Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second link between the worlds of commerce and research effectively ends probably the British computer community 's longest running saga . |
| 2 | Traffic was heavy and drivers bad tempered so the white van was forced to jockey for position , the swarthy man stamping on brake or accelerator and his passenger bouncing off her precarious seat . |
| 3 | So instead they turn to the past , to an idea of what the unspoiled working class community might have looked like in its classic phase before the War , before bombs , bulldozers and planners together swept away the old slum environment with its maze of narrow streets , its self-contained economy of tenements and factories , corner shops and pubs , and its equally complex , ingrown network of grannies , uncles and lifelong ‘ mates ’ . |
| 4 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 5 | Gods whose ways co-existed with farming and nature now functioned all the better in the guise of saints . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you and Father probably felt just the same , so you 'll understand , wo n't you ? ’ — blunt perhaps , but honest . |
| 7 | These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves . |
| 8 | But Kylie now eclipses even the Material Girl . |