Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful for what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said . |
| 2 | I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said , because it enables me to explain that proposals for a local income tax relating it to ability to pay have been rejected in Committee and on Report , so we are now in the business of trying to improve this unfair tax which is based on property . |
| 3 | By 1910 ) there were 155 pupils on the roll ; although this was only five more than that for which the original buildings had been designed , and there was now also the extra Sykes classroom , the Board of Education indicated that there was serious overcrowding and something would have to be done : the School fell considerably short of modern standards , and unless the Governors could provide suitable accommodation , the grant would not be paid after July 1915 . |
| 4 | David Tindle gained the impression , from conversations with Minton , that for him the central concern was the structuring of human content into form . |
| 5 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 6 | Even more important was the fact that people had devoted their lives to establishing the identity of such creatures ; that for someone the original distinction between Porcellio and Armadillidium had been a matter of life-consuming importance . |
| 7 | If you want to do this for yourself the following method is not quite so accurate , but will give you the general idea . |
| 8 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 9 | Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake . |
| 10 | Er you must you must be clear of what the right answer is . |
| 11 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 12 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 13 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 14 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 15 | He also owned a large number of works of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature , of quite a few of which the unique surviving copy is his own . |
| 16 | Gabriel tried to slot this into what the new death was all about ; she was deeply troubled . |
| 17 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |
| 18 | High above them the constant roof of clouds would merely lighten and darken in a long solar axial period of 116.8 days . |
| 19 | High above us the celestial spheres of satellite communication look down upon us , observing any change in the weather , any reshuffle in the quiver of minutemen missiles in the United States ' desert arsenal , any time Mrs McGinty fails to hang out her Tuesday wash . |
| 20 | And of course he meant something probably rather different from what the popular meaning is . |
| 21 | Within each cluster there are some cells which receive inputs from the incoming nerves , some from which the outgoing nerves run , and others ( interneurons ) which connect inputs and outputs . |
| 22 | Aumann , for example , quoted Mark Twain 's account of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 in which the American writer spoke of ‘ desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds — a silent mournful expanse … |
| 23 | I am interested in what the right hon. Gentleman is saying , but I am not sure that there will be a conflict , in principle , if the regulator regulates both economic matters and complaints . |
| 24 | A great many people outside the House are interested in what the Prime Minister has to say . |
| 25 | I am interested in what the hon. Gentleman says . |
| 26 | Suddenly other EC countries are interested in what the British have to say . |
| 27 | He was interested in who the local people wanted , whether they considered that a chap would fit in with the university or college , whether he 'd be acceptable to his colleagues . |
| 28 | Figure 1e shows iron-bleomycin cleavage of the insert [ ( TAA ) 4 CG(TTA) 4 ] 2 in which the only cleavage products correspond to the central GT steps . |
| 29 | Suggestive landscape descriptions , based on the countryside of Alain-Fournier 's childhood ( near Blois , in Loir-et-Cher ) allowed Minton again to delve into his now well-rehearsed repertoire of landscape devices , though unfortunately his original cover design was replaced by another in which the quintessential motif of a figure disappearing down a deserted lane is reduced to a miserable size and merely sits on the front cover like an enlarged postage stamp . |
| 30 | We attempt to treat the wives and ex-wives of service men living illegally in some of our properties as sympathetically as we can and that is why the 1,600 to whom the hon. Gentleman referred live in service accommodation . |