Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In houses where only the ground floor is centrally heated , the patient may not feel comfortable in the upstairs area , so if this is where he is to be , for other practical reasons , he will need heaters in his room , or the central heating system should be extended . |
| 2 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 3 | They will make fewer awkward demands than either the Catalans or the Basques . |
| 4 | The Labour party first committed itself to abolition of the House of Lords in 1910 , yet it has done less to diminish the power of hereditary peers than either the Liberals or Conservatives . |
| 5 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 6 | It 's a shame that the word ‘ refined ’ has acquired prissy connotations because both the shop and the stock of London 's newest lingerie outlet is refined in the best possible sense of the word . |
| 7 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 8 | A gasp of delight escaped her lips as instantly the gardens assumed a new and spellbinding dimension : thousands of light bulbs springing to life , outlining domes and minarets , and other graceful exotic images of the architects ' imagination . |
| 9 | It probably fooled the listeners as only the presenter knew I was actually in the studio . |
| 10 | This marked the recommencement of the peace process which had been under serious threat in recent months as both the FMLN and the government accused each other of not abiding by the conditions laid down in the January peace treaty [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 11 | Empirically , an immediate problem arises from the fact that ( 7 ) uses ex ante expectations of relative returns although only the ex post outturn is actually observed . |
| 12 | I prefer patterns that do n't produce large areas where only the cotton thread has knitted , so I tend to choose patterns that only have one or two punched holes ( or marked squares on electronic patterns ) counting horizontally . |
| 13 | Any realistic model should incorporate more elements than simply the relative importance of leading officers and councillors , otherwise a distorted and simplistic picture of power inside local authorities will emerge . |
| 14 | He does , however , urge that disclosure orders ought not to be made save in the most exceptional circumstances lest otherwise the public interest underlying the immunity be insidiously destroyed . |
| 15 | To make the buoyancy up to competition standards the foam is longer than used in similar models though overall the Aqua-Pak is about the same length . |
| 16 | For other plants where either the proportion of leaves to total biomass is not constant ( e.g. maize ) or the leaves are a smaller proportion of the biomass ( e.g. shrubs ) such a relationship may not exist . |
| 17 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 18 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 19 | As for our music sessions and lessons , they went on intermittently for several years until eventually the drums were abandoned , put away for the sake of both higher education and marriage . |
| 20 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 21 | The menu was 600 francs , and while the food was very simple it reminded me of what Provençal restaurants used to be like in the days before even the most ordinary of Provençal dishes became a " speciality " listed on the menu as a supplement at 750 francs . |
| 22 | The time for defence is then extended to four days after either the Crown gives notice to the court and to the plaintiff that it is satisfied with the information given , or the court decides that no further information is required . |
| 23 | That was twice as many workers as even the average Soviet factory employed and ten times as many as its West German equivalent . |
| 24 | ‘ Music that 's right for the time , ’ butts in drummer John ( yes , the drummer — you can tell a band is going places when even the stick-head looks good and demands to have his say ) . |
| 25 | Certain premises are excluded from the Act , e.g. small family businesses where only the immediate family are employed . |
| 26 | However , in families where only the father had achieved literacy , child mortality is lower than in others where neither parent had done so . |
| 27 | In other figures where both the bust and the head are expanded in this exaggerated way , the neck clearly presented a problem : by nature a slender form , it must now be used to connect convincingly two abnormally heavy masses . |
| 28 | Spring 1992 and the Spitfire was wheeled out of the hangar and engine runs commenced , only to find that there appeared to be oil pressure problems until finally the engine would not start at all , in fact the Merlin was locked solid . |
| 29 | This may be bad news if you do not have sufficient continuous service to qualify for rights if only the statutory period is added , although you would have had sufficient service if the longer notice period to which you are entitled under your contract were added . |
| 30 | At such moments it was difficult to remain calm , but she forced herself to concentrate on the figures until eventually the task was finished . |