Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hesitated before answering , still apprehensive about what the next day would bring . |
| 2 | For its part , Scottish Nuclear has also embarked on a programme to reduce the cost of electricity it produces for the Scottish power companies from 3.2p per unit last year to a target level of 2.5p to ensure the operation remains financially strong and profitable for whatever the future might hold . |
| 3 | If I am right about what the fluke genes are doing , it follows that we can legitimately speak of fluke genes as influencing snail bodies , in just the same sense as snail genes influence snail bodies . |
| 4 | The Julians subscribed to the idea that one grew and was grateful for whatever the country best produced . |
| 5 | I welcome the Government 's initiative to help the homeless , and we are grateful for what the Department of the Environment has done . |
| 6 | I am grateful for what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said . |
| 7 | I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said , because it enables me to explain that proposals for a local income tax relating it to ability to pay have been rejected in Committee and on Report , so we are now in the business of trying to improve this unfair tax which is based on property . |
| 8 | The person you are dealing with will also find it far easier to be helpful if she/he is clear about what the problem is and what you want . |
| 9 | Before the selection process begins , candidates need to be clear about what the job abroad entails . |
| 10 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 11 | ‘ Local interpretation ’ probably relates to another strategy which instructs the hearer / reader to do as little processing as possible , only to construct a representation which is sufficiently specific to permit an interpretation which is adequate for what the hearer judges the purpose of the utterance to be . |
| 12 | Despite a piddling little incident in Aberdeen in 1989 when he was reported to the Procurator Fiscal for what the law delicately describes as ‘ a public nuisance offence ’ , Nicholas began to re-build his reputation at Aberdeen , a city whose heritage was built on fish and has the highest concentration of chip shops in Scotland . |
| 13 | Again , Howell is unequivocal about what the event — which is also organised by Glasgow Development Agency , Scottish Software Federation , itacs at Strathclyde University and the computing science department of Glasgow University — should achieve . |
| 14 | Er you must you must be clear of what the right answer is . |
| 15 | They are less afraid of what the community will say . |
| 16 | Between the two of them there grew up so great an affection that King Henry was much alarmed and , afraid of what the future might hold in store , he decided to postpone his return to England until he knew what lay behind this sudden friendship . " |
| 17 | The little goblin , who was terribly afraid of what the king of the vookodlaks would do to him if Yanek went home to look after his grandfather , gave him a great push . |
| 18 | She licked her dry lips , afraid of what the next few minutes would reveal . |
| 19 | What do you think is wrong with what the assistant is saying ? |
| 20 | What 's wrong with us the way we are ? |
| 21 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |
| 22 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 23 | High above us the celestial spheres of satellite communication look down upon us , observing any change in the weather , any reshuffle in the quiver of minutemen missiles in the United States ' desert arsenal , any time Mrs McGinty fails to hang out her Tuesday wash . |
| 24 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 25 | What a fellow member of its same species sees of it , is quite different from what the individual feels about itself . |
| 26 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 27 | And of course he meant something probably rather different from what the popular meaning is . |
| 28 | We could not claim , as part of the explicit extension , that if the words of a statute are clear in themselves the law contains that clear meaning , for example . |
| 29 | At Isleten a narrow mountain road ( used by the postbus ) also swings off to the left , running for 19km ( 12 miles ) to the rocky and romantic Isenthal from which the ascent to the ice-capped Uri Rotstock is approached . |
| 30 | Suddenly other EC countries are interested in what the British have to say . |