Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But further acquaintance with the latest model forces me to acknowledge that the 1993 Applause is a well-equipped and well-finished machine . |
| 2 | It may surprise you to discover that the continued life expectancy of a forty-year-old man in Britain today has scarcely increased at all on that of a forty-year-old man living in Britain a century ago . |
| 3 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 4 | That leads me to conclude that the only way to erm resolve matters is through consensus and I 'm sure that that 's essentially what we 're about today . |
| 5 | Are we to assume that the actual test will be trialed ? |
| 6 | How are we to ensure that the comparative information they need over time will be available to them , on the same comprehensive basis as before ? |
| 7 | Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded . |
| 8 | But to the Dover Harbour Board management there was an obvious solution : ‘ Tell him to wait until the 23.59 — he wo n't need to bother with any of that business then ’ . |
| 9 | While welcoming my right hon. Friend 's reply , may I ask him to accept that the best training for Royal Navy reservists is with the regular Navy and will he give that priority in the coming operations for the Royal Naval Reserve ? |
| 10 | ‘ Apart from that , how could I allow him to play when the Scottish League have already altered their fixtures so that none of my home-based players would be playing today ? |
| 11 | Equally serious , his trucker 's rudimentary knowledge of first-aid , led him to suspect that the pink frothy blood evident around the badly swollen nose and mouth could mean a punctured lung . |
| 12 | Professor Lawrence Lindsey 's studies ( National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No 2215 , 1987 ) led him to conclude that the optimum revenue-raising rate is somewhere between 9% and 21% . |
| 13 | Tizard 's findings led her to conclude that the adopted children were the most fortunate — as a group they had fewer problems than the restored children . |
| 14 | When many of these are taken by one person it is still useful for him or her to ensure that the separate responsibilities are kept in balance — and essential if the work is to be of use to other teachers . |
| 15 | It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo . |
| 16 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 17 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 18 | Increasingly , however , his policies and personality had been subjected to close scrutiny by both the media and the Republican Party , causing him to complain that the latter was pursuing a smear campaign against him [ see p. 38953 ] . |
| 19 | I waited for her to erupt as the ear-splitting entourage drew level . |
| 20 | It would n't surprise me to learn that the original Venetian audience ate , drank , gossiped and gambled its way through that first performance . |
| 21 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 22 | Members of Unix International have approached it to suggest that the true blue Unix club get a piece of the COSE requirement process , and word is that Unix International is having informal discussions with the COSE crew . |
| 23 | Its self-interest will lead it to pollute until the marginal benefit of polluting ( a cheaper production process for chemicals ) equals its own marginal cost of polluting , which is zero . |
| 24 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 25 | For now , suffice it to say that the present state of the art is such that while some areas are capable of producing meaningful output measures , it is proving difficult to develop appropriate measures in other areas . |
| 26 | Suffice it to say that the cross-sectional survey is not well attuned to handling processes , but this is a much more serious matter if one abandons the assumptions of symmetry and reversibility . |
| 27 | I believe this situation is self-explanatory , so I wo n't bother you with details ; suffice it to say that the best engineers in Germany have convinced me that the weakest point in this chain is your body . |
| 28 | At this stage suffice it to say that the naive , unreconstructed quantity theory of money is normally introduced at this stage ‘ purely for the purposes of exposition ’ . |
| 29 | Suffice it to say that the exact method depends on the machine . |
| 30 | Now take a and say , what is it that allows me to say that the individual X in this s erm cell of the film is the same individual X as in this cell of the film . |