Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE are some disasters that are so ghastly that even the voyeur averts the eyes . |
| 2 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 3 | He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground . |
| 4 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 5 | The Torres reds are also available and surely the ‘ jewel in the crown ’ must be the superb Gran Coronas Black Label , which the proprietor serves with the pride of someone who knows you wo n't be disappointed . |
| 6 | Since the fear of fear will not be so great you will not be so distressed and then the anxiety will fade away of its own accord . |
| 7 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 8 | The disk is round , to slightly pentagonal , diameter up to 13 mm ; covered by trifid spinelets , rarely the spinelets may be more elaborate but often the crown is indistinct and the spinelets appear to be rugose . |
| 9 | The challenges facing nurses in the 1990s are likely to be as great as any the profession has ever faced . |
| 10 | This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered . |
| 11 | Initially the quantity expected to be eaten should be very small and gradually the amount increased up to a normal portion for the age of the child . |
| 12 | Presumably stray magnetic fields will not be that high as otherwise the efficiency of the motors would be low . |
| 13 | We have to be absolutely sure that only the pollen we want reaches the stigma . |
| 14 | Maybe so , but there is good and bad , effective and ineffective propaganda , and , as Nizan himself was acutely aware , the technical problems associated with injecting ideology and politics into literature were so enormous that only the most adroit , the most cunning of revolutionary writers would be successful in creating an effective balance between ideological effect and aesthetic technique . |
| 15 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 16 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 17 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |
| 18 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 19 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 20 | If menstruation was hidden — in theory , at least — the bodily changes which accompany it were clearly observable and indeed the outward signs of its invisible presence . |
| 21 | Unless the gutter has split or cracked , it is most likely that either the gutter ( or downpipe ) is blocked and needs clearing ( page 78 ) or that a bracket has given way and the gutter is sagging . |
| 22 | It is little wonder that even the most confident individuals experience some difficulty in trying to make sense of such an environment , one which is alien to most people . |
| 23 | ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land … |
| 24 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 25 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 27 | The vegetation that has not yet been destroyed by the goats and donkeys seems a mass of sharp thorns , and in some places it is so thick that even the goats can get through only on their knees . |
| 28 | The British music business is extremely competitive and only the bands who are prepared to commit themselves totally to their careers will succeed . |
| 29 | It is perhaps ironic that today the Holstein of North America is rapidly overwhelming the dual-purpose Friesian of Europe , whatever its name . |
| 30 | It is perhaps appropriate that even the date of the birth of a personality who still eludes us despite the myriad of books written about her is uncertain . |