Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the trick of a successful television documentary is to make each comment delivered within it sound spontaneous : they are rarely anything of the sort . |
| 2 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 3 | It 's probably just as well I have n't been near you for the last week . |
| 4 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 5 | Its a pity we ca n't get any body else , er , to be here what with the flu and , in it ? |
| 6 | Do people obvi obviously there are virtually everyone at the flats , was in a is in a poor situation |
| 7 | There 's only one in the bloody phone book ! |
| 8 | There 's only one in the top ten at the moment |
| 9 | You depend only on yourself — no matter who 's with you in training , it 's only you in the ring . |
| 10 | The ruwang , who is with the men outside the house , chants with the ruwahu , who is inside it with the women . |
| 11 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 12 | It is thus something like the universal yellow which pervades a yellow object without requiring any particular arrangement of individual parts . |
| 13 | There 's generally one in the main parents ' bedroom , perhaps there 's one in one in er one of the youngsters ' bedrooms , there could even be one in the kitchen these days . |
| 14 | Yeah , yeah except that that is just nothing in the end . |
| 15 | Erm I mean , nevertheless , obviously it 's just somebody on the scene is a bit |
| 16 | ‘ There 's just something about the place , I do n't know if it 's the daffodils about to bud , the horse-chestnuts about to burst into leaf , the colonnade … ’ |
| 17 | No there 's just them in the office . |
| 18 | You 're then taken down into the operating theatre and the first injection you are given is usually something on the lines of erm er special K , ketomine or the most common one is |
| 19 | She also sees that there is always something in the drinks cupboard to welcome visitors . ’ |
| 20 | Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end . |
| 21 | Arrange things so that there is always someone in the building who is on call for machine problems . |
| 22 | The choice is always yours at the Whitbread Hop Farm . |
| 23 | There is still something of the well fed confidence of the years before World War I about it , and not a little of the self-deluding establishment complacence of the years before World War II . |
| 24 | Oh he said oh I 'd like to give it all a good he wants to clean it there 's always something on the floor , it 's like a erm lino , it 's probably but all bigger squared |
| 25 | because , I mean it it 's like anything at the moment it it |
| 26 | You think of , I mean the obvious great power , the one superpower that 's left now is the United States compare the United States with let's say Fiji enormous difference in terms of the range of interests it has , erm the things in which in there 's hardly anything in the world takes place without some claim of the United States to have an interest in it . |
| 27 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
| 28 | There 's practically nothing between the residence of South Milford and the horizon with the exception of this hundred foot mound that will exist . |
| 29 | Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) . |
| 30 | I have argued that correctionalism is no more inherently flawed than any other starting assumption ( including ‘ appreciation ’ ) that the alleged functions of crime are a myth , and that socialist anti-correctionalism is really nothing of the sort , but an argument about the nature of officially defined crime ( though it rightly draws attention to the fact that correctionalism can not justifiably avoid such an argument ) . |