Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you refuse to buy it from Brazil , tropical timber , their exports are something in the region of between 3 to 5 percent of their . |
| 2 | They plan to be back in Europe in October or November , and if their performances are anything like the last London one , you 'll kick yourself for missing them . |
| 3 | Two more golden eagle sightings were ours on the way . |
| 4 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 5 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 6 | Reviews , targeted reviews are they on the firing line or not ? |
| 7 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 8 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 9 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 10 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 11 | And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord . |
| 12 | Anecdotal evidence does tend to support the view that owners exercise control but these instances are anything but the basis for generalizable statements across fields and decades . |
| 13 | In other words , a classical " solar system " atom under electromagnetic forces is nothing like the actual solar system held together by gravitational forces . |
| 14 | People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones . |
| 15 | ‘ Ministers have not only not spoken out against this irresponsibility but now can not speak persuasively against these boardroom excesses because so many ex-Cabinet Ministers are themselves among the beneficiaries of these excesses , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Seventeen fathers were themselves in the printing trade — mostly compositors , with a sprinkling of bookbinders and machinemen — again all skilled . |
| 17 | They held up posters rejecting the idea that their fathers were anything like the Gestapo , and calling for ‘ full social security ’ for Stasi officers expected to lose their posts in the process of trimming the service . |
| 18 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |