Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have always liked to read the Golden Age detective stories , if you like , the country house murder mysteries , but I would have to admit that reading those is to some extent desire for stasis , a desire erm for a particularly safe kind of world , where everything works out in the end , because that 's usually what happens , and so these days I tend only to take very small doses of that particular medicine . |
| 2 | Once one looks away from the north , Gloucester 's connection appears to fragment . |
| 3 | Once one looks away from the north , Gloucester 's connection appears to fragment . |
| 4 | Dalton interwove the two viewpoints in Labour 's June 1944 statement on full employment ( which he described as largely Keynesian with some socialist additions ) and Labour 's 1945 election manifesto was more convincing on full employment than anything put out by the Conservatives . |
| 5 | ‘ In a strict Party sense this was all bourgeois individualism and bohemianism , to me it was infinitely more attractive than anything going on in the Communist Party , particularly the student Communist Party , which was largely in-fighting and sectarian politics . |
| 6 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
| 8 | But Caspar said this was unlikely ; the Draoicht Suan would probably keep everyone inside Tara asleep until somebody came along with the counter-spell . |
| 9 | On the outside it looked like something left over from the siege of Leningrad in 1944 , but inside everything was in immaculate white , including a large wrinkled matron who proceeded to give the medico a verbal roasting , followed by expulsion from the premises . |
| 10 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 11 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 12 | If one goes back to the Greek , one will find the term speiran , a precise translation of ‘ cohort ’ . |
| 13 | Probably not , if one insists absolutely on the principle of non-repetition . |
| 14 | If one runs out of the latter one can use paper tissues instead , though I would n't recommend them for pressing fragile flower heads as the tissues can leave a slight pattern on the petals . |
| 15 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 16 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 17 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 18 | The distinction between the two types is generally not too difficult to make if one knows enough about the sources of the data . |
| 19 | But if one walks inland across the salt marsh or sabkha and digs a hole , one can find the same algal mat buried beneath wind-blown sand with layers of anhydrite and gypsum . |
| 20 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 21 | The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself . |
| 22 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying that and I 'm not saying I ca n't cope , but it should be a Marshal on this job so that I 'm there if anything comes up in the village , you see what I mean ? ’ |
| 24 | Check if anything comes out of the mouth . |
| 25 | In this way , if anything leaked out about the deal , the Americans could claim they were not supplying Iran directly . |
| 26 | if they had the well because nobody came forward from the working class through it , it was the intellectuals that started it and gathered the |
| 27 | Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry . |
| 28 | For the next half-hour , while everyone filtered back into the big hall , while the musicians struck up and people began to dance , she counted off the time until the bride and groom were scheduled to leave — and when she could leave herself . |
| 29 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 30 | When everyone moved out of the kitchen into the living-room after lunch , leaving Jannie to put the coffee on , Bob lingered behind with her , savouring the sudden calm . |