Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paid all her gambling debts the very next day . |
| 2 | The greater this interaction between chains the more favourable will be the energy parameter and this provides some indication of the type of chain which might be expected to crystallize from the melt , viz. |
| 3 | But this is not some chance paradox of history ; it arises in the psychological truth that in modern totalitarian states the purely internal and irrational conflicts of the psychoses can become external and quite real . |
| 4 | By the end of the seventeenth century she already possessed what seemed to many contemporaries the most efficient diplomatic organization in Europe , one which had at its disposal able negotiators , plentiful funds , expert knowledge and the prestige of past success . |
| 5 | Alpaca , with their short necks the most sheepish of llamas , kept the grass down , picking next to the grey , mossed stone . |
| 6 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 7 | In many cases the most probable answers can be set down in advance and this helps enormously towards analysis . |
| 8 | In these cases the most useful and straightforward method of determining the mint is to study the location of find spots or provenances . |
| 9 | And in m in many cases the most cost-effective procedure will be for the lad on site , the R E or the assistant R E to measure , and provide the measure to the Q Ss who will put that forward and process that in the way they do now and send out a certificate . |
| 10 | When your own practice starts it is of the utmost importance to give your cases the most meticulous attention of which you are capable , and particularly , before going into court , to familiarise yourself with the various procedural contingencies . |
| 11 | In many cases the more successful a town the less likely is the chance of seeing its early development . |
| 12 | The influences just outlined are in most cases the more important ones but they are by no means the only ones — nor are they exclusive . |
| 13 | In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore . |
| 14 | For all these reasons the apparently draconian central powers contained in the 1984 Rates Act had a surprisingly limited effect in terms not only of the numbers of authorities rate-capped but also in terms of the capping limits actually imposed . |
| 15 | For similar reasons the more traditional / / is used instead of / / for the vowel of fin . |
| 16 | Ca , can I just do that then , with , with , yes , excuse me Kevin , I think we we voiced that one , we can see there 's , there a lot , will obviously be increased er er traffic , er from the site , er and it it 's clear that that the bigger the houses the more likely there is we 'd have increased traffic . |
| 17 | The greater the return to shareholders the more attractive it will be to invest in the company and hence the higher the valuation of the company in the view of the Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | whiskas THE MOST PREFERRED CAT FOOD |
| 19 | Profit-related pay ( Chapter III , Part V , Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ) offers employers the most spectacular savings . |
| 20 | The maximum penalty for mutiny in the Philippines is a life sentence , but in five previous coup attempts the most severe punishment for leaders was 12 years ' hard labour . |
| 21 | Broadly speaking , the higher an individual is in the social strata the less likely he or she is to be arrested , prosecuted and ( if prosecuted ) found guilty . |
| 22 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 23 | In ancient times the most common additive , or temper , was quartz sand , which simply dilutes the concentrations of the chemical elements . |
| 24 | ‘ Escape ’ from hard times is a cultural necessity and the harder the times the more fantastic and precarious and desperate a business it becomes . |
| 25 | It was this beautiful lady that blew her top in 1450 BC with four times the explosively destructive power of Krakatoa . |
| 26 | Fig-wasps The most celebrated ‘ one-to-one ’ interactions involve the genus Ficus ( figs ) and its pollinators , the wasps of the Agaonidae , related figs having related wasps . |
| 27 | Over the five years of TRANSAID 's operations the most recurring need has been to provide advice on transport management and control . |
| 28 | To publish critical anthologies is to court redundancy , but the Kael corpus endures : fast , funny and incisive , her distinctive style remains the most influential , and her opinions the most quoted of any reviewer . |
| 29 | Boulding ( 1968 ) has identified the crisis of science as arising from the fact that communication among disciplines and subdisciplines is increasingly difficult so that the greater the fragmentation into subgroups the more likely that the total growth of knowledge may be inhibited . |
| 30 | Thus if the plan is to send out a release on a new range of products the most useful sections can be immediately picked out of the list . |