Example sentences of "[be] [subord] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Try to see a given situation as it truly is when not enhanced by the torture inflicted by your imagination . |
2 | These include the great reed warbler , the wheatear , the whitethroat and the redstart but , as yet , none of these is as well studied as the pied flycatcher . |
3 | I only hope the same regulation is as strictly enforced in the rest of Europe . |
4 | ‘ My lady Anne is as yet lodged with the lady Alianor within the Tower , ’ he said . |
5 | I am aware that , historically , south London has not been as well served by the underground as north London . |
6 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
7 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |
8 | ‘ I am as well read as the best scholars of the world , and I use the language of the gods and the verses of the poets , ’ said Taliesin , ‘ but I will try to speak more simply in future . ’ |
9 | It is not unknown to have ballast on a spar tip to even out the dynamic balance , and , if you are as well prepared as the Peacocks , you 'll have spare spars handy which will have different flexibility to try against the breeze of the day . |
10 | There are frequently one or more characters within the fabliau who are as well informed of the situation as the reader may be , and in control of it . |