Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 2 | Where which probably the parents when I was doing midwifery would have said the same thing but there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 3 | Or it not the hospital . |
| 4 | And I certainly do n't mean to be marriagist or altar-ist or whatever else the expression is n't . |
| 5 | Then they go at camping school or whatever wherever the school 's going . |
| 6 | Did n't have a long walk or anything so the next schedule go out is erm is |
| 7 | So it , this has some things in the picture gain importance , although I still the black and white ones . |
| 8 | I just thought I 'd try running that one up the flagpole to see if anyone would salute ’ |
| 9 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 10 | De Gaulle , essentially a man of the radio age , and Mitterrand , who prefers the pen to the mike , ’ determined more than anyone else the relationship between the state and television . |
| 11 | He was aware that what exactly the words meant was in a curious way less urgently important than the necessity of uttering them . |
| 12 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 13 | In short , the intelligence of insects , like that of our species , seems to be more than anything else the intelligence of evolutionary necessity . |
| 14 | The century 's economic expansion reflected perhaps more than anything else the rapid growth and partial diffusion of wealth through the upper reaches of the Tudor and Stuart social pyramid . |
| 15 | The Rover 600 is the latest , newest model to come out od Cowley and it represents more than anything else the regeneration of the works . |
| 16 | It was true if you had an American boyfriend you stood to gain quite a bit in material goods , as their PX always seemed to be well stocked with food and silk stockings , cigarettes and make-up — all things in short supply in England — and for this reason if nothing else the Yanks were never short of female company . |
| 17 | No no cos if nothing else the goats will |
| 18 | and that 's what and I completely the checkout girl because I , I know her quite well , we always have to guess the same one , we have a bit of a laugh and I said do you want to be erm part of a national survey on s this English er on spoken English and she said oh , alright , so I said there you are your on |
| 19 | Cos er we went through it last year and I all the sizes that we only supplied , I just put them up |
| 20 | Then , very slowly , fearful of making the slightest movement that might start the surface on an avalanche course and himself down the incline , he stretched out his arm towards Sheila . |
| 21 | right , and its only the last couple of weeks that we 've really picked up |
| 22 | The innocence that prevailed at the School concerning sexual matters was symbolised by the fig leaves which had been attached to the plaster casts of male nudes and which eventually the girls removed . |
| 23 | The particular characteristics of a school — time and timetables , fact and figures , books and writing , tests and class orders — belong to a category of ideas which are separate from those in the village and which both the teacher and the parent accept as school business . |
| 24 | A second matter of doubt surrounds the meanings of ‘ Parliament ’ and ‘ proceedings ’ therein to which and which only the privilege attaches . |
| 25 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 26 | And nobody Even the church I mean I know the church ca n't agree on anything at the moment , we 're sitting here just down the road of course , the general synod of the church of whatsit and the archbishop of thingummybob is sitting there over their muesli and cornflakes I should imagine at the moment , or a late brunch , erm n not saying anything . |
| 27 | I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser . |
| 28 | It leads to Nova Iguacu , one of the satellite cities of Rio , and itself now the eighth largest city in the country , with a population of 1.2 million . |
| 29 | But if you up the financial incentive to achieve , then that too might change ’ . |
| 30 | Although we might be prepared outside our normal scheme to fund the current year 's training for such people on the understanding that future funding will not be available , so in other words if somebody comes along to you and says , I 'd like to do an M B A , beginning this year , now normally we we would say , yes , we will contribute our half to that cost , er and that would then be a high priority on our budget to provide continued support for the rest of that M B A course , we 're now saying that that the answer is actually no , because we can not provide support next year , we do n't think , er but if you never the less want to go ahead this year and then fund it yourself from then on , then we we have actually got money available which we can use this year . |