Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's time to remember the part each played in the fight against fascism . |
| 2 | In our case this provided by the denotational semantics for occam reported in [ R ] . |
| 3 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 4 | This view of the structurally determined nature of thought and action , and the difficulty this posed for the representatives of the working class when using a formally neutral state to serve ends other than those of capitalism , was one of the major insights which underpinned Ralph Miliband 's seminal book of the 1960s , The State in Capitalist Society . |
| 5 | In baptism this occurs through the faith of Holy Church . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the margins wo n't sustain the level of investment that staying in the game demands . |
| 7 | One seat each went to the hitherto ruling People 's Liberation Movement ( PLM ) , the National Development Party ( NDP ) led by Bertrand Osborne , and an independent , Ruby Wade-Bramble . |
| 8 | For the righthand side this corresponds to the side of the subject field , that is , it excludes the reference area . |
| 9 | While she was trying to restart her Mini Metro car another came round the bend from Darlington . |
| 10 | How much effect this had on the final outcome of the war is hard to say . |
| 11 | Many of the experimental perturbations involved rearranging or removing the parts of the early embryo and seeing what effect this had on the embryo 's development . |
| 12 | Weber saw capitalism as characterised by an emphasis on work and activity and highlighted the effect this had on the moral as well as the economic and political development of a society . |
| 13 | Care of the school buildings is important because of the effect this has on the morale of pupils and teachers . |
| 14 | The first was to trace small mammal bone in modern cave environments , to examine the extent to which it is transported and what effect this has on the breakage and preservation of the bone assemblages . |
| 15 | THE BRIGHTEST SPARK In this profile by Malcolm Brown , Sir Eric Ash , Rector of London 's Imperial College , laments the anti-intellectualism pervasive in UK society and the effect this has on the funding of university education |
| 16 | Whatever effect this has on the children 's futures as clerks , it maims creative instinct . |
| 17 | This report describes the referral patterns of women during pregnancy and the effect this has on the interpretation of perinatal risk ; compares crude perinatal mortality rates between different maternity units ; shows how adjustment for case mix influences the initial rates ; and suggests ways of making analyses of perinatal mortality rates more relevant for evaluating obstetric and neonatal care . |
| 18 | To find out what effect this has on the perch 's eggs , and how much the minnows gain from the ploy , Reiko Baba of Japan 's Osaka City University spent up to six hours a day face down in a stream , armed with a snorkel and face mask . |
| 19 | Unfortunately he pays little attention to the differences and the effect these have upon the implications of what we ascribe to animals whilst using the same forms of words . |
| 20 | It was a long drop from the balcony of the games room ; the castle apothecary carried a line of lethal poisons and draughts ; there were ways out of the castle , a postern or two , and a narrow winding path through the fractured rocks and fallen masonry all tumbled round the castle 's plinthed base like scree , then a long cold walk into the snowy silence … |
| 21 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |
| 22 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 23 | Increasing volumes of boat traffic along the river , pollution , industrial activities along the river bank , siltation , and incidental mortalities from fishing all contribute to the baiji 's decline . |
| 24 | Turf fires , the aroma of baking bread and clicking of the spinning wheel all contribute to the special atmosphere of by-gone days . |
| 25 | Territoriality , dominance , and ritualized fighting all result in the fact , often noticed , that the amount of naked aggression to be seen in nature is less than the maximum possible . |
| 26 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 27 | The influence this gave to the nobility was most clearly demonstrated in the role played by the élite Guards regiments in settling the succession struggles in the period between the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II . |
| 28 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 29 | In fact , the only genuinely new element in the Lockerbie investigation was Iraq 's annexation of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 , and the requirement this imposed upon the American intelligence community to put an acceptable face on Washington 's alliance with Syria and its desired rapprochement with Iran . |
| 30 | For those raised in the prudery of puritanism or the celibacy-conscious preoccupations of Catholicism this ran against the grain . |