Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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1 | Either in that or more likely the following year Earl Hakon was drowned at sea , and Olaf took the opportunity to return to Norway . |
2 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
3 | It is doubtful whether ever again the one-man universal classification schemes will make any sense ; it is too big a task . |
4 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
5 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
6 | * Organising an essay around a pre-existing sequence ( such as historical order ) is straightforward but often not the most interesting or useful option ( see p. 54 ) . |
7 | Regularly used in connection with such occasions-and very probably the term used to designate them is the word " honouring " : for example , and the honouring of accession and of campaign respectively ; and for the more personal occasions , and the honouring of one 's becoming kazasker and Mufti respectively . |
8 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
9 | They could make their way over that and eventually up the cliff to the eleventh green of the golf-course , to the gate in the garden wall . |
10 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
11 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
12 | Of these three , bad environment must of course be taken seriously , and it was not suggested that environmental factors did not play an important part in health deterioration , but ‘ environment is not the only factor so operative and possibly not the most important one ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 148 ) . |
13 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
14 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
15 | Afterwards I will have to knock on other doors but I am sure that yet again the right door will open at the right time . |
16 | You can not rely on them deputy speaker if the government is doing er in these orders er on auditors to be er the effective and certainly not the only er police force of financial institutions . |
17 | Groin : The most famous target of all and consequently often the best defended . |
18 | ‘ Here and here alone ’ , as E. J. Hobsbawm has put it , ‘ the bourgeois and even more the petit-bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness . ’ |
19 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
20 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
21 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
22 | Sun and salt water are equally drying and a combination of all three can prove harmful to your hair leaving it looking dull and frizzy and very much the worse-for-wear . |
23 | Nice men all but surely not the management for South Africa 's first major tour since 1981 . |
24 | King said : ‘ We got to the byline a lot on Friday which is always encouraging but too often the ball hit the first defender . |
25 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
26 | Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch . |
27 | That 's more than likely why the likes of Solitaire and Minesweeper get booted as often in offices around the country , and why Leisure Suit Larry was so popular with the City types a while back . |
28 | If they are less than about twice the mass of the sun , they will eventually stop contracting and will settle down to a stable state . |
29 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
30 | I was thinking more of ‘ Tight Like This ’ , made in 1928 and probably still the best record ever made . |