Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that the two may not change in tandem ; the first may need to change rapidly , while the latter change only slowly if at all . |
| 2 | The social security official required to secure the delivery of benefits to one-parent families , but also expected to prevent abuse , may well take the latter consideration more seriously than the former , letting his or her conception of morality and stereotypes about the social behaviour of the claimants influence behaviour . |
| 3 | This outperforms the return on conventional gilts of the same maturity so long as inflation is above 1 p.c. to 2 p.c . ’ |
| 4 | It may be helpful , when considering a precedent , to ask why a particular term has been included , and what it is intended to achieve , and then consider whether the same result can be achieved in any other way : for instance , it may be possible to express the same idea more clearly or concisely . |
| 5 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 6 | The following observations follow those on the agenda , and of course will be dealt with together at the same time so far as possible . |
| 7 | There 's a lot of competition to get your space , specially with the Latins ; they 're not used to a woman doing the same job as well as they do . ’ |
| 8 | Auto-pattern adjustables ( used on cars ) and girder-pattern spanners have slightly different mechanisms , but both suffer from the same disadvantage as far as plumbing is concerned , which is that they are difficult to use on a pipe close to a wall . |
| 9 | Another contemporary , Sergei Solov'ev , made the same point more acerbically when he said that " In the Roman Empire emperors ascended the throne from various callings " , whereas " in the Russian Empire Alexander II ascended the throne from the ranks of the heads of military-educational institutions " . |
| 10 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 11 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 12 | The Empire might have become the Commonwealth , but that was just a new name for the same thing as far as we were concerned . |
| 13 | ( 3 ) The particular factors referred to above are — ( a ) the nature and scale of the institution 's operations ; and ( b ) the risks inherent in those operations and , if the institution is a body corporate , in the operations of any other body corporate in the same group so far as capable of affecting the institution . |