Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes it was rather it it was quite unintentional but they The winner last year , one of the teachers at the school was the secretary 's sister . |
| 2 | and your point in this context , it , as I say the context in which I 've asked you to address me , I suppose you would say , erm given the matters are arguable or whatever the test is under those issues , er , nevertheless if you allow the case that 's been put up , erm , either by way of defence or by way of set up or by way of counter claim to impede the collection of funds , erm , then er you are not then you are erm , erm taking a measure which could could , jeopardize the of the objectives of this treaty , er whereas I image you will say , or you might say , I do n't know , erm , provided this does n't impede the collection of central funds erm , in the meantime , if er the defendants wish to pursue their counterclaim to trial then er , there 's nothing to prevent them from doing so |
| 3 | Careful and accurate description of the problems is necessary before deciding what help is appropriate and what the patient needs to do to overcome his difficulties . |
| 4 | Decide which one of you will be the sales assistant and which the customer . |
| 5 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 6 | mhm Well , David Brian , now you 're a doctor and a reverend and your the curate at Christ Church in Abingdon , but you spent some time over there in Saints Mary and John Church . |
| 7 | As regards others who are terminally ill and whom the law regards as incompetent — for example , the unconscious , the mentally ill , the mentally handicapped , or the seriously confused — it is not clear that anyone has authority in law to consent to or refuse treatment on their behalf . |
| 8 | ( b ) To recapture a person who is unlawfully at large and whom the officer is hotly pursuing ( s.17(1) ( d ) ) . |
| 9 | And he said oh yeah , so , I said to Bev well , they had the feeling it was haphazard or whatever the word be , anyway |
| 10 | Then the value of the whole W ( the value it has , as Moore puts it , on the whole ) consists of the value of W as a whole plus the value of X plus the value of Y. According as to whether the value of W as a whole is positive , negative or nil the value of W , on the whole , may be greater , less , or the same as the value of the sum of its parts . |
| 11 | What is reasonable and what the law should forbid are not necessarily the same . |
| 12 | The yellowing pages of the Penguin edition will be crumbling , the spine will have collapsed , the signatures will be disintegrating but what the hell ? |
| 13 | The project looks at how risk and uncertainty are handled by the decision makers concerned and what the impact may be on the choices made . |
| 14 | It 's er er somebody on business is visiting and they the wife has come and she has to entertain the wife . |
| 15 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 16 | In searching a small file it is also likely that users will enter a good many words which are correct but which the system does not know . |
| 17 | Should not coal-fired power stations , which could be competitive and which the duopoly rejects , be offered for sale so that continuing competition can develop ? |