Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | does that compare them with the customers ? |
| 2 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 3 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 4 | In the ignominious collapse of the grand scheme the two separated , each to accommodate itself to the developing capitalist system , each to find its own way forward within the system and as part of it . |
| 5 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 6 | Although relatively fresh and interesting , neither has anything like the same energy as his screenplay for Mackendrick . |
| 7 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 8 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 9 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |
| 11 | Some rattled on the glass , some got her in the face , some spurted into the room . |
| 12 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 13 | I haul her off the bed and half carry , half drag her into the bathroom . |
| 14 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 15 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 16 | This bring you to the main designing screen . |
| 17 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , well , some make it to the big time , others do n't , ’ Melissa remarked smugly . |
| 19 | He 'd heard stories about him in Calcutta and half expected something of the sort . |
| 20 | Few make it to the top . |
| 21 | This manifested itself in the falling returns in grain collections for provisioning the towns and the Red Army . |
| 22 | This has something of the smack of a ‘ like it or not ’ pronouncement of the kind commonly declaimed by those who would have us suppose that opposition to things we do not like would be pointless . |
| 23 | The carving of the features on the youth 's head , fig. 70 , is so like that of the girl 's that they may well be the work of one artist ; but this has none of the other 's contradictions . |
| 24 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 25 | At one level , this exhibits itself in the place that mathematics and science have come to occupy , mainly in virtue of their underpinning of technology in all its forms , including information technology and computerization . |
| 26 | This provided her with the ideal opportunity to research and write a book about the local food , which resulted in the publication of The Taste of Cyprus ( Interworld Publications , £5.95 ) , an enjoyable look at seasonal Cypriot cooking . |
| 27 | This places one in the domain of knowledge or facts and the perceiving necessarily precedes the logical conclusion to which it gives rise . |
| 28 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 29 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 30 | This says nothing about the Government 's industrial strategy , because although the Government give nothing to the DCDC , they give more than £500,000 to the Devon and Cornwall development bureau , the inward investment bureau . |