Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her main fault is that she takes too seriously the allusive jokes in Asquith 's letters . |
| 2 | but the third letter has got to be an S , as it turns out now the third letter 's got to be an S |
| 3 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 4 | The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing . |
| 5 | In his discussion of the decay of English myth , he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are ‘ terrified of the myth ’ . |
| 6 | It looks very much the same as ever it did . |
| 7 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 8 | This is consistent with the observations of the microwave background radiation , which show that it has almost exactly the same intensity in any direction . |
| 9 | Well it depends how quickly the poor peasants can achieve more efficiency how quickly they can do that . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it raises yet again the economic and political implications which too frequently take second place to other matters but which are of the greatest importance for West Belfast . |
| 11 | As far as health is concerned , it requires not only the equitable distribution and use of medical services , but also the reduction of inequalities in working and living conditions . |
| 12 | Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub . |
| 13 | It applies in exactly the same way in the case of a breach of contract by the seller . |
| 14 | He remembers most warmly the lively discussions in the Men 's Bible Class , the chief spokesman being Mr John George McCann who , with his family , for many years gave skilled and professional help with the harvest decorations . |
| 15 | It asks how far the jobless attempt to maintain traditional roles , whether by legal or illegal means , and looks at the different sources of pressure and aid found in this village . |
| 16 | He emerges as precisely the opposite — a noble and tragic figure , reluctantly consenting to play an unpleasant , painful and obligatory role in a carefully pre-arranged script . |
| 17 | For example , it assumes an entrance fee for resources that are by and large free , and it ignores not only the intervening opportunity of other sites but also personal preference , which is likely to be a key variable in a basically non-economically motivated activity . |
| 18 | He steps slowly up the shallow Hollywood stretch-steps dripping like a teddy-bear out of a rinse cycle . |
| 19 | Fender have called this control ‘ Loudness ’ for two reasons : one , because it varies the amp 's loudness , and two , since it operates in much the same way as a stereo system 's ‘ loudness ’ control , boosting both bass and presence to create more palatable tones at low volume settings . |
| 20 | If Sartre began by attempting to unite man with history , in the notes at the very end of the manuscript he poses once more the fundamental ontological question , and immediately follows it with a decidedly unequivocal answer : |
| 21 | ‘ It works in exactly the same way only I 'll be going down instead of across . |
| 22 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 23 | Put one of the little fellows in a box and tap on the table with a pencil and he behaves in exactly the same way . |