Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He allows , however , that it 'll take six to nine months after the acquisition is complete to see which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals . |
| 3 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 4 | She was not prepared to give her mother the satisfaction of knowing that Nicky had deceived her . |
| 5 | Only then would he be free to offer his father the respect he owed him . |
| 6 | Pointless trying to swim against it , but sometimes it just was n't that easy to see which way the current went . |
| 7 | But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs . |
| 8 | It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them . |
| 9 | It is not easy to appraise what success the Land Commission achieved . |
| 10 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 11 | And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … . |
| 12 | I say advantage because if you were to close your eyes while playing , it would be impossible to say which guitar the Carlton 's neck reminded you of most . |
| 13 | The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was . |
| 14 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 15 | Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate . |
| 16 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 17 | Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous . |
| 18 | And that gets you admission the firework spectacular at the Great Central Railway and that 's at the Quorn Station this Friday seven thirty . |
| 19 | ‘ But we all saw him hand the knife over . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This spectacular discovery should once and for all prove what shape the original Globe was , ’ Martin Clout , the theatre architecture historian , said . |
| 21 | Good to get your card the other day and to know that you got safely home from , even if concerned by the cost of the visit . |
| 22 | Indeed , the deputy head is able to penetrate whatever act the boy plays because ‘ I know you pretty well by now Nick Wragg do n't I ? ’ |
| 23 | There are too many unknown quantities in the complex equation regarding number of bodies , quantity of fuel , rate of woodland regeneration and time , to be able to calculate what impact the presence of a large cremation cemetery would have had on the landscape . |
| 24 | To be able to synchronise their emergence the cicadas must have an inbuilt timer which can count the passing years even though the animals are buried under the soil . |
| 25 | In short , while accepting that no conclusive view on the effects of the separation of ownership and control is possible , it is important to enquire what contribution the law and structural reform might make to closing the disciplinary gap . |
| 26 | One wonders what contribution the Bill will make . |
| 27 | ‘ The 341 companies from the 184 Conservative constituencies will not have to travel far to voice their anger the Government took no action six months ago to avoid the crisis they were warned would happen . |
| 28 | Difficult to see which way the wind is blowing at the moment it 's quite swirling . |
| 29 | ‘ It was difficult to know which way the cat was going to jump , ’ she told me . |
| 30 | It 's difficult to know which country the cocoa comes from because you do n't know where they buy it . |