Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think all the many ideas which have been proposed , the , the challenging thoughts , they will make a most enormous contribution to the discussions which we all will be having , and I think , not only ourselves in the voluntary sector , but those elsewhere also . |
| 2 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 3 | So which of the six major types of DIYers are you ? |
| 4 | It 's a comfort , you know ’ — she smiled now — ‘ to think that there 's somebody opposite you for the first meal of the day , even if it 's to have a row with . ’ |
| 5 | God bless you all and I hope to be walking alongside you during the seventy fifth year anniversary efforts . |
| 6 | Again , for reasons stated above , this group was differentiated along gender lines , occurring in none of the female cases and 30 per cent of the male cases . |
| 7 | Joseph Thomson , the first European to explore Masailand , noted that ‘ they indulged in none of the obtrusive , vulgar inquisitiveness or aggressive impertinence which makes the traveller 's life a burden to him among other native tribes ’ . |
| 8 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 9 | There 's only one in the bloody phone book ! |
| 10 | There 's only one in the top ten at the moment |
| 11 | ‘ Renascia and as much as I can remember of Earth legends and perhaps something about the Dark Lodestar as well . ’ |
| 12 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 13 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 14 | Yet only he of the British Medical Journal actually explained what Petrofsky was trying to do — stimulating muscles electrically in their natural walking sequence . |
| 15 | Regardless of the general press of humanity , a funeral procession was attempting to pass down it from the other end . |
| 16 | This arrangement obliges anyone sitting there to turn his head around sharply towards the left if he wants to see A … — especially anyone in the fourth chair , which is the farthest away . |
| 17 | The 1987 Green Paper on Education was notable in that it forecast an increase in the number of students in HE in the 1990s . |
| 18 | I had them all myself from the former British monopoly , the Central Electricity Generating Board , when I was the minister responsible for the day-to-day operations involved in privatising the British electricity industry : ‘ the integrity of the system ’ , the need to ensure the adequacy of contra power or ‘ vars ’ , safety considerations , the impossibility of storing electricity — all excellent points in themselves , but each fully capable of being accommodated in a competitive system such as has been invented , at least in embryo , in Britain . |
| 19 | " So what about the fifty ? " |
| 20 | After all , Twickenham only holds 65,000 people , so what about the other fans throughout the country ? |
| 21 | So what about the retro space-cadet '70s image — hipsters and plastic zap guns , is n't it all just a bit comic-strip ? |
| 22 | So what of the other reasons for rejecting citation analysis as a help in deciding where the money should go ? |
| 23 | So whichever of the three small bidding groups emerges with the franchise will get it relatively cheap . |
| 24 | Not everyone in the pro-life movement is behind him , as ANDREA SMITH discovered . |
| 25 | Not everyone in the Old City was an admirer of Sheikh Osman and there were quite a few Moslems as well as Copts who rejoiced in his discomfiture . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , ’ Gioella said dismissively , ‘ just someone from the far past . |
| 27 | Clearly , there are other possibilities , and it is far from obvious , at this stage of the development of the subject , just which of the many possible formulations is the best . |
| 28 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 29 | Thus none of the proposed candidates has the properties expected of a rapid retrograde messenger . |
| 30 | It is fair to assume that not everything in the emerging resistance ideology pleased de Gaulle . |