Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
| 2 | Which not only guarantees you the widest choice possible but also allows you complex control over the design of your beautiful new custom-built bedroom . |
| 3 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 4 | Erm which basically says what the main issues throughout the year were . |
| 5 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 6 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 7 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 8 | The declaration , as its name implies , only declares what the legal position of the parties is ; it does not change their legal position or rights . |
| 9 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 10 | Individualism of this variety strives to put individuals in their social context , but nevertheless gives them the last laugh . |
| 11 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 12 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 13 | Bah , the professor always gives me the dirty jobs while he plays with his monster . |
| 14 | well that was an old banger were n't it ? , she always , she always gives me the little bags on the carpet , aye bags |
| 15 | It still gives us the same answer cos we multiply to get the indices . |
| 16 | He still feeds us the odd titbit , apparently . ’ |
| 17 | Furthermore — and this probably gives us the best clue as to the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia — there is fluctuation in mental state over a much shorter time-scale . |
| 18 | But that really wo n't last long much after the erm , well we do n't know , I er , nobody really knows , I mean , British Aerospace has fragmented into all of these property groups and Rover and everybody 's got fingers in the pie and we 're not , we 're sort of caught half way between short-term aims to make a quick profit from trying to get Shell in you know and that sort of thing , but I mean , we just need to talk about , nobody really knows what the long-term policy of the main British Aerospace Board is . |
| 19 | Now a cursory look through our library cuttings today shows me the huge range of work in which you 're involved . |
| 20 | Who even knows what the Multilateral Force was , or could differentiate between NEDO and NEDC ? |
| 21 | Next month even brings us The Good Cat Food Guide ( Chatto & Windus , £4.99 ) . |
| 22 | She then shows me the various x-rays , and we discuss the discharge arrangements . |
| 23 | He then gives them the following details . |
| 24 | The band maximum then gives us the vertical ionization energy , and the band origin gives the adiabatic ionization energy . |
| 25 | ‘ As long as everybody else sees it the same way , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |