Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other is to apply to come back that I the interest that I . |
| 2 | I was most interested to read your review of the Columbus Myth by Ian Wilson , relating to various claims of some whom the author suggests were first-footers in America . |
| 3 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 4 | Yet if it is to this which the Epitome means to refer , it has suppressed too many qualifications to present an accurate view . |
| 5 | The proceedings were dominated by the developing study skills programme within the school , and it was this which the evaluators were assured was the major thrust of the school 's post-project library development . |
| 6 | It is the existence of this which the influx from outside threatens . |
| 7 | It is this which the laibon , his brother , wishes to bring to my attention . |
| 8 | Its not necessary the vehicles that are in the wrong its the people who drive them who are in the wrong |
| 9 | The passage of Resolution 678 was achieved before the deadline of Nov. 30 which the USA had set itself , and after which the chairmanship of the Security Council would pass by alphabetical rotation from the USA to Yemen for the month of December . |
| 10 | Some charities failed to make clear who the report was aimed at and ran too many pages of tightly packed detail . |
| 11 | But in this one the Tao was at war with itself . |
| 12 | Compared with the black and grey tones for the blue and red of the other roundels one might almost believe that on number five the roundel ring immediately inside the yellow is red and the inner spot is blue , although on this one the tail stripes appear similar to numbers one , two , four and six . |
| 13 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 14 | Another one The peasants up and down the valley lived and died in their special fashion . |
| 15 | There 's a bank holiday coming up now , there 's another one the end of May , |
| 16 | And if the under-sheet is rotated the opposite way to the top one the patient need not even get out . |
| 17 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 18 | No your alright , it wo n't knock you out , this it the thing , this is the great thing about this . |
| 19 | Now had I known about this it the time , of course he would not have stood a chance of getting into the RAF . |
| 20 | The authority spent twenty thousand pounds on the eviction , half what the squatters say they 'd have paid in rent over the two years |
| 21 | Your first offer should be about half what the merchant asks and you should beat him down from there . ’ |
| 22 | The level of lysine in straight cereals is less than half what the horse requires for hard work and reproduction . |
| 23 | The population of Tor Yvresse is less than half what the city was built to accommodate and the wide boulevards seem empty even when the entire population takes to the streets during the great Festival of Masques . |
| 24 | Was this what the pebbles were for ? |
| 25 | But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration . |
| 26 | Is n't this what the core of strategic thinking is all about ? |
| 27 | Was this what the murderer had done , leaving fingerprints which were by now enlarged and recorded and locked away at the police station , waiting to be produced at the trial ? |
| 28 | Is this what the devastation of war means , I asked myself ? |
| 29 | So far , it is only clear what the proposals do not contain . |
| 30 | It is not clear what the Court meant by this . |