Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 2 | One example of this " sham reading " is brought to our notice when we realise , on reaching the bottom of a page , that we have not been thinking about what the text means . |
| 3 | His successors of whatever party will not be bound by anything the Noble Earl may say this afternoon , it is inconceivable that a Home Secretary in five or ten years time , also what Lord say in February nineteen ninety four , I really must n't do whatever er I thought of doing in er that given the fact that the Noble Earl Lord gave certain assurances , he will do whatever he considers on that occasion to be right |
| 4 | who can not be beguiled by what the world of desire can offer . |
| 5 | The dialogue continues with each person stating his views candidly but not being influenced by what the other says . |
| 6 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 7 | That will eventually be superseded by what the company is positioning as an open , enterprise-wide repository embracing not only the Informix database , but its Hewlett-Packard Co-derived ToolBus Open CASE environment and 4GL products . |
| 8 | New sequences are rapidly being developed — for example , images can now be obtained in which the fat or water component of the tissue is suppressed independently and MRI angiography also shows great promise . |
| 9 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |