Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 2 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
| 3 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
| 4 | The National Health Service as a public sector monopoly was an exemplar of everything the New Right most criticise . |
| 5 | First thing tomorrow he was going to phone the Chief Constable to request copies of everything the Old Bill found out . |
| 6 | However desirable , that might fly in the face of everything the 1984 decree was about . |
| 7 | In return , MIPS promised to pay for everything the ACE loyalists , largely the die-hards in the old Unix SVR4-loving Apache Group , needed for an independent software vendor recruitment drive : all the machines , all the binaries , all the technical support . |
| 8 | Otley seemed to be very cross about something the next day but I did n't bother to ask what . |
| 9 | Tried him with anything the other day when he were like this . |
| 10 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 11 | He had been so determined to be ungullible , city-wise that perhaps he had gone too far in the other direction , and so read a threat in everything the big city had to offer . |
| 12 | He was in something the other day which I watched . |
| 13 | Frenzied production one week gives way to nothing the next . |
| 14 | It requires government to speak with one voice , to act in a principled and coherent manner to ward all its citizens , to extend to everyone the substantive standards of justice or fairness it uses for some . |
| 15 | Well-intentioned though their desire was to make available to everyone the best information concerning hygiene , health care , child care , etc. , and although they always placed such recommendations in the context of ensuring that everyone , through improved wages and benefits , would live at least at a ‘ national minimum of civilized life ’ , the ‘ official interference ’ implied by their proposals was disliked as much by working people who would experience it , as by the Liberal bourgeoisie who were hostile to the principle . |
| 16 | In highlighted pen that you know so when he goes out with someone in ninete , in two thousand he 'll say to someone the last time I went out with someone was in nineteen ninety three . |
| 17 | The longer you survived after giving assets to someone the less tax they paid on the gift . |
| 18 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 19 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 20 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 21 | It would seem to anyone the perfect recipe for a good holiday but to these youngsters it is particularly special . |
| 22 | The less that character knows about anything the better . |
| 23 | His successors of whatever party will not be bound by anything the Noble Earl may say this afternoon , it is inconceivable that a Home Secretary in five or ten years time , also what Lord say in February nineteen ninety four , I really must n't do whatever er I thought of doing in er that given the fact that the Noble Earl Lord gave certain assurances , he will do whatever he considers on that occasion to be right |