Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Insensitive handling of cash-flow by Accounts might just be the last straw to turn a key person away from you when you need him or her the most . |
| 32 | The shopkeeper pays tax on his or her sales of all taxable goods , minus the tax paid by those who sold him or her the goods wholesale , and so the chain goes back to the producer . |
| 33 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 34 | And rare microlepidoptera feed on the roots of tansy , or mine the leaves of fat-hen . |
| 35 | They had to find and dig or mine the iron ore . |
| 36 | Then the value of the whole W ( the value it has , as Moore puts it , on the whole ) consists of the value of W as a whole plus the value of X plus the value of Y. According as to whether the value of W as a whole is positive , negative or nil the value of W , on the whole , may be greater , less , or the same as the value of the sum of its parts . |
| 37 | Indeed , many systems of criminal law impose a mandatory sentence for murder ( or whatever the highest form of homicide is called in that system ) . |
| 38 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
| 39 | So a sensible compromise is to examine the baby to see if there is any obviously treatable cause for its symptoms , and if there is not to advise a treatment for the temperature or diarrhoea , or whatever the baby is suffering from . |
| 40 | The under 16's , or whatever the category was , were mostly content with rock fakie , tail tap , rock fakie , tail tap , melan type runs . |
| 41 | When children imagine that they have been adopted , the fantasy always involves some romantic idea like being a princess and not the daughter of the local estate agent or whatever the truth may be ! |
| 42 | The jurymen are asked to hear the evidence and on the basis of the evidence to decide whether or not they think the prosecution have proved , beyond reasonable doubt , that Mr X was drunk in charge , or whatever the crime may be . |
| 43 | Although there are some marvellous cookery books for single people — Delia Smith 's ‘ One is Fun ’ is a good example — I have always found that the trick is not to cook for one , but to cook for four , or whatever the recipe you are following suggests , and to freeze the rest for further meals . |
| 44 | The snag here is that when the contours of the sand and soil take a sharp turn up , down , sideways or whatever the rabbit follows the same line . |
| 45 | The advantage of using a switch which is either completely off or completely on over any form of variable resistance as in linear supplies , is that no power is dissipated in this sort of control element , whatever the load requirements are or whatever the voltage developed across the switch happens to be . |
| 46 | Without realising it , she is facing the otherwise unadmitted truth about father 's inability to assume responsibility , or mother 's suppressed craving for power , or whatever the problems happen to be in her particular environment . |
| 47 | There is even one corner where life in the year 2000 B.C. is represented : when Alford , or whatever the site would have been known as then , would have consisted of straw huts where its inhabitants might have been weavers and flint tool makers . |
| 48 | So I wrote ‘ Full scale cock tracing ’ , you know , ‘ 11.43 pm , Sunday November 24 ’ or whatever the date was . |
| 49 | I 'm not a frog that 's been kissed by a princess or whatever the fairy tale is . |
| 50 | If Stuart decided to give a train driver six weeks compassionate leave or whatever the allowance is , he 'd buy a return ticket . |
| 51 | At the most senior level , the Managing Director , Chief Executive or whatever the title of the most senior person in the organisation is , will be accountable to a Board for the effective work of the whole organisation . |
| 52 | If one of their number was being kept on the phone by some whingeing client who had no intention of investing further , a colleague would rescue him , shouting : " Smith ( or whatever the dealer was called ) , Hong Kong , Line . |
| 53 | Managing people for profit goes deeper than MBO , performance appraisal , quality circles , T-groups , outward bound training , psychometric tests or whatever the latest fashionable approach to management is . |
| 54 | And if People magazine wanted to take a picture of me in the surf with a stuffed animal , or whatever the fuck it was , then hey , the joke 's on them . ’ |
| 55 | When you when you come up here and do the driving you find that erm because people are are just not available at the time and erm y I 'm here just for a and Stan only here for a a limited period , and er you 're sort of trying they 're downstairs they 're trying to get people off the trucks when they come in or whatever the case may be to go out and do an assessment run , and it 's not always possible . |
| 56 | Consider delaying the flash till he 's gone by a bit further or whatever the case may be . |
| 57 | If you rush it too much you can very often find you 're in a false neutral ca n't you or whatever the case may be ? |
| 58 | Just spent 24 hours on a bus with the dashboard covered in St Christophers or whatever the local version hereabouts is . |
| 59 | Or whatever the owner allowed . |
| 60 | Perhaps she never realized quite how deep-seated was this need , but shop , as well as factory staff , could not fail to be impressed at the way both she and Bernard always knew their names , asked with interest about their home life and would always try and help if there was a problem by sending taxis , flowers , hot meals or whatever the crisis demanded . |