Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts . |
| 2 | To celebrate this , OUP has found 1,000 new phrasal verbs from somewhere for the latter publication to take the tally to 11,000 entries . |
| 3 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 4 | The simplest one is that the world would be a better place if people were better able to talk coherently about the many language problems which arise in contemporary society . |
| 5 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 6 | They coincided with Mrs Yaxlee 's own ideas closely enough for the latter to trust her to do the shopping while at the same time failing to include her in the invitation which she so palpably wanted . |
| 7 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
| 8 | Much about the same I suppose is it , or slightly dearer ? |
| 9 | Potential and confirmed breeders of tropical fish really should see this one if only for the many tips they 'll acquire . |
| 10 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 11 | A single national centre is appropriate only for the few services which involve delivery to all addresses in Britain ( e.g. mail order ) , very occasional visits ( e.g. specialized medical advice ) or a particular type of service or activity with a client group that lives close to it and is not represented elsewhere in the country ( e. g. certain elements of central government , the national media and business services ) . |
| 12 | Possibly because of its immensely larger bulk , antarctic ice has changed far less during the same period . |
| 13 | The cost of connection for the new service will be about 20% more per minute , but should still cost the user less for the same operation . |
| 14 | Placebo effects are also seen in allergy , perhaps for the same reason . |
| 15 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 17 | However , the whole matter was another aspect of one of the storms in a set of teacups that accompanied the whole unhappy Profumo matter and has continued to do so for the many years since it was first raised . |
| 18 | Still , it was true in the main , so for the few weeks she was to be in Venice she would take the greatest care to have as little to do with him as possible . |
| 19 | A common result of this is that when the philosophers deny autonomy to women , they do so for the same sorts of reason that they deny it to children and cite lack of rationality , capriciousness and vulnerability among their characteristics . |
| 20 | ‘ So for the same weekly payments any council tenant can start along the road to ownership . |
| 21 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 22 | This is a very important benefit , especially for the many single women in their fifties who are sacrificing their career to look after an elderly parent . |
| 23 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 24 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 25 | Sometimes portraits of mature adults were used for children and adolescents , not necessarily of the same sex as the intended subject . |
| 26 | It is necessarily of the same quality as the data used to support managerial control , because it is that data , used for a different purpose ; and because the data is of a type already in currency , its use needs no special explanation or defence . |
| 27 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 28 | The driver 's morals were obviously of the same low standard as his/her driving , as no apology or name and address was left . |
| 29 | In my book , there is nothing this ex-president has done , or said , since leaving the White House which is worthy of attention — especially considering the many worthy things ex-presidents can do and say . |
| 30 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |