Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not trust Ellen , knew she must show some cunning and somehow invoke the name of law to frighten Ellen into co-operating . |
| 2 | A wealth of evidence exists to prove that reading involves much more than simply recognising the individual characters that form a word . |
| 3 | But it will also be evident that Saussurean linguistics did much more than simply reinforce the Formalists ' view of literature . |
| 4 | It is an excellent video that does much more than just show the superb display that the public expects from these professionals . |
| 5 | Thomas Cook changed all that and practically invented the tourist industry single-handed , although his first efforts were often financially unrewarding and he kept his ‘ day ’ job as a printer . |
| 6 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
| 7 | Modern methods have made these kilns redundant , and the many hundreds that once formed the Potteries ' smoky skyline have nearly all disappeared . |
| 8 | We are taught at school that if , when subtracting , the number on the top is smaller than that on the bottom , we have to carry ten from the left , take the bottom number from that ten and then add the top one — only sometimes we find that the top number on the left is a zero which means that we have to carry ten from the one to the left of that , turn the zero into a nine and then carry the ten … what a complicated process . |
| 9 | She had left the ceiling fan on all night , but as ever it did little more than sluggishly push the warm air around . |
| 10 | This both attenuates the force of the current occupationalist attack upon the liberal education tradition and suggests that occupationalist objectives will do little more than merely dilute the quality of the education which pupils might otherwise have received . |
| 11 | Shares , goes the patter , are products like any other and so deserve the same marketing effort . |