Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I think of all the time they 've wasted , trying to prove me guilty while the real killer goes free … ’ |
| 2 | It seems to me clear that the main intention of the offer was to induce people interested in this kind of music to buy ( or perhaps get others to buy ) , chocolate which otherwise would not have been bought . |
| 3 | One of the problems with I twelve and the numerical content of I twelve is that it 's very difficult to differentiate between offices and services , it 's proved impossible to monitor . |
| 4 | In making a case for for a new exceptions policy our our starting point really is the erm strategic planning framework provided by structure plan , that 's Policy I five and the proposed Policy E two . |
| 5 | On occasion it may be someone other than the actual adjudicator who has been involved . |
| 6 | Evidence of insufficient cover might include someone other than the insured person driving the vehicle ; the vehicle being used for the purpose other than agreed , e.g. for business purposes ; or the present vehicle not being entered on the firm 's records ( this being difficult to detect in these days of not generally showing a registered number on a certificate ) . |
| 7 | Commodity prices — at their lowest since the Great Depression of the 1930s — show no signs of looking up because countries must export more every year just to keep their revenues stable . |
| 8 | Louis-Napoleon made it plain that he was himself sure that the main result of the establishment of universal suffrage would be his own success . |
| 9 | It was not a style that she had affected before , but she decided that it suited her better than the severe chignon had ever done . |
| 10 | Because children now arrive later in marriage , parents may be in their fifties before the last child leaves home . |
| 11 | In America , those guru-led hippie students are now in their fifties and the New Age is part of the shopfloor and even in the curriculum in university and school . |
| 12 | Soviet and Vietnamese officials could not , however , simply replace the ZOPFAN proposal with one of their own since the Third World confirmed its support for a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality at the Delhi and Harare Non-Aligned Summits in 1983 and 1986 . |
| 13 | We now know that two protons will not directly make helium ; two protons can not survive the electrical disruption on their own and the stable helium nucleus contains neutrons as well . |
| 14 | More careful and critical studies reveal the all too well-known pattern of the failure of British workers to employ new techniques as effectively as their foreign counterparts , to both their own and the general loss [ Dore , 1973 ; Pratten , 1976b ] . |
| 15 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |
| 16 | For the incoming purchaser will want to know what he or she is entitled to use as their own and the outgoing seller will want to know what he or she can remove . |
| 17 | If that does not work , then the internal complaints procedure comes into its own and the dissatisfied client should be referred to another member of the firm ( possibly the senior partner ) or , though this perhaps will rarely be encountered , someone outside the firm who has been nominated to deal with such matters . |
| 18 | Every sort of love has a value of its own and the wonderful thing is that there is a limitless supply if we care to call upon it . |
| 19 | He rocked her in warmth , holding her close until the harsh sobbing eased . |
| 20 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 21 | Were you right when the worst thing that this |
| 22 | Nor was she present when the carrot-topped left-winger offered his bed to the exhausted scribe . |
| 23 | And are you confident that the friendly brand of computer is coming fairly soon , or is there resistance to it amongst the professionals ? |
| 24 | Bishop continued , ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to inform you all that the judicial process requested by Miles Engado regarding the death of his daughter has now reached a conclusion . |
| 25 | But then that other manic voice was saying to him : But are you sure that the real world exists anymore ? |
| 26 | The presence of matrix bound tPA is itself important because the tPA-plasmin cascade is an activator of the matrix degrading metalloproteinase enzyme family ( see below ) . |
| 27 | It is none other than the Prime Minister who , as Minister for Social Security , introduced measures to prevent people from receiving benefit in those circumstances . |
| 28 | And the pirates were so busy discussing the problem , and what they would do with the reward if they won it , that they did n't notice that they were being observed from the window above by none other than the new Mayor and his entourage . |
| 29 | None other than the greatest mathematician in the world . |
| 30 | For the actual conquest of the elusive Mort Homme , none other than the elder brother of the Commander-in-Chief had been selected ; General of the Cavalry , Eugene von Falkenhayn , commander of the XXII Reserve Corps , and childhood tutor to the Crown Prince . |