Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm disagreeing with what you 're saying , because you , you 're tarring them all with the same brush . |
| 2 | They 're leaving it all to the police . |
| 3 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 4 | NORTHERN Ireland 's weekly newspapers seem to be holding their own in the recession but admit to having to work hard to earn every penny . |
| 5 | In East Anglia , however , the traditional local seems to be holding its own in the face of what the guide calls ‘ crass money-making schemes ’ . |
| 6 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
| 7 | The Mickey Mouse girl would be sweeping it all into the bin , along with any cockroaches she 'd crushed underfoot . |
| 8 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I shall be needing them all for the meeting . ’ |
| 10 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 11 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 12 | Charged particles from outer space ( cosmic rays ) are bombarding us all of the time and occasionally cause the electronics in the sophisticated detector circuits to misfire . |
| 13 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 14 | It is to discover something more of the pain of God , the hurt to which he is so constantly exposed , even now , after Sinai , and after Golgotha . |
| 15 | At first sight , this seems to be an attractive move : holding hearings behind closed doors has led to accusations that the Institute is protecting its own at the expense of the public interest . |
| 16 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 17 | ‘ So Ockleton 's told you all about the Tyrrell Society , has he ? |
| 18 | Some British industry is holding its own in the R&D expenditure tables . |
| 19 | The need for internment is staring us all in the face . |
| 20 | The difference being that Katherine was doing it all in the name of another who was not her husband , but her father . |
| 21 | Crawford was giving his all to the show . |
| 22 | She felt that the slightest movement would snap his will , precipitating an explosion out of the swell of desire that was sweeping them both to the edge of a world they were too prudent to enter willingly . |
| 23 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 24 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |