Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right or the other shapes we 've been talking about . |
| 2 | * Consumers may consider the available alternatives from the vantage point of the usage contexts with which they have experience , or the specific applications they are considering . |
| 3 | It is used where ( i ) people seek the benefits that products provide , rather than the products themselves ; and ( ii ) where customers consider the available alternatives from the viewpoint of the usage contexts with which they have experience , or the specific applications they are considering . |
| 4 | They may either be discouraged from having to care about the quantity or quality of what they produce , as their income will be guaranteed regardless or , conversely , they may be less concerned about the quality of the inputs they use , or the agricultural practices they employ , because they will be driven to compete on price in the market against imports dumped or produced to lower environmental standards If the EC demands higher environmental and animal husbandry standards than elsewhere , it must not export' its problems . |
| 5 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 6 | He could still not understand what was happening to him , or the far-reaching effects it must have upon his life . |
| 7 | Mr Ryan declined to name the embassies or the foreign countries he had approached or to specify what sums had been raised . |
| 8 | Yet there has been no systematic attempt to examine the current nature of teacher education , the notions of professionalism implied by different approaches , the amount of school-based work they involve , or the particular competencies they seek to engender . |
| 9 | From Penhill Crags , where the only bones I saw were those of a less than gigantic sheep , we walked by the disused quarry to Stony Gate and the old drove road of Morpeth Gate , now a peaceful broad green lane and very pleasant walking . |
| 10 | Full discussion of it is left to Section 5 , where the main points it raises are more relevant . |
| 11 | At any moment the Roman army could arrive at the narrow strait which separated their holy island from the mainland of north Wales , and they had no protection , except the super-natural powers they felt they could command . |
| 12 | This supported the IDA 's assertion that the anti-pollution requirements it imposes before awarding grants were working . |
| 13 | On the contrary , I would argue that the embedded narratives I have identified here can also be found in more elaborated academic discourses . |
| 14 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 15 | Liverpool magistrates heard that the illegal videos he sold to dealers all over Britain included scenes of cannibalism and disembowel ment . |
| 16 | Pretty soon , if you consider that the only gags he feels at home with are the ones that get stuffed in his mouth in the interest of his , er , research . |
| 17 | This is not the point that the only checks we can make on what we are tempted to say are fallible checks . |
| 18 | This could be due in part to the fact that the only guitars I could draw any parallels with , in terms of appearance , were the infamous Jedsons of the late '60s and early '70s , guitars which many of us have nightmares about even now . |
| 19 | An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams . |
| 20 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the man in charge of the murder inquiry , said that the two boys they had arrested were from the Walton area of Liverpool . |
| 21 | ‘ I was very disappointed that the two areas we have concentrated on since I arrived the tackling and the kicking game were woeful at times . ’ |
| 22 | I wanted to concentrate the space to the sculptural potential it aspires to but does not fulfil , which meant that the two elements I decided to use needed to have a weight and mass comparable to that of the architecture . |
| 23 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 24 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 25 | I have decided that the first chemicals I bought were not absolutely pure . |
| 26 | My mother always maintained that the first words I said were " Go yay , " which meant " Go away " and showed an independent spirit . |
| 27 | And he put me off of that the other ones you gave me with the , what was it ? |
| 28 | Our colonizing ancestors could not deny ( although some attempted to ) that they were dealing with representatives , however imperfect , of a single human species — Homo sapiens ; but they could assert that the tenuous affinities they were prepared to recognize lay with their own most remote and primitive forebears . |
| 29 | Not only does this convergence substantiate our theories of specific psychological processes , it also enhances our faith in our methods , suggesting that the working assumptions we have made to justify their use may , in fact , be valid . |
| 30 | But Baldwin weathered these political storms with some adroitness and found that the economic policies he favoured emerged , almost naturally , out of the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 . |