Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My driving licences were still there and the odd bits of paper you always accumulate . |
| 2 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |
| 3 | Behind the specific accounts of meaning we offer in this book lies the general theory of Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1974 ) . |
| 4 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 5 | Many of course die , but those who survive eventually lose most of the colour and are left speckled , rather than with the definite lines of colour you will find in shop tanks . |
| 6 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 7 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 8 | However , it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event . |
| 9 | Today , Alexei is pale , tires easily and has frequent colds and infections but , despite the continual doses of radiation he receives in the food he eats , the water he drinks , he is still in reasonable health . |
| 10 | Corbett and Ranulf finished off the meagre scraps of food they had begged from the kitchen and hurried down . |
| 11 | " Now " he said " write down all the detailed types of communication you think can take place while you 're in College until the end of your courses and put them in the right parts of the chart . |
| 12 | Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking . |
| 13 | First , I draw out the outline of the motif on to a mylar sheet , with all the outlines for the different areas of colour I want to use . |
| 14 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 15 | In achieving this end , essays follow certain general patterns of development and direction , which are definable in terms of the focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 16 | Given the difficulty of identifying the different types of dementia it is usual for epidemiological studies of this disease to concentrate upon organic brain failure as a single condition . |
| 17 | Many with memories of school retreats that were a matter of being silent and often boring , wonder about the different types of retreat they hear about today . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) Assess your significant competitors for the different types of work you undertake ( or would like to undertake ) , their distinctive features , their market representation and legal specialisation . |
| 19 | If we reflect further , we can also see that each beatitude addresses the weaknesses of the different types of personality we looked at earlier . |
| 20 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 21 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 22 | Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach . |
| 23 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 24 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 25 | Among the Dark Elves of Naggaroth he is known as the Reaper , to the Goblins of Red-Axe Pass he is Orcbane , and to the north the Norse know him as Mankiller . |
| 26 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 27 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 28 | As the manual tells you , by holding certain stitches in holding ( E ) position and knitting the remaining stitches in sequence you can work shoulder shaping , neck shaping , sock heels and toes and even a shaped hemline on skirts , while most attractive full skirts can be made on the same principle . |
| 29 | Half-lives of various radionuclides , together with the principal types of radiation they emit , are summarized in table 5.2 . |
| 30 | In the nineteen nineties with the tumbling costs of hardware we can adv afford to provide more and more people in our enterprise-with access to a computer or the information within in . |