Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 2 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 3 | He also has to be a front runner for the captaincy of Scotland and indeed , if so chosen , would become only the eighth to do so from the fullback position , following W.D . |
| 4 | Having decided for themselves that the problem lay in the lack of will and determination on the part of the Indo-Chinese to join whole-heartedly with the French in resisting communism , the US had to obtain assurances from the French that a programme of French government will be developed ; national armies will be organized ; France will despatch sufficient additional armed forces to Indo-China to insure that the restoration of peace and internal security will be accomplished in accordance with the timetable of the overall military plan for Indo-China ( which made it sound more like a military parade than a war and that the French will eliminate their policy of colonialism . |
| 5 | It is her first one not published in January , and the first to deal specifically with the bikini in mind . |
| 6 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 7 | for example : by making his six dancers appear equally important in Symphonic Variations Ashton was the first to break away from the convention of making a ballerina the focus of attention . |
| 8 | Bowyer and Southgate were the first to break away from the rest , their horses fiery , eager for the exercise after close confinement . |
| 9 | The 1991 budget was adopted by the National Assembly on Dec , 22 , 1990 ; amounting to 106,000 million francs CFA and substantially lower than the previous one , it was the first to correspond strictly to the 12-month calendar year , previous ones being based on a 15-month period . |
| 10 | After being told that they could n't have children , the Smiths became the first to sign up for the ARC 1990 , which would form part of some long-term cruising . |
| 11 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |
| 12 | From 1963 , with the publication of the command paper Health and Welfare : the Development of Community Care , local authorities have been encouraged to see as their principal responsibility the provision of services to enable the aged to live independently in the community . |
| 13 | There will be plenty of time for the softhearted to recover back at the hotel . |
| 14 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 15 | When you have the ball , three of them come at you — two to tackle you and the third to go away with the ball . |
| 16 | At the age of 75 , he is the last of the four leaders of the original military junta , the last to talk still of the high crusade against communism . |
| 17 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 18 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |
| 19 | Erm if I give you a ring about Sunday or so I will have sorted out cos I 've got quite a few to sort out at the moment . |
| 20 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |