Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It it it 's not the sort of thing when the gas man calls that the man is being having a gun pointed at him he says wait a minute can I see your card please . |
| 2 | This includes ensuring that a proper market and proper information exist for the products that the exchange trades ; and that transactions are properly recorded . |
| 3 | I think that 's a prudent way of going about things , it 's responsive t to the questions which you might possibly have read and but it does n't make over optimistic assessments about the likely savings that the council control . |
| 4 | Because if it is n't Dorrainge telling you how we 'll be defeated , it 's Lugh Longhand making speeches half the night . ’ |
| 5 | At four and a half months old , young pigs are taken for slaughter to be sold as pork ; at six months old the remainder meet their end as bacon . |
| 6 | As she kicked her legs high the air |
| 7 | Isabel had clung to those words all the way home , wrapped snugly in fitzAlan 's cloak , held fast in his arms . |
| 8 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes , turning the carrots all the time . |
| 9 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 10 | The bastard had been standing silently between her legs all the time : leering over her torment . |
| 11 | I then retraced my steps all the way back round to Crib Goch because the position of the sun allowed me renewed photo opportunities from its rim — a rim now 40 feet above me as I lay on a ledge . |
| 12 | I know , there 's steps all the way up the front |
| 13 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 14 | I know it 's done in offices all the time , but I found it to be quite a project . |
| 15 | The music will tell you what to do , so you have to look for new technical solutions all the time . |
| 16 | You would n't have caught the late French President doing that , even when being shot at , and my De Gaulle also wore spectacles all the time , but the nose and toothbrush moustache were the same . |
| 17 | So before SuperSparc corrals all the business , he 's sending Sun messages in the press that if it does n't buy HyperSparc — also known as Pinnacle — he 's going to turn round and do the Alpha for DEC . |
| 18 | Gives , gives her the cramps all the way across here . |
| 19 | She was on Beth 's heels all the way back to the drawing room , and now , when Beth was seated in the big armchair and eagerly slitting open the envelope with the tortoise-shell letter-knife , Cissie was kneeling on the floor beside her . |
| 20 | But it must be tiresome for him to have you constantly tagging at his heels all the time . ’ |
| 21 | The Mites over school age resented being with kids all the time and tried to assert their freedom . |
| 22 | Those bastards , I do n't mean the squareheaded bastards across the fields , I mean the bastards who are sending all this shit over our heads all the time . ’ |
| 23 | There was a solid line of cars all the way back to it , drivers peering ahead or craning their heads out of the window . |
| 24 | Encouraged by this , she drew pictures all the way down the menu , and with a great deal of giggling all round she returned triumphantly to the kitchen . |
| 25 | And er , if I was to put entries all the way across the top of this spreadsheet like this , and then , all the way across the bottom of the spreadsheet , do you know how I got to the bottom so quickly , by the way ? |
| 26 | There are many levels of creativity , from craftsmen all the way to poetic sages ; even the creation of a good joke can be deemed an act of creation . |
| 27 | Now one of the things that we have in this city that I do n't think they have as many in Ipswich are students and that must be one of the biggest , they are they party revellers of the century , they have parties all the time . |
| 28 | Yeah but I do n't know what they 're on about anyway , they have erm wild parties all the time . |
| 29 | And doctors look in people 's ears all the time , but eight out of ten do n't know what they are looking at . |
| 30 | Because there were shops all the way down Boulevard . |