Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 32 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 33 | Fact , in this instance , is far stranger and more profoundly disquieting than anything in the annals of fiction . |
| 34 | ‘ So , with all my thoughts channelled of necessity elsewhere , ’ he continued , ‘ is it so surprising if something like the position of a needle on a petrol gauge does occasionally escape my attention ? ’ |
| 35 | John has found much to do which will not require to be again done in N.S.W. I still hope we may not exceed two years in our absence and I think John is as anxious as myself on the subject . |
| 36 | The four frigates , MEKO 3600 H2 Type , are as modern as anything in the German navy . |
| 37 | But if it was as clever and efficient as we in the West say it is , then one might expect it to have achieved much more . |
| 38 | Heading north from Chesterfield on the road to Dronfield , with urban sprawl spreading its way along the valley of the River Drone , you would hardly guess that high on Barrow Hill a mile away stands Hagge Farm , as lost and as completely rural as anything in the country . |
| 39 | As Philip Gibbs , correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph who was present at the battles as an observer , wrote : ‘ The suffering of all the German troops , huddled together in exposed places , must be as hideous as anything in the agony of mankind , slashed to bits by storms of shells and urged forward to counter-attacks which they know will be their death . ’ |
| 40 | School friends who spent their summer holidays at the shieling have assured me that the cows were as alert as they to the seasons and the signs of preparation . |
| 41 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 42 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 43 | When I 've gone to crown court I am still petrified , that is really , really scary cos everyone in the room is hanging on your every word and if you make a mistake you start to sweat , your hands go clammy not very nice . |
| 44 | But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to ‘ skip a generation ’ and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten . |
| 45 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 46 | Was anyone else as terrified as me at the prospect of the Scum getting the team of the year award last night ? |
| 47 | I was as bemused as anyone by the sudden resurgence of optimism in Catesby . |