Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases drunkenness may be material as showing that the accused had not the intention which forms part of the essence of the crime charged . |
| 2 | Newly refurbished and the first to show off the new logo , the Bath Road store 's being hailed as a model for Co-Ops to come — proof , says the company , that it 's serious about shedding that fuddy duddy image once . |
| 3 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 4 | It has an apsidal termination but no complete ambulatory ; there are large flanking side chapels ending before the apse , and the ambulatory encircles only the end part . |
| 5 | When the Vichy French fled , de Gaulle 's Free French and the British took over the capital . |
| 6 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 7 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 8 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 9 | As the 747 coasted down the runway for take-off , a voice announced to passengers that , following the lead of some American airlines , passengers would be shown the view of take-off from the cockpit . |