Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best people are recognized as readily outside the company as within it . |
| 2 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 3 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell the laird , ’ James Menzies began , then raised his voice so that he could be heard as well by the crowd as by the factor . |
| 5 | Given this degree of ambiguity in the chronological indicators , it certainly can not be regarded as out of the question that Oswiu died and Ecgfrith became king in the early months of 671 . |
| 6 | Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface . |
| 7 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 8 | The provision of musical instruments in church should not be seen as solely for the accompaniment and embellishment of singing , but also for solo and ensemble playing before , during or after a service . |
| 9 | That the Schools shall be conducted as heretofore on the principles of the Church of England , but not to the exclusion of the Children of Dissenters who desire to avail themselves thereof . |
| 10 | Since I was last at Garboldisham ( the Real McKoi can fairly be described as out in the wilds ) , Ray has re-vamped the garden . |
| 11 | In compliance with the licensing laws the children 's rehearsal was n't to be held until later in the afternoon . |
| 12 | Since import controls on the necessary scale were regarded as out of the question , a precarious combination of international borrowing and expenditure-restriction was embarked upon . |
| 13 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 14 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 15 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 16 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 17 | The prize is seen as well worth the effort . |
| 18 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 19 | For example , a child who is assessed while slightly under the weather or simply in a bad mood will be likely to perform below par , and a comparison of this assessment with a prior or subsequent assessment will provide a distorted impression of any real changes which have occurred . |
| 20 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 21 | The bare infinitive no longer suffices , however , when its actual spatial support is represented as somehow before the time corresponding to the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 22 | Fourthly , there is the satisfaction of a kind of orthodoxy , perhaps with respect to what is taken as somehow of the greatest significance or fundamentality . |
| 23 | Also some companies do not claim the cash to which they are entitled until well after the financial year has ended . |
| 24 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 25 | From the comfort of the stand , it still felt very close , even at 14-0 , but not one scoring chance was missed until late in the second half and by that time the game was over . |
| 26 | Jack knew that his father 's head was buried as deeply in the world of rugby as the world of medicine . |
| 27 | As he completed a ruthless second-round knockout of Canada 's Donovan ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock in the early hours of yesterday , Lewis was clasped as readily to the purist breast of those seeking the lesser spotted boxer-puncher as refuge-seeking patriots . |