Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They lower the prestige by which alone the white races can hope to govern and to guide . |
| 4 | But in the final analysis it is a question of political history , which only the political historians can resolve . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain . |
| 8 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 9 | Niki loses six seconds to the sort of ill manners to which even the greatest drivers are subject . |
| 10 | This tendency to treat the local population as an adjunct to the scenery is a problem to which even the rural aficionados among the newcomers can fall prey and by which they can unwittingly cause offence . |
| 11 | Jack Lang , Minister of Culture and Education — energetic and imaginative , say his admirers ; populist and trendy , say his detractors — will obviously campaign on his record , which even the said detractors and the opposition regard as impressive . |
| 12 | It supplies much information which even the specialized dictionaries of technical and scientific subjects do not provide . |
| 13 | The frost freezes the water , not the vine , and a protective cocoon is formed , within which even the tenderest shoots remain safe . |
| 14 | The subject is one of great theoretical complexity , in which even the so-called experts find it easy not merely to disagree but to disagree about what questions to ask . |
| 15 | So there would be stray references and allusions in the feature articles to events of great consequence or intrinsic interest of which even the bird-brained wives of the garden suburbs of malai-land were cognisant but not 1 , Adolph Ng , BA ( Hons ) Toronto . |
| 16 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 17 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 18 | And that may well entail during the discussion on D an evaluation around York to decide which maybe the appropriate sectors of of app which is the appropriate host authority . |
| 19 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 20 | So she said well you know , at least I buy Aramis for Johnny and for you so the two purchases are not just to get the watch . |
| 21 | So you so the two years you 've been here you 've not managed to really get to know many people . |
| 22 | ‘ Now look , as my secretary has told you just the six times , I am totally booked for 1990 and I ca n't possibly … oh dear … |
| 23 | Of course I co could n't tell you now the different ways , they do what they like now . |
| 24 | They also show them clearly the massive benefits enjoyed by employers and the costs which they are carrying . |
| 25 | Can we just the two things you 've said . |
| 26 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 27 | It 's not signed to anybody else the other policies are signed in connection with the mortgage ? |
| 28 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 29 | The interesting question arises : were the several widely acknowledged major episodes of mass extinction in the Phanerozoic caused by exceptional events different in kind from what occurred in the much lengthier intervening periods , or are they merely the spectacular end-members of a whole series ? |
| 30 | The boy stands , arms at sides , absolutely frontal without turn , twist or bend ; were one to bisect him vertically the two halves would be mirror-images , except that the left leg is forward , the right back . |