Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
| 2 | And you 'll find it 's so much easier to try everything in the comfort of your own home . |
| 3 | And that 's extremely difficult to do something about the equity target , since National policy , the distribution of income , housing policy , all the things that we tackle on this committee and committees of the council have a very significant effect on the health of the people who live in the city , and it 's not in our control . |
| 4 | In some cultures , scribes do not record texts with word-for-word fidelity , while in others one is not free to alter anything in the process of re-recording . |
| 5 | Oh well it 's always protection of the family and yet they 're not prepared to put anything to the family . |
| 6 | It is not easy to imagine anything in the behaviour of natural flowers for which evolution could conceivably have needed to program bees to anticipate regular changes in distance . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm ordered to give you these things , ’ Harvey said , as though he did n't want to really , but I do n't think he meant that — he was just over-keen to do everything by the book . |
| 8 | Because of the way Dr Kitzinger 's study was set up , she was not able to do anything about the stories she was told . |
| 9 | But on the other side , it is not necessary to interview everyone in the club if the proper statistical sampling rules are obeyed and if proper tests of significance are applied to results obtained . |
| 10 | FEARFUL that an eco-collection could be tarnished with a ‘ muesli bar ’ image , she purposefully chose ‘ to show an avant-garde range that did n't look too eco because the consumer is not ready to do something for the environment at the expense of looking good ’ . |
| 11 | Last night , when the Canadians , Americans and Australians were just arriving , it was still impossible to learn anything about the knockout format on Saturday . |
| 12 | It is vitally important to know something of the individual richness and variety of each religious tradition before becoming subject to the generalisations of those engaged in comparative religion . |
| 13 | Although the courts have not expressly said so , it may be more difficult to do anything for the casus omissus . |
| 14 | But is always necessary to sacrifice one for the other ? |
| 15 | So it is not possible , not practically possible to leave everything to the people . |
| 16 | Americans are scrupulously careful to say nothing on the record about enlargement of the Community : that , they say , is a matter for the Europeans . |
| 17 | It is also advisable to float something on the surface of a concrete pond to help absorb some of the pressure produced by the ice patch , an empty , sealed lemonade bottle , plastic football , large piece of cork or even a tennis ball will do the job admirably . |
| 18 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 19 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 20 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 21 | It would have been quite possible to put something into the pockets of my dressing gown and then put it back into my clothes when I took the dressing gown off . |
| 22 | He ordered a second bottle ; ‘ It 's almost impossible to prove anything in the spying world . |
| 23 | The family was still too upset to say anything about the accident . |
| 24 | But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’ |
| 25 | Invariably some of them were drunk , others high on some weed , some too randy to notice anything but the opposite sex , and the remainder were too self-absorbed to notice anything . |
| 26 | Spencer said easily , ‘ I think you might have been a little more enthusiastic about such lovely slippers , they are a work of art , you must be very pleased to find someone with the talent to work as well as the best London shoemakers and at a fraction of the price , if I 'm any judge . ’ |
| 27 | He was so dangerously persuasive — and it would be all too convenient to blame everything on the absent Miss Philimore . |
| 28 | ‘ It is very difficult to achieve anything against the strength of the conservatives . ’ |