Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 2 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 3 | For the irony is , in a society like ours apparently dedicated to ‘ law and order ’ and having a penal policy based largely on deterrent principles , it appears that corporate crime somehow gets left out of the arena of legal and social control . |
| 4 | Alex because she has n't wa ma although mother 's been up erm , nanny always gets shot off to the erm the home and she has n't actually seen her . |
| 5 | So Batty really has gone up in the world — from 4–3 against the ( old , great ) Liverpool at Elland Road two years ago to a 4–3 thriller against a club ninth in the fourth division . |
| 6 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |