Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 2 | This brings up a dialogue box , where you type in the necessary alterations . |
| 3 | And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points . |
| 4 | You either stamp Lucas up his right buttock or you go over the double white lines , or you brake and somebody behind might be too close behind you . |
| 5 | You can either look at people 's jobs because that 's the bulk of the money goes or you look at the charging policy or you look how the building 's run . |
| 6 | The Tour tries to create opportunities by staging ‘ open-events ’ and allotting places to amateurs invited by the sponsor or who qualify under the relevant handicap rules . |
| 7 | no longer confined to persons who speak the King 's English or who come under the direct influence of the great writers ; the continuity of our literary and linguistic heritage is threatened by the far-reaching influence of the half educated … |
| 8 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
| 9 | Notice that it is customary to indicate the parameters best varied to achieve balance by drawing an arrow through them where they appear in the double balance equations , as done here . |
| 10 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 11 | I therefore challenge candidates of all parties to state clearly and publicly where they stand on the chronic and continuous underfunding of a service which is increasingly being asked to undertake more and more duties . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 13 | Although I agree with the sensible suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-East ( Mr. Paice ) , does my right hon. Friend agree that we must try to prevent these crimes from happening and that the best way to do that is for him to instruct magistrates courts throughout the country to pass very harsh sentences on those who are convicted of this outrageous abuse of private property ? |
| 14 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 15 | However , once we start to distort the operation of open justice and the consideration of the matters , we may very well , through the operation of rumour and all its insidious effects that are so damaging in libel cases — the only justification that I know for the high damages granted in such cases — inflict more damage on justice than we realise . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 17 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 18 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 19 | It was , therefore , with sadness that I read of the British Olympic Association 's petty , bigoted decision to withhold recognition of the Paralympics team . |
| 20 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
| 21 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 22 | Casements on eternity , these great patient masterpieces ought to calm the mind and nourish the spirit , but seldom do , and its rare that I emerge from the National Gallery feeling I have really taken advantage of what 's on offer . |
| 23 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't seem to have any more clout with your two friends than I have with the three of you . ’ |
| 25 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 26 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 27 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 28 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 29 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 30 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |