Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes start where we the last meeting I guess . |
| 2 | Should not one of the objectives of our privatisation programme be to give British Coal , or whoever the private company may be , the freedom to produce electricity from its coal and to sell that electricity through the national grid ? |
| 3 | We get the husband , or whoever the jealous party was , bounding into the boudoir and catching 'em copulating . |
| 4 | Indeed , many systems of criminal law impose a mandatory sentence for murder ( or whatever the highest form of homicide is called in that system ) . |
| 5 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 6 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 7 | But honestly , Folly , I would n't dream of blackmailing them or whatever the old bat thinks I 'm going to do . |
| 8 | If we take the view that pragmatics is concerned only with grammatically encoded aspects of context ( see definition ( 8 ) above ) , then we might propose a tidy division of labour between pragmatic and sociolinguistic accounts of honorifics : pragmatics would be concerned with the meaning of honorifics ( e.g. with the specification that V encodes that the addressee is socially distant or superior ) , while sociolinguistics would be concerned with the detailed recipes for usage of such items ( e.g. the specification that amongst some segment of the speech community , V is used to aunts , uncles , teachers and so on , or whatever the local facts are ) . |
| 9 | Just spent 24 hours on a bus with the dashboard covered in St Christophers or whatever the local version hereabouts is . |
| 10 | The optimistic , structuring of an art form until it appears to be on tiptoe in defiance and compliance with gravity … or whatever the dominant forcefield may be . |
| 11 | Visual information and not just , you know , kids and or whatever the popular press thinks you are . |
| 12 | Yeah okay I mean this is all what these schemes or what the current school of thought is . |
| 13 | The twelve environment ministers of the European Community have agreed that market forces can and should be used to environmental ends , but they failed to decide on the measures to be used or what the environmental ends should be . |
| 14 | The usual way of finding out what sort of Christmas the trade had , or what the high street thinks of the year just finished , is to do a ring round of booksellers and publishers and then report the opinions thus canvassed . |
| 15 | What the High Court or what the local authority have to consider is how do we protect the welfare of those children ? |
| 16 | He realized , suddenly , he did n't want to know who or what the little boy was . |
| 17 | ‘ Once I dealt with every newspaper and broadcasting medium in the country , ’ he says , ‘ now I walk in fear of the Hartlepool Mail , or what The Northern Echo will make of me . ’ |
| 18 | I FIND a lot of anxiety among people about the dividing lines between the seasons of the year , or what the French call pre-Mistral tension . |
| 19 | They did n't know who I was or what the Third World was . |
| 20 | So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there . |
| 21 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 22 | and I thought well now she looks familiar as well , I still have n't twigged that its the same Meg Ryan riding her bike and then Meg Ryan comes up |
| 23 | ‘ Shelley understood better than you the passionate quest for truth which overrides any other considerations in the heart of those who would open the secrets of nature , whether scientists or poets . |
| 24 | The European Court , in that and other cases , took the view that one the 1978 deadline had expired , only the Community had competence to enact new measures within the community , and correspondingly this gave rise to an exclusive power in the Community to negotiate international fisheries agreements . |
| 25 | Not like the Labour Party , that we the Labour Party have the power to choose that you do n't have the right to own . |
| 26 | The humble petitioners of Ealing Abbey showeth ’ that we the undersigned wish to note with regret that the Abortion Pill mifegyne ( known as RU486 ) has been granted a product licence . |
| 27 | At the heart of the prohibitions and directives of the ten commandments is a definition of the ways in which man inhibits love both in himself and his society : inhibitions which are released in the gospel commandment of love that we The seven sacraments , traditionally linked to the wounds of Christ because it is his suffering love which gives them efficacy , are baptism , confirmation , penance , the eucharist , extreme unction , marriage and ordination . |
| 28 | Nevertheless it seems that there the external power is abetted by some inner weakness , some potentially wicked impulse towards the wrong side . |
| 29 | I hope that figure is right er , I have to confess that I have not added it up and er the copy that I have , the five and the nine could be mistaken for other figures , but I hope that there the right figures to that must be added first the general damages a calculation which like all by other calculations need to be carefully checked , I would er calculate the interest on general damages to date would be five thousand , two hundred and seven pounds future care totals six hundred and twelve thousand , five hundred and seventeen pounds suitable accommodation , seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds , transport costs thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds , that makes a total of one million , two hundred and six thousand , three hundred and thirty eight pounds that is the amount which I would be minding to award , I understand that the parties in the light of that would wish to have further discussions about the matter |
| 30 | Which means that whoever the seventeenth victim was , he was n't on the Project . ’ |