Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 2 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 3 | I was an articulate , busy girl , brave as anything on the platform , but timid about love . |
| 4 | All this is generally freely given , which is fortunate since none of the clearinghouses has a budget with which to buy published material . |
| 5 | Boll would be in the Directors ' dining room , Basil would have gone to see his cronies in A area , Wayne would have gone out with those as young and limited as himself to the Hind 's Head in the village , Carol would be in the canteen wittering with the other Clerical Assistants and her husband . |
| 6 | It 's another indication that Francis means to continue the Hillsborough revolution started by Ron Atkinson — he changed the thinking in the boardroom , and now Wednesday are as ambitious as anyone in the Premier League . |
| 7 | For in each country where the game had taken hold , the essential English principles had been retained , but the game had been redefined , building up traditions and skills as substantial as anything within the English game . |
| 8 | ‘ I longed to be as good as him in the schoolroom , ’ she says . |
| 9 | WITH three Australians , the greatest number since the 70s , and the club 's first American rider , Middlesbrough Bears are set to start a new season confident they can be as good as anyone in the Sunbrite League 's second division . |
| 10 | This quote from Portsmouth manager , Jim Smith , is about Mark Chamberlain ( remember him ? ) but sums ups the breed : ‘ On his day he can be as good as anyone in the country . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's as good as anybody in the village ! |
| 12 | As long as nothing from the Titanic is raised — and the American Congress has decreed the hulk of the doomed liner to be an international memorial which must remain inviolate — the market for historical items genuinely connected with the ship should be safe . |
| 13 | Predictably , a modern dynamic range benefits both the thrilling theatre of that invocation ( culminating in a triple forte cry of ‘ Printemps ’ as powerful as anything in The Rite ) , as well as the still calm of Persephone 's spoken lines rolling off the tongue with all the grace and ease exclusive to a native française , in this case Anne Fournet ( daughter of the conductor , Jean Fournet ) . |
| 14 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 15 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 16 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 17 | They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time — and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events . |
| 18 | This is the remark of an understandably anxious man , but one friend has observed that although he seemed as concerned as anyone about the advent of war he still retained his " detachment of spirit " . |
| 19 | This was made very evident when someone in the Belloso Battalion shouted across to the Atlacatl Battalion , who were on our left flank : " Attack ! |
| 20 | Leopards are great tree climbers , often carrying prey as heavy as themselves into the branches ( above ) . |
| 21 | Here and elsewhere we have been more committed than he in the interests of clarity of exposition . |
| 22 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 23 | Bob said : ‘ Training is vital so everyone in the organisation knows what is expected of them , and understands that quality is the essential ingredient in making their jobs more successful and enjoyable . ’ |
| 24 | The line labelled unc horizontal because none of the three variables of which it consists depends on national income . |
| 25 | The air was full of sounds — the jangle of reins or goat bells , noises — could they travel so far ? — of parties making for , perhaps already on , the lake ready to take advantage of the promised full moon , dog barkings , cow lowings , sheep , horses : the town and its fjords of fields was as restless as he with the hidden cries of the night . |
| 26 | The audience is as weird as anything on the screen . |
| 27 | McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’ |
| 28 | Very few schools get away with teaching the Lord 's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way . |
| 29 | Finite mind within the world also advances dialectically , from undifferentiated consciousness through objective awareness of things other than itself to the act of understanding in which the subject/object dichotomy is overcome . |
| 30 | Although Angel One had been trained in kendo , the ancient art of Japanese swordsmanship , as part of his overall mastery of martial arts , he knew from having witnessed his opponent in action , that the man was more skilled than he with the katana . |