Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example if , unlike the present case , the school could have been filled with boys paying the full fee , the school would have lost the fee income from the places occupied by the children of the taxpayers for whom only the concessionary fee was payable . |
| 2 | The Honourable A. P. J. Vigars , who was at Cambridge two years ahead of Howard ; the retiring figure in Trinity of whom all the great men of Howard 's generation were in awe . |
| 3 | Miller 's partiality for flowering shrubs is evident throughout his writing and among them perhaps the versatile roses offered him greatest scope : he appreciated the many aspects of this genus and he understood how they might be best displayed . |
| 4 | ‘ I head for the nearest jewellery store , ’ she said lightly , ‘ which gives me all the more incentive to get this door open . ’ |
| 5 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 6 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 7 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
| 8 | ‘ Ancient person , ’ [ began Gooseneck ] , ‘ for whom I All the flattering youth defy , Long be it ere thou grow old , Aching , shaking , crazy , cold ; But still continue as thou art , Ancient person of my heart . |
| 9 | Er , I just the main point . |
| 10 | I just the slightest sort of movement has readjusted it and this would not move at all ! |
| 11 | Am I simply the latest victim in a long line ? ’ |
| 12 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 13 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 14 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 15 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 16 | His absolute conviction at that time , reinforced by an extraordinary personal charm and magnetism gave me just the right insight and guidance that I needed . |
| 17 | The big guy hit me just the one time . |
| 18 | ‘ Candy , there must be three hundred people in the club tonight — would you care to give me just the faintest inkling who you 're talking about ? ’ |
| 19 | They lower the prestige by which alone the white races can hope to govern and to guide . |
| 20 | right , and its only the last couple of weeks that we 've really picked up |
| 21 | But in the final analysis it is a question of political history , which only the political historians can resolve . |
| 22 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 23 | The great complexity of class struggles , of which only the merest sketch has been given in this example , is still not the only matter to be considered in assessing the role of social classes in political change . |
| 24 | Newcastle were always striving to keep the ball by those machine-like movements which only the cleverest exponents of the short-passing game can exhibit . |
| 25 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 26 | These items could be represented by twin reservoirs for which only the net flow relative to the remainder of the system would be measured . |
| 27 | Cut off from links with the political practice of the masses , which only the communist party could provide , their writings would inevitably serve only to confuse and mislead the popular struggle , and to give aid and comfort to counter-revolutionary forces . |
| 28 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 29 | True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain . |
| 30 | These provisions , of which only the barest summary has been given here , were very complex and , together with the inevitable uncertainty as to when compensation would be paid and how much it should be , resulted in a general feeling of uncertainty and discontent which did not augur well for the scheme . |