Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 2 | That does not mean that I or the Labour party agree with those proposals . |
| 3 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 4 | Both summarize complicated interests and classes , and we need constantly to remind ourselves that the overwhelming majority of people of different religions live together in peace . |
| 5 | A deflection more linearly dependent on the current I than the square law can be achieved by making good use of the fact that the torque also depends on cos θ where θ defines the orientation of the suspended coil as shown in figure 7.2(a) . |
| 6 | This morning I spoke briefly to Terry Waite while he was on board the aircraft returning home and was able to express the delight that I and the whole country felt at his safe return and at Mr. Sutherland 's release . |
| 7 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 8 | For that reality too may be reinterpreted philosophically as an illusion , a world of appearances , what Schopenhauer calls " the veil of maya " , interposed between ourselves and the ultimate reality — by which is meant the ground of being , the primordial oneness or unity of all individual things . |
| 9 | As he had become an English citizen and relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union were , when he died , a great deal pricklier than they are today , this caused considerable suspicion and distrust among the fiscal authorities of both countries . |
| 10 | For the horticultural work , links need to be established and maintained between ourselves and the major gardening programme makers , specialist gardening magazines , and the gardening correspondents of the major newspapers . |
| 11 | In the course of our psychic experiences with the objects of our feelings in our environment we build up an inner world which is peopled by ourselves and the residual images of these objects . |
| 12 | Shortage of newsprint was another link , and I was constantly in touch with Singapore , London and Calcutta about supplies , which when they came were divided as fairly as possible between ourselves and the independent newspapers . |
| 13 | Male or female Kiefer Sutherland look-alikes and fans of his and The Lost Boys film gladly accepted . |
| 14 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 15 | Her knees touched his and the tiny contact sent a quiver of anticipation up her spine . |
| 16 | Now the prize was his and the serious work was begun . |
| 17 | Was it any fault of his if the Welsh rebels had made prisoner a Mortimer , at this moment the most formidable of the Mortimers ? |
| 18 | So it 's a drain on , on the time , not just his but the knock-on effect . |
| 19 | I as the old bill grabs him like . |
| 20 | This was his St Martin 's summer , an autumnal madness , nothing that the first cold of winter could n't wither . |
| 21 | Is there nothing that the average man wandering down a country lane can do about the effects of autumn ? |
| 22 | An engagement party can be arranged to introduce families and friends to the other families , and inform everyone that the young couple are now attached . |
| 23 | They let off frequent bursts of fire into the air to remind everyone that the only law in Somalia is administered down the barrel of a gun . |
| 24 | However it was considered by everyone that the real reason was to let Alec Douglas-Home have a triumphal return . |
| 25 | It was soon apparent to everyone that the two dogs were fretting . |
| 26 | It had quickly become clear to everyone that the new concept ( the ‘ Teller-Ulam configuration ’ ) was likely to prove successful . |
| 27 | And Bridhe and Seumas Ban would make it plain to everyone that the new mistress had their approval . |
| 28 | He brushed up my biochemistry , informing me that the long chain fences of fat molecules are antipodean in scale set beside the dry stone walls of mere proteins , and that he himself had it as an ambition to contrive that his entire body should be sheathed in one enormous fat molecule . |
| 29 | It seems to me that the graded-test system will simply carry out these functions more efficiently than the system of GCSE , followed by A levels or one of the range of non-school practical certificate tests . |
| 30 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |