Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils become involved in the collection and manipulation of data and are motivated validity of the end product so that projects lose the contrived which marred many projects in the past . |
| 2 | For our parse , we can choose the largest which satisfies this condition . |
| 3 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 4 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 5 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 6 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 7 | I was the only one of the three who had any confidence in Burmese , and so was able to be bilingual in teaching and in giving notes . |
| 8 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 9 | The systematic alteration in decisions between each period and the succeeding one renders each opportunity offered to the market more competitive than that offered in the preceding period that is , it is offered with fuller awareness of the other opportunities being made available , against which it is necessary to compete . |
| 10 | For the elderly who have some form of infirmity , the normal daily routine of keeping the body clean and disposing of its waste products can be exhausting , hazardous , and , in some cases even painful when the back must be bent and the limbs slowly manipulated into the appropriate positions to get in and out of the bath , and down and up from the lavatory seat . |
| 11 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 12 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 13 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 14 | Among the millions who die each year through malnutrition there are many children of the Kingdom . |
| 15 | ‘ I was the first one to experience this sort of pressure , while players like Ian Wright and Keith Curle can go for extraordinary amounts but they escaped because they were not the record signings . |
| 16 | In general , the giver of a monetary gift ranks higher than the receiver , but , as between two receivers , the one who receives more ranks higher than the one who receives less . |
| 17 | Perhaps he 'll come again tomorrow and then we could put a star for 3 , and the one who gets most stars , wins . ’ |
| 18 | Would he be the only one doing that job ? |
| 19 | In effect , however , he was letting it be known that Mr Heseltine would not be the only interventionist candidate for the leadership -nor the only one to feel more enthusiasm about Europe than Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | She was the only one to show any sadness on their behalf . |
| 21 | The 91 patients in Soutar & Wilson 's study were asked their opinion about the effect of noise on sleep and of the 28 who admitted that sleep was more difficult in hospital than at home , only 9 said it was because of the noise . |
| 22 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 23 | The IVL report was based on a sample of 1,854 students , or one in 14 of the 14,000 who graduated this year . |
| 24 | Erm well just as you come , that 's the best I felt all afternoon and I , all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper , cos I games |
| 25 | Otto I founded the monastery of St Maurice at Magdeburg in 937 , and from 955 at the latest he intended this church to become an archbishopric , heading the missionary organization amongst the Slavs to the east of the River Elbe . |
| 26 | from where the last one finished each time . |
| 27 | The days of being the last one to leave any night out — ‘ I was the sort who was afraid he was missing out on something ’ — were then at an end . |
| 28 | Yeah at the last you know that disco ? |
| 29 | The concept of the rural sector being exploited by the urban one retains some potency in such a centralized nation as Japan , and rural resentment at some of the decisions of Japan 's urban-oriented rulers is widespread . |