Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | Thankfully the old saw that ‘ you ca n't call yourselves world champions until you 've beaten the Boks ’ has been laid to rest and now , politics allowing , the South African game can get on with the long overdue task of putting its own house — in particular its over-powerful domestic unions — in order . |
2 | Should one consequently resist too vigorously the wicked thought that active citizenship in modern Britain will be a status conferred on those who actually pay their poll tax ? |
3 | From studies of these countries , there appears to be an unwillingness of the elderly to seek assistance from their younger kin , although paradoxically the young report that they are more willing to give help than the elderly are willing to seek it . |
4 | But the dramatic decline to 40 MPs in the 1924 General Election was effectively the electoral sign that the Liberal Party was no longer a realistic party of government . |
5 | Rosen shot down most effectively the old fallacy that somehow or other the 1950s , the era of the Grammar Schools and Beacon Readers , were a golden age for children 's books and childhood literacy . |
6 | The sense of solitude and peace that surrounds these poems , where Coleridge is either alone , or with his sleeping baby or wife , in comfortable instances of reflection , and finally harmony , rests in contradiction with not only the vitality but more importantly the terrifying power that Kubla Khan possesses . |
7 | The unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about so much , or rather the unsatisfactory conclusion that the conditional is about a further statement about so much , follows from the metalinguistic view . |
8 | Your personality sets boundaries on what you can and can not do in rather the same way that your physical build also sets constraints . |
9 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
10 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |
11 | All substances contain various amounts of energy within their chemical structures in rather the same way that the ball in Figure 6.4 possesses a potential energy proportional to its height above some datum . |
12 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
13 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
14 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
15 | He has decided that the reason Iago proffers for his villainy ( especially the absurd idea that both Casio and Othello have slept with his wife ) are genuine , if deranged convictions , rather than the dispassionately improvised rationalisations of a mind that can not even account to itself for its limitless evil . |
16 | Yes I do , there 's still injury doubts over Alan Jedsa , Paul keeps his place in the side , he did n't have a particular good game against Notts County ; one horrendous effort — error there , but he has played well generally and especially the same side that started that match at Notts County , so we can expect to see both full backs pushing up and really hopefully an open game like the one against Port Vale . |
17 | Hence the capacity of music to engender myth , especially the tragic myth that symbolizes Dionysiac wisdom . |
18 | But perhaps the key aspect that will appeal to doctors in considering DRGS is their contribution to medical audit . |
19 | Perhaps the one aristocrat that felt the greatest affinity with his fellow deaf was Lord Carbery , who was born deaf and never spoke in his life . |
20 | Perhaps the one point that should be emphasized is that extreme care should be taken in documentation and interpretation of petrofabrics , as one can be easily misled by what appears to be a straightforward thin section ( Fig. 5.45 ) ! |
21 | I say real progress has been made but today I am asking you to think about the next step a step that I am sure we all feel is at the heart of the matter a transforming step perhaps the critical step that will guarantee ultimate success in fulfilling god 's loving will for his church . |
22 | The figure is perhaps the only reference that Alice Aycock keeps consciously out of her sculpture . |
23 | And for a young girl who has been privileged to see , with the eyes of her soul , the Mother of Our Lord , it is perhaps the only vocation that she should contemplate . |
24 | The quality of the factor labour itself is perhaps the only variable that is both relevant and an individual attribute . |
25 | Perhaps the only thing that makes a day of interviews bearable is the narcissistic pleasure of talking about yourself . |
26 | Perhaps the only thing that Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath shared was the same Rada voice coach . |
27 | Perhaps the only thing that is different about the modern invasions is that western scientists and divers are around to observe them . |
28 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
29 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
30 | Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region . |