Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we feed these numbers into a computer that is programmed to alter them according to some rule or another then the output is four new number pairs ( |
| 2 | And they 're low to the ground , so the ground effect and that so the air can go over there , breaks up here and gets thrown off erm it 's just the air . |
| 3 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 4 | Ferranti is looking increasingly isolated in the UK defence electronics scene and it is difficult to see the institutions tolerating such an exercise or forgiving lightly the management for the International Signal and Control takeover . |
| 5 | 2 If a future Parliament is " hung " with the centre parties holding the balance of power between Conservative and Labour then the Liberals and Social Democrats have made it clear that the price of their giving support to any minority government would be a binding agreement to introduce proportional representation . |
| 6 | argues that the state is an instrument to maintain the capitalist mode of production , and the other , a structuralist perspective , contends that the growth of state intervention may be generated by social and political pressures as well as the economic requirements of capitalism but that ultimately the scope for manoeuvre for the state is constrained by the requirements of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 7 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 8 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 9 | Yet essentially Whigs agreed that the hereditary succession had been broken by the Glorious Revolution and that henceforth the monarch had a Parliamentary title to the throne . |
| 10 | in taxation but that still the peasant was , even though this might seem like quite a bit , the peasant was still in a better position than he had been previous because rents were at least thirty percent . |
| 11 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 12 | Their first division place , their future was riding on the game and sure enough the Cherry and Whites rose to the challenge . |
| 13 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
| 14 | Directors Jim Gray and David Duff presided over a set of financial manoeuvres that bewildered even the most money minded fans . |
| 15 | I felt along the ledge at the top of the door and sure enough the key was there . |
| 16 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 17 | A lot of excellent furniture-makers that I know have an unreasonable fear of chair-making ; for some reason or other even the strong go limp at the thought of all those angles and curves . |
| 18 | Some bees come to recognise tripped from untripped flowers and frequent only the former , while others learn to chew a hole in the side of the flower so as to rob untripped blossoms without ever venturing inside . |
| 19 | In one way or another however the credit industry now sees the need to adjust its attitudes and behaviour to incorporate more advice work , and to build on its shared interests with advice agencies . |
| 20 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 21 | If the model is slain by enemy missile fire or similar then the catapult may not shoot next turn , but the model may be returned to indicate that another Doom Diver has stepped forward . |