Example sentences of "the [adj] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 2 | In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world . |
| 3 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 4 | Thus the quarrel between Megara and Corinth , which drove the former to detach herself from the Peloponnesian League in 461 and join Athens , was originally over boundary land . |
| 5 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 6 | Your Committee being by nature shy , retiring , modest people , would be the last to compare themselves with the Captains and Kings — more like your temporary , acting , unpaid Lance Corporals , — Dogsbodies one and all . |