Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever tried to install software that refuses to use anything but the A : drive even though you are forced to use it in the B : drive because of the size of the diskettes ? |
| 2 | Status consciousness , as applied to male/female speech differences , is a construct that tries to squash everything into the one-dimensional framework of class ; to the extent that other things are relevant it therefore fails . |
| 3 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 4 | Lisa plays the baritone sax and aims to get everyone in the poop as often as possible . |
| 5 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |