Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 2 | If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine , you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it . |
| 3 | Other proposals made by Konrad Oberhuber of the Albertina , Vienna , include attributing all the grisaille paintings in the exhibition to Mantegna 's own hand rather than dividing them between the master and his workshop , and assigning the magnificent ‘ The Man of Sorrows with two Angels ’ from Copenhagen one of the show 's great revelations to a much earlier dating than the 1500 given it by Christiansen and earlier scholars . |
| 4 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 5 | I keep everything loose in glass jars ( you can wash and save any that you buy ) , which prolongs their life , rather than leaving them in the packets . |
| 6 | Well no cos it 's better receiving Valentines card rather than hearing it over the phone really why they gave them out |
| 7 | In this way , it benefits capitalism to maintain non-capitalist modes of production , rather than engulfing them within the rubric of the capitalist mode . |
| 8 | By now , having experienced the sensation of flying , he felt that his future was in flying the aircraft rather than servicing them on the ground ; in April 1934 he was finally accepted for pilot training . |
| 9 | Plasma etching and ion implantation techniques are then used to build up transistor structures , rather than diffusing them into the substrate material . |
| 10 | But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away |
| 11 | What you are aiming at is a steady indication on the localiser needle , rather than returning it to the centre . |
| 12 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 13 | I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker . |
| 14 | Telling the whole truth about the Ayr salmon , rather than letting me off the hook , only improved the tale . |
| 15 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 16 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 17 | Hanging the pump on strong elastic is an additional way of reducing the noise , as well as locating it above the tank 's water level for safety . |
| 18 | Moreover , it will not be long before common-or-garden programs can vary the weight and shape of letters instantaneously , as well as setting them on the page . |
| 19 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 20 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 21 | As well as having it in the luxury class , I now also include it in the practical , hard-wearing , well worth-the-effort class ! |
| 22 | Groups come together for a specific reason and this reason should run like a thread through the liturgy as well as linking it to the whole community of the Church . |
| 23 | At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time . |