Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
2 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
3 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
4 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
5 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
6 | ‘ That 's the whole point — regardless , Miss Everett , that both you and I know that you 're never going to marry him anyway , Travis , who cares deeply for his family , ’ as you do , Leith could well have inserted , ‘ is only going to take it on the chin and let you go , by learning that the person you do love is a member of his family , who loves you in return . ’ |
7 | She said do well you do n't need any forms , cos it 's only you , we 're only going to alter it on the computer |
8 | only going to alter it on the computer anyway . |
9 | We only seem to have one in the erm basket . |
10 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
11 | However , a pilot study has shown that if the available data is collected and sorted by computer , enough survives to enable something of the overall pattern to emerge , especially through comparison with the much more plentiful English data . |
12 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
13 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
14 | Low-level ozone , so called to distinguish it from the naturally forming ozone in the stratosphere which accounts for about 90 per cent of the ozone in the atmosphere , is created by the action of sunlight on oxides of nitrogen and reactive hydrocarbons ( volatile organic compounds ) emitted by vehicles and industry . |
15 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
16 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
17 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
18 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
19 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
20 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
21 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
22 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
23 | Many like this team from Calgary in Canada , only managed to free one in the time . |
24 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
25 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
26 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
27 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
28 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
29 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
30 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |