Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Banks is a thoroughly Scottish writer , and The Crow Road has already been identified as his ‘ crisis ’ novel : a notable softening of the baroque violence and elaboration of the earlier books and the sideline science fiction ( where Banks hides under the minimal false moustache and wig of a middle initial ) . |
| 2 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 3 | It is only in this particular section , where Reger resorts to the use of low tremolandi on a pedal point , that the orchestral provenance of the music is in any evidence . |
| 4 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 5 | But erm oh they 're a great family they really are but I think George and J Joy 's having Edmund because although Dan lives in the town er what 's it called , New Haven ? |
| 6 | Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document . |
| 7 | The arrival of Keown at Arsenal would put a question mark over the future of Steve Bould , although Graham has in the past employed a three-man system at the heart of the Highbury defence to great effect . |
| 8 | I mutter something and start to clear the dishes , but she is not going to be brushed aside , so Darius crouches at the table with his chin on his hands , watching us like we 're Punch and Judy , and I admit that someone might come . |
| 9 | Although Hoccleve believes in the sacrament he has no wish to prove dark theological matters ( or , probably , to enter on a long psychoanalysis , which , though free , will mean listening as well as talking ) . |
| 10 | Not only does Scotland enjoy greater differences from England than Bavaria does from the rest of Germany ( in virtue of its legal system , Church and education system ) , its needs and those of Wales are dealt with by having Secretaries of State and Parliamentary Grand Committees . |
| 11 | Now , in the absence of team conductor Paul Gascoigne , Clough has a chance to stake his claim for the autumn World Cup climax … if Taylor survives at the home of the New England Patriots . |
| 12 | If Taylor believes in the direct style , he should flaunt it . |
| 13 | If CND sets about the job properly , it may find it easier than we suppose . |
| 14 | If Scotland goes down the road mapped out by them , there would be no return journey ; no turning back . ’ |
| 15 | When they leave , Elaine has no professional support until Sylvia comes in the morning . |
| 16 | But if KaDeWe looks like the others inside , there is something very different about it outside . |
| 17 | Helen shook her head reproachfully , then added , ‘ Actually , I ca n't if Robert comes in the evening . |
| 18 | If Buff stays in the Star Zoo , I thought , he 'll die . |
| 19 | If Photoflo creeps onto the reverse side of the grid , it may leave drying artefacts . |
| 20 | ‘ If Noriega gets into the northern redoubts , there are caches of arms and ammunition and he will have access to his bank accounts . |
| 21 | Mr Mubarak has had his military debt to America forgiven , and hopes for further rewards if Egypt emerges as the saviour of the Gulf Arabs and their oil . |
| 22 | ‘ If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it , then the company which is left will escape . ’ |
| 23 | See if Jack goes towards the |
| 24 | Moreover , If Europe returns to the exchange-rate volatility and misalignments of the 1970s , the great benefits of free trade within the EC will be in jeopardy . |
| 25 | But if Roth dissents from the statement , then imagining how he came to write most of his books becomes a problem . |
| 26 | If Japan resigns from the IWC and refuses to catch whales sensibly the United States might conceivably impose a trade embargo . |
| 27 | ‘ If Kinsella steals from the IRB fund , how do you propose to blazon the news abroad ? ’ |
| 28 | Even if BT gets over the hurdle of proving it does not need a licence , it will still face restrictions on the types of service it can offer . |
| 29 | Oreopithecus is clearly not a dryopithecin , which indicates these postcranial characters may be primitive for the great ape and human clade , but if Sivapithecus belongs in the orang-utan clade , as I have argued , the shared morphology of the orang-utan and the African apes must have arisen independently . |
| 30 | ‘ As you were saying , Piper , if Jerry breaks through the Brigade 's positions , every bastard has had it , … maybe this is it coming up ? ’ |