Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , the Spanish often speak of the English choral tradition with admiration and have received with generosity and warmth English recordings of music by Iberian masters such as Victoria and Guerrero . |
| 2 | Yet although Jamaican music is a source of deep national pride , the rich rarely take in the messages . |
| 3 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 4 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 5 | He writes : I was now convinced , after the stubborn to-and-fro contest for every foot of ground which had continued throughout the whole of April , that although we had more than once changed our methods of attack , a decisive success at Verdun could only be assured at the price of heavy sacrifices , out of all proportion to the desired gains . |
| 6 | The vertical fins are marked with yellow and the ventral just consist of a few rays . |
| 7 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 8 | The ill-fated Jeeves ( 1975 ) provides the only unseemly blemish on the balance sheet . |
| 9 | This contrasts with the observed northwards dip of the Main Central Thrust at about 15° . |