Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we believe THE FACE to be a pretentious load of bollocks that 's completely lost the plot , we support absolutely your right to continue printing such old tosh . |
| 2 | I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all . |
| 3 | That ti I was at er canteen at erm and I took my plate , I was there thre two or three days and she says you 're the only one that 's ever brought the plate back . |
| 4 | of of this secrecy that 's apparently surrounded the whole thing . |
| 5 | The only thing that 's really captured the city for me was Dermot Bolger 's novel The Journey Home , which used the city as a backdrop for a universal story . |
| 6 | It is a paired structure which occupies most of the cerebral hemispheres and is also called the neopallium . |
| 7 | The upper surface of the body is formed by a thin sheet that cloaks the internal organs and is appropriately called the mantle . |
| 8 | In the US magazine Science for the People , Rita Arditti commented that while the sperm donor is continually called the ’ natural father ’ , the woman who becomes pregnant is in fact being hired as a surrogate wife and is never called the ’ natural mother ’ , but the ’ surrogate mother ’ . |
| 9 | It can easily become a cause of friction , and is sometimes made the scapegoat for disagreement and discontent in other areas of a congregation 's life . |
| 10 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 11 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |