Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 2 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 3 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 4 | All the evidence suggests that no-one has properly quantified the cost of educating end users in all the user-hostile features of a dumb 3270 attached to a mainframe application , let alone any of the other hidden costs of the mainframe . |
| 5 | Consequently , no-one has ever seen the brain of one of those early mammals . |
| 6 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 7 | At another hatch an arm appears holding up bright enamel bowls and someone dashes forward to claim the grey cassava and fishheads . |
| 8 | Or you can SKIM , which involves just reading the first sentence of every paragraph and anything prominent or highlighted ( in this case , it is the general sense and flow of the book you are trying to absorb ) . |
| 9 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 10 | In many ways that does tend to be a common occurrence on new shows when nobody has yet seen the type of programme the Producer and Story Editor have in mind . ’ |
| 11 | Nobody has yet invented the mathematics for describing the total structure and behaviour of such an object as a physicist , or even of one of his cells . |
| 12 | Admittedly , nobody has actually studied the genetics of caddis houses . |
| 13 | ‘ Because nobody has ever seen the Dark Ireland , and nobody has ever visited it , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Nobody has ever taken the trouble to build a cairn on the bare top but the Ordnance surveyors have erected a triangulation column to mark the highest point at 2058 feet . |
| 15 | Nobody has ever put the boot into literature like Richard Allen . |
| 16 | * Palfrey 's full name is Horatio Benedict de Palfrey , but , as he explains earlier , ‘ you may forget the first two ( names ) immediately , and somehow nobody has ever remembered the ‘ de ’ at all . ’ |
| 17 | Much knowledge has been accumulated since the antiquarians first started to take an interest , and archaeology has become an increasingly scientific discipline , using modern techniques such as aerial photography which has vastly increased the number of known sites , and carbon dating which has caused radical rethinking of accepted chronology . |
| 18 | Secondly , section 30(5) must presumably be read subject to the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 which has drastically reduced the ability of the parties to exclude or restrict the seller 's liability ( see paragraphs 10–14 onwards ) . |
| 19 | A recent case , which has authoratively reviewed the implied duty of fidelity as it applies to the use of confidential information once employment has ended , is Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 ; [ 1986 ] 1 All ER 617 ( CA ) . |
| 20 | Critics also argue that this has been compounded by a policy which has unfairly favoured the private sector in preference to the public sector . |
| 21 | If it can , the scope of the remedy in damages is immensely wider than under pure municipal law , the modern legislation in which has generally eschewed the private action for damages as a means of enforcement . |
| 22 | In other words the issue is whether there has been a gradual process of change based on clear continuities with the past or an accumulation of changes in a relatively short space of time which has fundamentally altered the structures of the UK state . |
| 23 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 24 | It is a follow-up to the World Conservation Strategy of 1980 , which has since formed the basis for all or part of 50 national strategies in 50 . |
| 25 | There is a third point of view : that of weary or wilful ignorance , which has since banished the question almost entirely from intellectual discussion among ordinary , concerned people . |
| 26 | On 29 June 1559 , Henri wrote to the pope , that notorious bombast Paul IV , about ‘ the incredible disaster which has since befallen the realm of Scotland to our extreme regret , disgust and displeasure ’ ; the letter stated his ‘ confidence in God who is so signally offended at this wretched plague of ruffians ’ , but God was to be given worldly assistance in the shape of ‘ a large and sufficient force of French soldiers , infantry and cavalry ’ . |
| 27 | Part ( 3 ) was introduced by the County Court ( Amendment No 2 ) Rules 1991 , which has also abolished the restrictions on the venue in hire-purchase and sale of goods instalment contracts in the case of any action commenced after 1 July 1991 . |
| 28 | With the explanatory survey and the refinement of variable analysis as a way of thinking about social research , the interview and the questionnaire have become most important instruments in achieving the dream of a quantitative social science : it is this which has also modified the character and the rationale of interviewing and questionnaire design . |
| 29 | It stands in a charming enclave of similar houses in the heart of increasingly fashionable Deptford which has mercifully escaped the ravages of Sixties property developers and Seventies road schemes . |
| 30 | Shale extraction could make the United States self-sufficient in oil for the foreseeable future , thus eliminating dependence on foreign supplies , which has increasingly worried the Pentagon . |