Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bright intervals are possible and apart from the chance of a light shower it should stay dry milder than of late with a top temperature of eleven celsius fifty two fahrenheit in a moderate south easterly wind . |
| 2 | It is a conditional influence , the bounds of which are dependent as much on the ability to mobilise and win popular support ( which it clearly did not do immediately after Vietnam , when expenditure on the military fell ) as it is on manufacturing an unholy alliance between numerous competing bureaucratic , industrial and military institutions . |
| 3 | These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether . |
| 4 | His moral sentiments are unexceptional , but as a contribution to the ‘ battle of ideas … at the centre of the political struggle ’ , they are null and quite beside the point . |
| 5 | I am worried as well about the way you asked me where I went after we 'd arrived in Oxford because I did n't tell you the truth then either , I went to Holywell cemetery and went to the grave of a friend of mine . |
| 6 | He must be sagacious and have good judgement , be patient and yet at the same time firm in maintaining the interests of the ruler he represented . |
| 7 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |