Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 2 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 3 | It has given a lift to the people of Donegal what with all the problems of immigration , unemployment and high interest rates . |
| 4 | One prostitute said : ‘ I do n't like what I do , I hate what I do , but there is no beating it for all the money you can get . |
| 5 | So the eager tourist , arriving at the station , could arm himself with all the necessary guidance and advice to make the most of his visit and of the railway routes connected with his destination . |
| 6 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |