Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the stately swan gliding serenely over the water , few suspect that under the surface the legs and feet are going at a rate of knots , with the result that the following items are in the pipeline , if not already attended to : — |
| 2 | So far as the transfer of the property or the whole or part of the husband 's share in it to the wife is concerned , the provisions set out in Chapter 2 apply and for the reasons there mentioned there is unlikely to be a liability for capital gains tax or inheritance tax . |
| 3 | These primer pairs allowed for PCR not only of the AD1 sequence but across its junction with either flanking type III repeat or across the junction of both 5' and 3' flanking repeats . |
| 4 | The statistics summarised in Table 3.8 show that in the first four months of 1985 , the number of people entering unemployment averaged 347,525 and the number leaving averaged 338,750 against a total unemployment figure of just over 3 m . |
| 5 | Latest provisional figures for in-patients and day cases for September 1991 show that in the past six months the number of patients waiting over a year fell by 7 per cent . |
| 6 | There is not much doubt that in the past direct mail has been a blunt instrument and often still is . |
| 7 | These show that by the 1980s a higher proportion of the population is above the age of 65 than at any time in statistically retrievable history . |
| 8 | We all recall that in the heyday of the poll tax the one principle that Ministers and Conservative Members were most reluctant to abandon was that everyone should pay something . |
| 9 | Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms . |
| 10 | It all makes many believe that over the coming months share prices will drop below the levels at which they opened 1991 . |
| 11 | If the right hon. Gentleman had paid more attention to the CBI yesterday , he would have heard the director general say that since the crash of October 1987 , real take-home pay is up by 11 per cent. , manufacturing productivity is up by 20 per cent . |
| 12 | The Anova in Table 6 ; Table 7 and Table 8 show that as the level of processing increases , words are better recognised . |
| 13 | The title deeds of 1840 show that with the Black Boy there was land known as " The Commons , Stackfield , Haggles , Brickmans field , Crouch Corner and Meadows " . |
| 14 | A self-indexing file can be referenced sequentially by normal sequential processing , and directly using a single seek because of the relations between key and storage address . |
| 15 | Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice . |
| 16 | Both live and in the studio , Alex will normally rely on his 1961 Fender Jazzmaster , ‘ which has got a really nice neck on it . |