Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 2 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 3 | In construing the supplemental instrument the whole of the previous instrument may be looked at ( Plumrose Ltd v Real and Leasehold Estates Investment Society Ltd [ 1969 ] 3 All ER 1441 ) . |
| 4 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 5 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 6 | always like , quite when they re repeat the same thing the week after . |
| 7 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 8 | You made the classic mistake the only mistake there is here you multiply everything by two |
| 9 | That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world . |
| 10 | In the saleroom was a crush of the fashionable of Amsterdam , faces straight out of the portraits of Ochterveldt and Rembrandt , echoing the 17th century prosperity which made the Dutch bourgeoisie the richest in Europe . |
| 11 | Long hours of sedentary work were linked to the consumption which made the poor tailor the " wretched emblem of death " . |
| 12 | Fifth , it examines whether recent elections have produced a realignment in the party system ; have three successive handsome election victories now made the Conservative party the natural majority party ? |
| 13 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 14 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 15 | Erm so that response to using the southern bypass the A one , certainly some traffic might find that heading north will find that attractive . |
| 16 | Using the spatial description the particle Xi , which at time t occupies the position xj , is given by . |
| 17 | It was hoped that by using the NUWM prestige the Communists would be able to regain their lost influence in the unions . |
| 18 | WIGAN 'S Martin Dermott has given the new season the ‘ Big E ’ — by dislocating his elbow just weeks before kick off . |
| 19 | The Sinfonia continues its policy of including a Scottish work in each of its concerts , having given the first performance the previous evening in Lanark of Nigel Don 's Suite for Cello and Strings . |
| 20 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 21 | On Dec. 22 a panel of the Supreme Court had overturned one challenge by a group of Bhopal victims by upholding legislation passed in 1985 which had given the central government the sole right to negotiate with UCC . |
| 22 | A conciliatory statement by Eisenhower on 20 January 1960 ( which may in itself have given the Soviet leadership the impression that a little meddling in Cuba would not incur serious repercussions ) was vociferously denounced by the PSP , creating an additional source of pressure on the Kremlin to make at least some show of solidarity with Castro 's ‘ small country struggling alone ’ . |
| 23 | Once again a single victory had given the English king the illusion of conquest in Scotland , but , like his grandfather Edward I , he was soon to discover how little support there really was in Scotland for his settlement . |
| 24 | Marks & Spencer has , we are sure , nothing but the best of intentions for Brooks Brothers , which is why it has given the American clothier the benefit of its most successful ideas . |
| 25 | An even bigger question mark hangs over the proposed Channel Tunnel railway between St Pancras station and the coast , given the enormous controversy the project has already raised among dwellers along the various routes proposed . |
| 26 | PC Fishwick said these two incidents highlight the crucial role the public can play in helping the police to detect crime . |
| 27 | Kinane , aged 30 , rode the Irish filly The Caretaker to win Europe 's most valuable prize for two-year-olds , the Cartier Million , in Dublin on Saturday , but almost as soon as he had passed the post to complete his lucrative double on Carroll House , who is trained by Michael Jarvis at Newmarket , the klaxon sounded ominously to indicate a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 28 | The event , run in conjunction with Durham County Council , will be held on Valentines Day , February 14 , and is hoped to signify the common bond the schoolchildren feel towards their foreign counterparts . |
| 29 | It will be decades before most countries outside Western Europe allow themselves the luxury of being nice to animals , but the earlier we lay the technical foundation the earlier that day may come . |
| 30 | In order to combat the growing deficit the IMF had insisted on cuts in government spending and liberalization measures for trade and investment , demands which were rejected by the Congress . |