Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | all figures must be reliable ; where possible explain the degree of reliability |
| 2 | But they 're more likely to bump into the Great Dragon of the North Sea , or Half Tan the Black , alias John Cleese . |
| 3 | Prosecuting individual corporate executives , particularly where some have the dubious ‘ responsibility for going to jail ’ ( Braithwaite 1981b : 35 ) in exchange for premature elevation to a high salaried but non-responsible position , is simply missing the point . |
| 4 | How able or willing have the courts been to safeguard prisoners ' interests when conditions under the Act become intolerable ? |
| 5 | If both units are in use or unavailable inform the New OED Computer Group representative who will issue further instructions . |
| 6 | If both units are in use or unavailable inform the New OED Computer Group representative who will issue further instructions . |
| 7 | If both units are in use or unavailable inform the New OED Computer Group representative who will issue further instructions . |
| 8 | Decisions about design , especially where these involve the introduction of technological innovations , can then be interpreted both as reflecting priorities within a society and as influencing the ways in which technological developments will affect that society . |
| 9 | Section B : sub-sections 2 , 3 , & 5 exclude the first £25 of each claim under each section . |
| 10 | And from June to early September we sail to the barbecue on Anti-Paxos , where many stay the night , sleeping under the starts on the fine white sand beach . |
| 11 | ‘ Men of 45 or 50 have the opportunity of a second summer , having children by a second partner ; women of the same age do n't have that . |
| 12 | He busied himself with the electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee , and in a moment or two put the hot drink in front of her . |
| 13 | One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation . |
| 14 | I wrote following instructions because I wanted to somehow or other impart the ability to actually er , do something other than just er , to do something on their own , you know to actually work on their own . |
| 15 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 16 | These are the sort of facilities already enjoyed by MPs who can somehow or other find the money to pay for them : they should be fully at the disposal of those who ca n't . |
| 17 | But , despite repeated public protestations to the contrary , senior politicians of both main parties have been discreetly considering their tactics in the event that neither Conservatives nor Labour secure the 326 seats needed to win immediate power . |
| 18 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 19 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 20 | Note that more than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , provided that each satisfy the above conditions . |
| 21 | The survey of district managers — who are responsible for buying health care for the people in their area — by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts showed that : FEWER than half support the system of opt-out hospitals . |
| 22 | But more than half want the law to enable social workers to intervene more . |
| 23 | MORE than half say the new system imposes excessive administrative work . |
| 24 | There is no text entry for ‘ dinosaur ’ , but the index gives 11 references that together cover these creatures thoroughly , although some reveal the British distaste for an impact as the cause of the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction . |
| 25 | Although few have the physical strength to repel their attackers , even a relatively feeble animal can deter aggressors if it has chemical weapons . |
| 26 | On the other hand , by far the commonest qualification of clauses is by single property words , and whenever there is a choice of form available , English shows unambiguously that these take the adverbial form , used in property qualification , and not the adjectival form needed for entity qualification : ( 71 ) the baker , finally successful , produced a wonderful cake ( 72 ) her final success was all the sweeter after the failures ( 73 ) finally , the droschke was repaired ( 74 ) final , the droschke was repaired |
| 27 | It is felt that these require the full-time attention of a senior director to ensure complete compliance , that our company is at the forefront in this area and is proactive in improving our standards . |
| 28 | Of course , some bivalves , like mussels and oysters , do remain fixed throughout their adult life , and it is possible that these fill the ecological role today of some of the large brachiopods of the Palaeozoic . |
| 29 | Gonzalez-Casanova , using statistics for numbers of strikes per year , suggests that these follow the presidential-type policy of the government of the day . |
| 30 | D'Indy may be excused for missing the point of Rameau 's ‘ tied ’ and slurred crotchets : only in our own time has it been realised that these denote the kind of tremolo recently studied by Stewart Carter . |