Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual I popped into the second-hand bookshops and , as usual , failed to find any old golf books of any interest . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 3 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
| 4 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
| 5 | All this I learn from the official match programme , price sixpence and now something of a collector 's item . |
| 6 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
| 7 | The centre will , however , often ‘ attempt to neutralise the influences of local interests in local states ’ ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 41 ) , and we claim such an attempt has taken place from 1979 to 1988 and that it is this which lies behind the current restructuring of local-central government relations . |
| 8 | When this stops , either N is fail or else the pointer p in the current S points back along the sequence of operators which leads to N. There is a version of this which corresponds to the basic depth first algorithm . |
| 9 | Companies certainly try to control demand , to channel it in known directions , but they are never sure of their market ; the best they can do is to offer a ‘ cultural repertoire ’ , to cover a spread of the likely possibilities in order to minimize the risk — and it is this which accounts for the colossal overproduction of records and the large number that make a loss ( see Laing 1985 : 9–10 , 20 ; Frith 1983a : 92–102 ; Denisoff 1975 : 92–4 ) . |
| 10 | Vietnam and the United Kingdom signed an agreement in Hanoi , the Vietnamese capital , on May 12 which provided for the forcible repatriation of all Vietnamese " economic refugees " from Hong Kong . |
| 11 | The result is a ludic collapsing of autonomous theoretical systems on the basis of structural similarities or ‘ slips ’ from one to another which point to the common ‘ story ’ underlying them . |
| 12 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 13 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 14 | The rest had left finance , bar a few who retrained for the burgeoning futures markets in right-to-pollute certificates and manual-job options . |
| 15 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems has a deal going with another Russian concern , this one operating under the improbable name Elvis+ : seems they 've cut some kind of technology licence and co-development pact for wireless network communications technology to be used in Sun 's nomadic computing strategy ; Elvis is apparently a privately held company run by one Alexander Galitsky , who by repute was involved in the Soviet space programme , but all should be clear when the pair go public March 16 . |
| 17 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 18 | In contrast to the glamour of television stars featured in the earlier story , this one focused on the alleged exploits of a family living in a council house in rural England . |
| 19 | The creature was large-headed , absurdly so , its body half man , half something lost in the primordial past . |
| 20 | Another one killed on the main road as well . |
| 21 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |
| 22 | Another one running in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Another one lured by the small screen 's filthy lucre . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , one 's er controller , another one 's er , a senior warehouseman , another one works out the back door , er , the other one 's like Gary , he does bread all the time . |
| 25 | In particular , examples have been found of periodic behaviour occurring at higher r than chaotic for the same values of b and P. Changes are not necessarily in the direction of greater randomness the further one goes from the first instability of steady solutions . |
| 26 | The effects of educational courses and programmes become harder to evaluate the further one moves from the initial point of instruction . |
| 27 | The effects of educational courses and programmes become more difficult to evaluate the further one moves from the initial point of instruction . |
| 28 | In Section 7.4 we look at the special case of inherently restrictive adjectives . |
| 29 | In Fig. 2 we show at the upper right a typical fragment of foveal retina from one of our preparations . |
| 30 | Mr Jardine was another 'oo insisted on the 'ighest standards . ’ |