , find the coalitions , understand the ‘ influencers ’ or the roles that carry weight . |
| 21 | But what I ca n't understand is why you needed to know what star sign I am , or the characteristics that go with it . |
| 22 | Not because of Beatty as the studio publicity suggests , or the fact that cast and crew have 68 Oscar nominations between them , nor even because Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman have uncredited , subordinate roles in the movie . |
| 23 | The eastern Australian passive margin is one region where there has been a fruitful interchange of ideas and data between geomorphologists and geophysicists , although this has not resulted in a consensus as to either the history of uplift or the mechanisms that have caused it . |
| 24 | I want or the rock and roll one . |
| 25 | We can not unmake the technologies or the knowledge-bases that have been produced , but we can channel them to more effective and worthwhile use . |
| 26 | Even highly skilled , diligent farmers can misjudge the weather or the market and make costly mistakes . |
| 27 | ( e ) An immediate environment in which , during the past years , three murders have actually taken place , where prostitution , larceny and violence are commonplace in the lives of many of the children and where the hangings that take place at Pentonville Prison periodically create deep disquiet in the minds of all our children . |
| 28 | For example , business liability for death and personal injury resulting from negligence can not be excluded or limited at all by section 2(1) and , in the case of other loss or damage , liability can only be excluded or restricted where the term or notice purporting to do this satisfies a test of reasonableness ; section 2(2) . |
| 29 | They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing . |
| 30 | But none have forgotten the pain of being driven from their parents nor the welcome and love they were given at Waddesdon as a small compensation for that loss . |