Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Those among the contented who own to a social conscience may not fully appreciate that the conditions suffered by the urban underclass can be marginally less unendurable than those they have escaped from ( whether in the American South , Puerto Rico or the shanty towns of the West Indies ) . |
2 | The closer you get to an election , a general election campaign , the clearer things 'll become for them . |
3 | And , the more you put in a spreadsheet , the more and more of the conventional memory you are using up , and eventually when you fill up your conventional memory , you get a memory fault . |
4 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
5 | I mean Mr Chairman it may just say honestly , I mean this is among ourselves from the commercial point of view there 's no doubt about it , I 'm in the grocery trade , the more you get on a lorry when you deliver you get every single |
6 | Oh , what the whole part of the problem running is , is the depreciation thing , the more , the more you spend on a car the more the more depreciation you 're going to get |
7 | This is the nearest we get to an announcement that his long hibernation has transformed him . |
8 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
9 | These again suit our mood , but at the last we turn for a final lingering view of the Parthenon , reflecting perhaps on the ultimate destiny of the material works of man . |
10 | Users fell basically into two groups : there were the milder peace-loving ‘ Smile on your brother ’ types , whose philosophy was invoked by Jefferson Airplane 's hit record using that phrase , or the far more violent set who were emerging with hard rock and the free-as-the-wind Hell 's Angels , the unkempt , unwashed , tough and brutal rabble who were the built-in bad guys of the counter-culture ; they made the gangs in Rebel Without a Cause and Brando 's The Wild One look like a Sunday school gathering . |
11 | This results from uncertainty about the segmentation of the input string ( i.e. where does one character stop and the next one start in a cursive word ) . |