Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 2 | Erm , now you could n't do that with that and that sounds intuitively like the kind of expression that we might have , just because I ca n't think of one does n't mean that |
| 3 | ‘ A number of first year under-graduates are coming through , and that bodes well for the future . |
| 4 | There is a growing consensus about the success of the scheme , and that runs right across the general practitioners taking part in it . |
| 5 | A further example of national information about which local managers were unable to act came with the expanding of the National Diploma level of BTEC in schools : when it was shown that there did not have to be an exclusive choice of BTEC and A levels and that to offer both at the same time was not only permissible but also helpful , the manager was able to make new local choices . |
| 6 | Four eighty , five hundred and fifty , six hundred and fifty seven hundred and fifty , eight hundred against you now at eight hundred and fifty seated there at the back at eight fifty nine hundred standing at nine hundred , nine fifty , one thousand one thousand pounds , any more ? |
| 7 | Approximately 1,100 respondents were interviewed in November 1985 and 750 reinterviewed just after the local elections in May 1986 . |
| 8 | There follows the usual discussion on oppressed-minority self-detecting radar — Jewish , lesbian or otherwise — and some sniffing delicately around the problematical area of Israel , policies of and attitudes toward : Then Clint refers back to the books . |
| 9 | Putting a face to your telephone voice or your press releases personalizes you and this helps enormously in the reception your public relations efforts may be given . |
| 10 | Wide discretion on the part of sentencers is a hallmark of the system , and this extends both to the initial choice of sentencing aim which the sentencer thinks it appropriate to pursue in any given case , and to the selection of a particular measure from the extensive range that is available . |
| 11 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 12 | Second , we have already noted that the adjective is questioned with the word how ? , generally related to adverbial elements , rather than the which ? that is used for attributives , and this agrees well with the structure of ( 16 ) , where the adjective property qualifies a verbal structure , not a nominal one ( i.e. a structure centred on a property , not an entity ) . |
| 13 | The dose received is also important ; and this depends largely on the amount of the particular radiation that reaches the Earth 's surface . |
| 14 | And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes . |
| 15 | We have just defined the general equivalent transformation , and this leads naturally to the important concept of equivalent matrices . |
| 16 | All of the hypotonic ORS , whether they contained monometic or polymeric carbohydrate as substrate , promoted more water absorption than the widely used hypertonic ORS and this accords well with the findings of other workers , both in human jejunum and in animal models . |
| 17 | However , landscapes can now be seen in a variety of ways , in pictures , from the air , and in maps ( Johnson and Pitzl , 1981 ) and this adds further to the list of problems yet to be solved in Lowenthal 's ( 1978 ) excellent essay on finding valued landscapes which include varieties of taste , the effect of social milieu , the distinction between landscape and place , differences between public and professional preferences , whether tastes are innate or learnt , the effect of literary and historical factors , season , time of day , viewpoint chosen and direction of view , novelty and familiarity , distance and memory lending enchantment , personal sensitivity and intensity of feelings , and the effect of experience and training . |
| 18 | The other thing I would like to make sure and this applies also to the members of the public as well as those people who are participating in the discussion , could you please make sure that you have registered for the day . |
| 19 | This results in overlapping : thus , some realizations of /Ε/; are like /a/ , and vice versa , and this applies particularly to the short vowel environments ( following voiceless stop , following sonorant + voiceless obstruent ) . |
| 20 | I have to say , however that , in the end — and this applies particularly to the right hon. Gentleman 's peroration — I thought that he was rather ridiculous . |
| 21 | In brief , then , EC countries currently enjoy only a limited degree of monetary autonomy and this applies only to the very short run . |
| 22 | The recession in the early 1970s caused the highest unemployment since the ‘ Great Depression ’ of the 1930s , and this increased dramatically from the late 1970s onwards . |
| 23 | Around 5% of the Auvergne is designated as Zone de Piedmont and this consists mainly of the foothills and uplands transitional between the lower lying land areas and the mountain proper . |
| 24 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 25 | But just around a bend in the road an opposition supporter who was frightened away from the station , Mr Ram Raj Upadhyaya , said : ‘ We are all terrified and afraid to go anywhere near the polling station . |
| 26 | When my right hon. Friend is dealing with trade with Libya , will he bear it in mind that the United Kingdom is happy and willing to trade anywhere in the world , because that is important to us as a trading nation , but we must never sacrifice our values and standards , particularly those concerning our attitude towards international terrorism ? |
| 27 | While one part of his armies laid siege to Madrid and another pressed westward along the north coast towards Bilbao , Franco studied the idea of uniting the Falange and the Carlist Comunión Tradicionalista . |
| 28 | ‘ Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it . |
| 29 | A campaign , supported by well known people outside the trade union movement , is planned for next week , separate from one already launched by the unions and another started yesterday by the TUC . |
| 30 | And , in addition to having to keep his clothes clean , his body was often too bruised and painful to play apart from the fact that he did n't know how to . |