Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 2 | ‘ Is your view about them today the same as it was then or do you now feel you might have acted differently ? ’ |
| 3 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 4 | Cardiff 's concern , as it will be for everyone else the All Blacks play in their seven matches in Wales , five in Ireland and one in England , is that the tourists match the mood of their public back home . |
| 5 | A strong man himself , Henry bred strong sons for whom even the great Angevin Empire was too small . |
| 6 | These have for long met the needs of groups of people ( from the otherwise homeless poor family to the grant aided student ) for whom neither the public authorities nor the private market has been able to make adequate provision … |
| 7 | And for people for whom only the best will do , the magnificent Eclipse has everything … from hob light to an automatic oven timer . |
| 8 | For example if , unlike the present case , the school could have been filled with boys paying the full fee , the school would have lost the fee income from the places occupied by the children of the taxpayers for whom only the concessionary fee was payable . |
| 9 | I would be nice to think that if people knew the correct diet for them particularly the correct diet for weight loss , they would simply go and follow it , and that would be the end of obesity . |
| 10 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 11 | That is , assuming there will be room for them once the full panoply of testing and assessment is in place . |
| 12 | The individual members of the Madeira Club of Savannah , Georgia ( founded in 1776 ) , own between them probably the finest collection of madeira wines in the world . |
| 13 | Well for me exactly the same as Bob sorry Robert , the Aldershot method plus er the thought processes . |
| 14 | These items could be represented by twin reservoirs for which only the net flow relative to the remainder of the system would be measured . |
| 15 | The Honourable A. P. J. Vigars , who was at Cambridge two years ahead of Howard ; the retiring figure in Trinity of whom all the great men of Howard 's generation were in awe . |
| 16 | The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her and she could think of nothing else the whole winter . |
| 17 | Some of them particularly the tall dressed stones of the Ballinaby and Kildalton districts , may in fact be much later , perhaps of the early Christian or even Viking period ; but failing evidence to the contrary , a Bronze Age dating may be presumed . " |
| 18 | So there would be stray references and allusions in the feature articles to events of great consequence or intrinsic interest of which even the bird-brained wives of the garden suburbs of malai-land were cognisant but not 1 , Adolph Ng , BA ( Hons ) Toronto . |
| 19 | Sheila Hancock was in that film too , as was Nanette Newman , both of whom told me how Ken would while away his time discussing the medical advances of which apparently the medical staff in the picture were not aware . |
| 20 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 21 | The great complexity of class struggles , of which only the merest sketch has been given in this example , is still not the only matter to be considered in assessing the role of social classes in political change . |
| 22 | There is PCB-burning capacity in Sweden , Finland , Germany and France , of which only the last is , like Britain , prepared to import such waste . |
| 23 | These provisions , of which only the barest summary has been given here , were very complex and , together with the inevitable uncertainty as to when compensation would be paid and how much it should be , resulted in a general feeling of uncertainty and discontent which did not augur well for the scheme . |
| 24 | The gallery walls have been covered in fabric in various shades , of which only the orange-red of the Italian rooms is in keeping with Semper , who originally used this colour throughout . |
| 25 | Yeah but there was more of you so the more of you that works they 're not gon na pay you are they ? |
| 26 | Pachatata 's square is larger than the circle , but has a similar arena ; , in the centre of it too the tell-tale black scar of a fire . |
| 27 | They ca n't ever understand that if your desire is to go to the furthest limits of yourself then the actual form your art takes does n't seem important to you . |
| 28 | So she said well you know , at least I buy Aramis for Johnny and for you so the two purchases are not just to get the watch . |
| 29 | In rock , the more you can sound like everyone else the better . |
| 30 | I looked behind me just the same . |