Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated . |
| 2 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 3 | What does all this tell us of the rhynchosaurs ' diet ? |
| 4 | It 's much easier to say something along the lines of , oh he was only a pathetic old flasher , or something like that . |
| 5 | And you 'll find it 's so much easier to try everything in the comfort of your own home . |
| 6 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |
| 7 | Just as we came into Stranraer Gardens , Mrs Quigley said , ‘ We have worked so hard to bring you to the Lord , Simon ! |
| 8 | However , if your child does something , and as a result of his action something unpleasant happens to him , he is less likely to do it in the future ( the undesired behaviour may be reduced or eliminated ) . |
| 9 | But folded within it was a handwritten note ‘ So good to see you at the library , albeit briefly . |
| 10 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 11 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 12 | The King was much intrigued to see them in the Dolls ' House and enquired who gave her permission . |
| 13 | Where he did have strong personal views , he proved less willing or less able to implement them over the opposition of others . |
| 14 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 15 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 16 | It is not that these judgements should not be made , but that where subjective judgements are made by the teacher she should be aware that this is so and be prepared , not only to give reasons for her judgements , but also to be sufficiently flexible to change them in the light of particular circumstances . |
| 17 | The French-built 624ft Dreamward supports a two-storey casino , shopping arcade and conference centre , but still has a shallow enough draught to take her to the nought degrees longitude line in south east London . |
| 18 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 19 | And that 's extremely difficult to do something about the equity target , since National policy , the distribution of income , housing policy , all the things that we tackle on this committee and committees of the council have a very significant effect on the health of the people who live in the city , and it 's not in our control . |
| 20 | Gavin Peacock , their leading scorer , is another highly saleable asset without a contract and he is less keen to commit himself to the club . |
| 21 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone . |
| 23 | The Minister is naturally anxious to get me off the subject of the ’ Save our Schools ’ campaign , the No Turning Back group and his views on comprehensive education . |
| 24 | But even that performance is only sufficient to put it in the middle ranking of the world 's stock markets . |
| 25 | Also , it was no longer possible to take it into the Sadler 's Wells repertory , as had been intended . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm ordered to give you these things , ’ Harvey said , as though he did n't want to really , but I do n't think he meant that — he was just over-keen to do everything by the book . |
| 27 | As we have already seen , Tories were largely able to accommodate themselves to the Revolution ; most could accept William at least as de facto ruler , and some , following Edmund Bohun , were even able to rationalise the events of 1688 – 9 in such a way as to conclude that William was also monarch de jure . |
| 28 | For but everything is so so not wholly satisfactory so I 'm just scared to have them in the house . |
| 29 | It was now no longer sufficient to accept it as the more or less automatic result of the existence of a number of completely sovereign States bound together by geographical contiguity . |
| 30 | Flu is most likely to affect you in the autumn and winter , e.g. from October to March . |