Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can predict it simply from our reasoning that both the beetle genes and the bacterial genes will take whatever steps lie in their power to engineer the same future events — events favourable to the propagation of beetle eggs . |
| 2 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 3 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 4 | There may be a further indication of this dissatisfaction in Gregory 's account of the interrogation in 585 of two of Gundovald 's envoys , who revealed to Guntram under torture that all the nobility of Childebert 's kingdom had offered Gundovald the crown . |
| 5 | Aside from using it twice in relation to Abdulkerim , he uses it on only three other occasions , at least in his articles concerned with the Muftis under consideration : first , in the general statement which forms the basis for his rejection of the Muftilik of Molla Yegan to the effect that all the ulema are empowered to give fetvas ; second , in connection with Molla Yegan himself ; and third , twice in regard to Molla Shaykh " Abd al-Karim al-Kadiri ( Seyh Abdulkerim ) , who seems to have held an ad hominem muftilik , not connected with the Muftilik of Istanbul , in the time of Suleyman . |
| 6 | If parents are beginning to feel anxious or upset about it then they should abandon the whole attempt until all the worry has died down . |
| 7 | For Dancing Through The Dark , Russell has also had to wear his composer 's hat , scoring five new songs and all the background music . |
| 8 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 9 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Laclotte has managed to assemble all the half-figures by , or attributed to , Giorgione and all the Sebastiano del Piombo 's from his Venetian period , including the ‘ Judgement of Solomon ’ from Kingston Lacey , Sussex . |
| 11 | But inside the bag he found a device to unlock cars , a pair of bolt cutters , a two pound hammer and all the equipment needed to steal car radios . |
| 12 | Er , sorry President , worthy President and all the rest of it , what I 'm saying is that we 're totally opposed to it because what you 're going to have here is , you 're gon na have a situation where branches , branches , you gon na have them fighting between branches and the C E C |
| 13 | A German visitor lost his in the silence of a British Rail first-class compartment and uncoupled the coach as a gesture of solidarity with the plebs in the second class . |
| 14 | It seemed that all her concentration and all the power of every muscle in her body were focused on the point where her fist struck the bull 's back . |
| 15 | There is at least one in each department and all the security men are also fully trained . |
| 16 | It was ringing to tell Haworth and all the world that Charlotte Brontë was dead . |
| 17 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |
| 18 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |
| 19 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |
| 20 | If 1986 was the year of Malham and 1989 the year of Kilnsey , then 1991 will be remembered as the year of Gordale ; the last of the big three to receive the bolt blitz . |
| 21 | The column where people advertise second hand bikes , second hand sewing machines , second hand cars and all the rest of it . |
| 22 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 23 | He was very different from the sort of person who gets a job and then a better job and promotion and a wife ; two children , a boy and a girl , a house , a better house , a car and all the rest of it . |
| 24 | She got the house and contents , the car and all the money in the bank . |
| 25 | and what happen was you had like a , a receiver in your car and all the information was transmitted from , transmitted from like on lamp post |
| 26 | As the bard repeated the welcome to the cheering crowd , Lachlan , Hector and all the rest drank to the health of young Eachuinn Og . |
| 27 | Government give them a grant ( i.e. ‘ new ’ industries ) , cut the rent and all the rest and once the period of , you know , free rent period , free taxes … they move out . |
| 28 | With weight belt , ankle weights and all the rest of the clobber , I struggled to remember the buddy checks . |
| 29 | Many branches and all the County Federations arranged special conferences and functions throughout 1948 leading to a national ‘ WEA Week ’ in late Autumn . |
| 30 | Well the the situation is also that it 's confusing in terms of Apex , Supersavers , Savers , Nonsavers er you ca n't travel on these trains at certain times , you 've got to plan your journey three months ahead if you want to get the maximum savings and all the rest of it . |