Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting seeing publishing from the top . ’ |
| 2 | But Hilary Witt , head of Cambridgeshire 's catering service , admits : ‘ The trouble is , going into a school hall for dinner is less exciting than going into the Wimpy bar . |
| 3 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 4 | Sabrina 5 was last used in the early 1970s and lay derelict until restored by the Museum in 1987 . |
| 5 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 6 | So I 'm telling you Mr that I 'm not unemployed because according to the Government figures I am not . |
| 7 | At a level where either the commander concerned or the typist could not render ‘ Marxist ’ correctly in Russian , it seems doubtful whether rejoicing for the Paris Commune would be very well informed or sincere . |
| 8 | To speak of the " same substance " would be just as ungrammatical as to speak of the " same Socrates " . |
| 9 | So why are they different when met over the counter in a social security office or a housing department ? |
| 10 | Yet , as is always the case the results sound quite different when directed from the keyboard . |
| 11 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 12 | The significance of the seven-hooded Cobra is most clear when related to the discipline of Kundalini Yoga and the seven levels of consciousness leading to Samadhi or ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 13 | I had chosen the right moment , because I found him , not so much irresolute as musing on the possibility of being wiped out by ‘ a stray bomb ’ . |
| 14 | The second effect is the inferior performance of the CED when compared to the OALD . |
| 15 | It is possible to achieve the largest offsets in Pb isotopic composition at Madeira with U/Pb as high as measured in the lavas in 130Myr , the age of the lithosphere ( Fig. 2c ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Thus , within each homogeneous unit , individual action is considered typical or atypical as judged in the light of the social roles determined by the group ’ ( Wagner 1979c:59 ) . |
| 17 | Measurements of are made using a differential refractometer employing the same wavelength of light as used in the light scattering . |
| 18 | Consequently , it can be determined whether relatively the costs of litigation are too high when compared with the amount of damages awarded . |
| 19 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 20 | In fact , many people are effectively tied to rural areas because of their own or their spouse 's occupation , and residential choice is not free as envisaged in the theoretical residential decision-making models . |
| 21 | Giant water bugs may go rigid when taken from the water and may hold this ‘ frozen ’ posture for as long as fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute . |
| 23 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 24 | You have to be very careful when prowling along the shelves . |
| 25 | This too is worth a try if it 's not obvious what else might be amiss , but you have to be very careful when dusting off the components . |
| 26 | The reasonableness of this is manifest when viewed in the light of the fact that a great many of the most important human decisions do , after all , ultimately have to rely on mathematics for their resolution , if only by virtue of the principle of the majority vote being allowed to prevail in , for example , political matters . |
| 27 | The conclusion seems most sensible when applied to the displays between rivals for a mate , for food or for territory . |
| 28 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 29 | It is this , more than anything else , which makes the map of this sort of country look so empty when compared with the map of anciently enclosed country in say mid Sussex , Essex or Devon . |
| 30 | Long skirts in the middle of the day were acceptable when walking through the halls of Al Ain or Abu Dhabi hotels , but a blue-eyed English woman in black veils and coat ? |