Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And remembering how furiously the Larks and the Covington-Pyms — and no doubt Goldsborough himself — had opposed the opening of parliament to the new and much despised middle-classes , he wondered afresh why the captain should now be murmuring against his own kin . |
| 2 | Presumably the materials that were bought not are still there . |
| 3 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
| 4 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 5 | First-preference votes are presumably the votes that have been most seriously considered . |
| 6 | While we do not expect the Revenue to provide a canteen service , presumably the inspectors and their staff have tea-making facilities at their offices . |
| 7 | Well presumably the men as well . |
| 8 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflec-ting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 9 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflecting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 10 | It was an appalling time of tyranny and religious persecution in which all classes of Scottish society , but mostly the ministers and farmers , and mainly in Ayrshire and Galloway , took the lead in resisting the final efforts of the Monarchy to install Episcopacy , many paying with their lives for adherence to their faith . |
| 11 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 12 | Mr Snowden was released by firemen just before 8 am and police opened one lane of the eastbound A45 around 10 am purely to help clear the tailbacks that had built up . |
| 13 | And once again the autocracy appeared unable to mobilise effectively the resources that they created , through an industrial economy , to fight a modern war . |
| 14 | It is not the purpose of this book to study these problems , but rather the changes that in an earlier century began to alter our attitude towards death . |
| 15 | It 's not just the better the members that we 've got working in the Health Service , it 's about everybody in the room and everybody in the country who wants to use it and we 've got ta get it a bi a bit higher up on the agenda at this union and I hope Mick , that you can give us the confidence and give us the commitment , that that 's what we 're gon na get from this union . |
| 16 | Having completed this basic indoctrination , the budding smallholder will know better the joys and frustrations , the rewards and risks , the freedom and the discipline that make up farming . |
| 17 | And suddenly the emotions that went tearing through her were so terrifying , so cataclysmic , that she had to thrust them from her . |
| 18 | They are basically the nuts and bolts of the er the report , if anyone has any questions questions I 'd rather not hear it , |
| 19 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 20 | Strangely enough , it was the trade 's New World upstarts , especially the Californians and Australians , who led the way spending millions to pioneer the new technology which has changed the face of wine beyond recognition . |
| 21 | all parts strongly aromatic , especially the leaves and seeds , a mixture of aniseed and a distinctive aroma of its own |
| 22 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 23 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 24 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 25 | What was a story about an evil-intentioned crocodile that meets a sticky end is now a story about friendship and respect for animals , especially the reptiles that were the writer 's current favourite animal . |
| 26 | Also he pointed out that the portions of the castle most liable to be hit by missiles , especially the parapets and roofs , could be thickened in the masonry , and reinforced to good effect . |
| 27 | This was a rich , fertile field for those judicial disputes upon which many throve — especially the lawyers and officers in the pay of either side . |
| 28 | Regular exercise helps to strengthen and thicken bones , especially the amounts and types of exercise discussed at the beginning of this chapter ; and for those less agile , there are exercises recommended for the prevention of osteoporosis . |
| 29 | But he 's been keeping the opticians in business — especially the ones that stock really old-fashioned frames — ever since we were at school together . |
| 30 | When returned to power in1988 , Jack Lang took some of the opposition 's criticism to heart and also switched his priorities to the heritage , especially the cathedrals and historic gardens , to restoration and to education , although today he is still attacked by the opposition for neglecting these fields . |