Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The redder the light , the farther and faster the galaxy . |
| 2 | A man who finds a ready market among the ever-hopeful for his protective devices , was shown with a radiation-checker which would enable families to decide who is the one with the leastest and therefore the candidate to go outside first . |
| 3 | This gives the slope of the CML and hence the measure could be used to position portfolio performance in the risk return space . |
| 4 | It 's the same model that Bruce Springsteen uses , and I use the six and also the 12-string versions . |
| 5 | A chance observer saw the sling being used by the second and soon the rumour was circulating that Paul Ross had used ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Prodigal Sons ( a later companion route to Deja Vu ) . |
| 6 | If nothing is done , the regulations already passed will continue improving air quality until the mid-1990s but then the growth in population , and car numbers , will send pollution rising again , indefinitely . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And during those two weeks in Grasmere , Mrs Moore became convinced that you would — ’ again the blank and again the word was conjured up between them like a spirit conjured from the mountain . |
| 8 | The maize or Indian corn is what you may well be most conscious of here , a crop introduced into the western Pyrenees in the 1600s and long a staple there , occupying now nearly half the cultivated space . |
| 9 | Erm by insuring that direct line , and that we have training facilities here which are part of the social contract , and that we have er investment , through regional investment , in this particular area , then we can create jobs that suit the skills that we 've er made available to the general population , and that we got through that rail link a direct line access to all the markets within Europe , which is going to expand , er not withstanding my objections , from the twelve to the sixteen and right the way through to Russia . |
| 10 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 11 | This second bid avoided reference to the MMC and thus the way was open for a contested takeover battle between Guinness and Argyll for control of Distillers . |
| 12 | The Victorian obsession with comfort has some relation to this conviction , for the first and even the final — test of a home is whether it makes the visitor feel at ease . |
| 13 | There were two lofts and the wedding was in the one and then the home brew and the stuff was kept in the other and the food . |
| 14 | This is referred to as a form of idolatry ; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization . |
| 15 | and of course , as I say , being at Cambridge there was a little theatre there and er we used to see so many of the actors and actresses that used to come into our lives you see because there were five places on the station , for instance , there was the tea room adjoining the , there was a large kiosk , large kiosk one girl in there , you see , and er there was , then there was this large which is the biggest and then the dining room that , you see and er so and , and one year I , I wrote it down but erm , one year I remember we took forty four thousand pounds which was a lot of money and er , you see , well er I got on very well with the girls |
| 16 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 17 | In the 1960s and subsequently the discovery of the need to study processes led to appreciation of the need for familiarity with subject matter from interdisciplinary origins and to acquire and develop techniques that could be employed for process investigations and particularly for empirical measurements . |
| 18 | Charles Dudgeon , operations director at the Stevenage plant said : ‘ Following the acquisition many changes were introduced and performance suffered as the market reacted with apprehension to the unknown but now the wisdom of the shake-up is evident . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 20 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 21 | It was more than the feudal relationship between king and king-duke , it was the overlapping and ultimately the conflict of two growing structures of government . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |