Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is seldom the old who seduce the young .
2 Pride in the nation 's system of government , once shared by all , has degenerated into complacency about its superiority , believed only by the few who exercise the near despotic powers that its outmoded forms have given them .
3 No it will say on the the actual you know the bottom bit on the other side .
4 Do the hard I do the easy one you do the hard one .
5 For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation .
6 Into the first I put the rich young owner 's suit , cashmere pullover and showy shirts and into the second the new younger-looking clothes for off-duty Tommy , jeans , sweatshirts , woolly hat and trainers .
7 Frank Hampson 's brilliantly executed colour illustrations in the ‘ Dan Dare ’ strip of the Fifties and early Sixties often depicted futuristic buildings of the 1990s which bore a remarkable similarity to the Erskine block .
8 Erm no I think the former I think the Parliamentary
9 The most advanced type of stave church has another row of poles or pillars inside the four which frame the external wall and this row supports its own part of the divided roof .
10 No , it was the last you know the dramatic end that everybody who 's been waiting for watching that film from seven o'clock till
11 In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " .
12 Erm it 's for it 's it 's in order that , that in the nineties we have a historical record , I think I 'm I think I 'm saying this right , there is a historical record of the kind of words that are being introduced into the into our language into our vocabulary like for example i.e.
13 The earlier you discuss a potential or actual problem with the lender , the more chance there is of being able to arrange matters satisfactorily .
14 The earlier you discuss a potential or actual problem with the lender , the more chance there is of being able to arrange matters satisfactorily .
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