Example sentences of "[adj] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a moment or two he asked : ‘ Did that knock on the head kill him ? ’ |
| 2 | And how does that compare with the same period last year ? ’ |
| 3 | Yugoslavia was without a federal budget until June 1991 , because Croatia and Slovenia could not agree on what percentage of the budget to allocate to the military , or on what contributions they should each make to the federal budget . |
| 4 | Just as a matter of interest , how would that relate to the er , claim for the housewife , who had had a finger amputated . |
| 5 | You ca n't bear it any longer , does that act as the same ? |
| 6 | How long could each survive without the other ? |
| 7 | What difference does this make to the relationship and interaction between the couple concerned ? |
| 8 | The Area Sec has the right to relate directly to Waterloo , but how does this relate to the role of Nat Sec who needs to be informed ? |
| 9 | Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened . |
| 10 | It was only when she moved in that she discovered the coincidence , and did some research with the British Museum . |
| 11 | How does this compare with the precautions needed for other file organizations ? |
| 12 | How does this compare with the practice in British domestic legislation ? |
| 13 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 14 | We could barely hear one another speak above the sound of the nearby mill-race . |
| 15 | If a mains transformer has a secondary rated at 9V , 100mA , does this refer to the a.c. output or the d.c. after rectification ? |
| 16 | There was a dish before the main meal ( could this refer to the bitter herbs ? ) |
| 17 | Does this battle of the sexes on the motorways affect country roads , too ? |
| 18 | And what would this do to the myth of the great man in reserve ? |
| 19 | Does this sound like the behaviour of men directing a criminal operation boasting an annual turnover four times that of IBM ? |
| 20 | Does n't this conflict with the basic aim of emotion , and action , of reaching a general stance in and towards the world with which one can be content , just as inconsistency in belief conflicts with the basic aim of belief , namely truth ? |
| 21 | Diving animals need some grasp of the difference between solids and fluids , as well as of depth , movement , and distance . |
| 22 | Was this did this occur for the whole hosiery industry not just |
| 23 | How does this work in the case of theories of racism ? |
| 24 | All the more unfortunate does this become in the presence of narrow majorities , each representing a minority of the electorate , sometimes a small minority , and when at least one of the parties believes that the prerogatives and rights conferred by electoral victory , however narrow , not merely entitle but compel it to impose on the helpless but unorganized majority irreversible changes for which it never consciously voted and to which most of its members are opposed . |
| 25 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 26 | Coburn was a solicitor who did some work for the defendant , Colledge , in 1889 . |
| 27 | It was again Aisa Briggs who said now come on , you know , we 've helped you with the movie , come and do some work for the university , and I did n't need any encouragement . |
| 28 | right , I 'll shall go and do some work in the kitchen then the |
| 29 | When a society is stable , for instance , do all its ISAs fulfil their legitimating function , or do some work against the interests of the dominant classes of the society ? |
| 30 | Of course the younger user is unlikely to continually switch between the three , but continuity of product and of interface is still very important — my six year old expects to find certain controls linked to certain keys — how do you answer the question ‘ why does n't this key to the same as in the other Fun School ones ? ? ? ’ . |