Example sentences of "[adv] [det] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the fall , however , is due to the Gulf crisis , rather that the misfortunes of Vestel 's parent . |
| 2 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 3 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 4 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 5 | If you 're going away , pack only half the clothes you think you 'll want — everyone always takes too much ! |
| 6 | The endoscopic appearance suggested malignancy in only half the cases and was compatible with gastritis or a benign peptic ulcer in the remaineder . |
| 7 | If only half the stories are true , this is someone who attracts trouble . |
| 8 | At the big Mevasseret absorption centre near Jerusalem , where there are 77 Russian families in different stages of acclimatization , only half the breadwinners are working . |
| 9 | However , only half the states produced any statistics , it not being standard practice to record lunatics as part of the prison population . |
| 10 | Fuel efficiency will be reduced by around one mile ( 1.6 kilometres ) per gallon , but they will produce only half the emissions currently permitted under California standards , the strictest in the United States . |
| 11 | It was not unusual for reliefs to reach the front with only half the numbers that set out , nor for this nightmare approach march to last ten hours or longer . |
| 12 | The government blamed this on the fact that only half the rates were paid by domestic ratepayers . |
| 13 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 14 | In Orkney , where distance was a problem , only half the wives could have tackled an emergency on their own . |
| 15 | With only half the contents missing , it has paid me ten dollars more . |
| 16 | The objection to this arrangement is that only half the cellos are available for the important entries in the second and ninth bars , which are thus considerably weakened . |
| 17 | Between 1970 and 1980 owner occupancy was only declining in Fineview , house prices were increasing throughout the area and the elderly population was increasing above the average rate in only half the neighbourhoods . |
| 18 | Even if only half the entries were true , or nearly true , Earth had influenced just about every aspect of the worlds from which it was divided . |
| 19 | In some HAs only half the referrals to district nursing services comes from GPs . |
| 20 | The endoscopic aspect of the gastric lesions was clearly suggestive of malignancy in only half the patients . |
| 21 | thing early in the week out with him and he did n't know how to operate it , so half the tapes , I mean we checked them because he 's he 's got ta write down who is speaking on on those tapes |
| 22 | It 's not so much the equations |
| 23 | I tell you what the biggest racist are the black , black , not so much the blacks , are the Asians |
| 24 | I mean I do n't mind which institutional type you call it because it 's not so much the courses , it 's the numbers of people and the numbers of places you have to service |
| 25 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 26 | These two faculties , randomly chosen , would then be used for the sample with perhaps all the students , or a high proportion of them , being the sample . |
| 27 | Perhaps all the figures permuting in her head had somehow sapped her reality . |
| 28 | Perhaps all the neighbours in Reine would respond similarly . |
| 29 | Erm well the things I have to do are basically all the things listed on here still . |
| 30 | ( Try and solo all the severes at Bowden Doors sometime ! ) |