Example sentences of "[det] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our results agree in the distribution of proliferation indices by compartments , in that mostly the highest proliferative activity was found in the second compartment when five compartments were calculated . |
| 2 | Some writers have argued that since the parties became so strong , it was inevitable that the influence formerly exercised on the floor of the House should decline but that much the same influence is still exercised by the meetings of the parliamentary parties . |
| 3 | ‘ Is n't that all the more reason to give him your support ? ’ |
| 4 | They 'd both had little enough the previous night . |
| 5 | that only the final product of the primary school system is worthy of serious evaluation ; |
| 6 | But the point is what we 're being told is effectively that only the rich can have second marriages , that 's what this Child Support Act brings about . |
| 7 | This is the sort of thing , so an undertaker told me , that only the Irish do in Britain these days ! |
| 8 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 9 | For example , one Inner London library authority indicated that access to funds was available through the Head of Personnel and Management Services , for post-entry in-service training , but that only the total available to the Council ( £100,000/£101,200 ) was known . |
| 10 | Barro focused on the other major prediction of that model : that only the unpredictable movement in aggregate demand affects real variables such as output and unemployment — his contribution is discussed in section 6.2 . |
| 11 | But is that necessarily the only theistic position ? |
| 12 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 13 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 14 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 15 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 16 | But when he realized by late afternoon that none of the farmers at Casterbridge wanted a farm manager , or even a shepherd , he decided to try his luck at another fair the next day . |
| 17 | Is this perhaps the only conception of rationality which is viable in the late twentieth century ? |
| 18 | This not the early 1980s , when new members entered the party to the left ; old members exited to the right ; and Labour voters deserted . |
| 19 | But then again , maybe I 'm wrong , for is this not the same Labour Group which now proclaims to be our cultural guardians , who , my Lord Mayor , only last year , sought , in that most bohemian of ways , to dispose of all of civic treasures in one giant car boot sale . |
| 20 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |
| 21 | How did she with this we just need to type over it No , we do , I mean you do this just the same as any normal report , you do the first one and then you edit it and make yeah , yeah . |
| 22 | I seem to have gone into this exactly the same somehow . |
| 23 | We had all this out the last time . |
| 24 | We 'll sort this out the slow way . |
| 25 | Is this really the best Britain has to offer ? |
| 26 | Is this really the best way to encourage keen young players ? |
| 27 | ‘ Is this really the best you can do ? ’ |
| 28 | At this even the boldest goat fled to the nearest hut for fear of reprisal , and from the cover of the walls watched the frustrated officer screaming at sentries , Poles , hut and bicycle in turn . |
| 29 | Yeah , well he was , when he was littler his dad was sort of saying one day you 'll have all this then the next minute he was saying no you wo n't , you wo n't be having any of it do you know what I mean ? |
| 30 | Is this then the last temptation ? he wrote . |