Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 2 | Karmal was subsequently replaced as party leader and president by Najibullah , but there was little progress in establishing the broadly-based ‘ government of national reconciliation ’ which was his declared objective . |
| 3 | Go in the microwave that 's all , I ai n't got much money at all , I did n't have that much left , I bought mum 's cigs and that bit of shopping the other day and that was the end of that we will survive . |
| 4 | That bit about throwing the stone up the alley to make him rush off after it , I got that from a detective story . |
| 5 | But the Barclays Franchise Pack can guide you in making that decision by prompting the questions that you should ask of both yourself , the prospective franchiser , and even some of the existing franchisees . |
| 6 | However , it was suggested that he could overcome that hurdle by signing the Blackpool involvement over to his wife . |
| 7 | The smaller Protestant states of northern Europe — Brandenburg-Prussia , Sweden , Denmark — which were all to varying extents anxious to conciliate Russia , had little hesitation in recognising the new title . |
| 8 | As always , he had that look of having the world on a string , everything indisputably under his control . |
| 9 | ‘ The successful scholar is normally the person who has the least difficulty in identifying the route from A to B … yet are these always the best people to put in charge of those with the greatest difficulty ? ’ . |
| 10 | But we can reduce that complexity by answering the question — how do I win my battle ? ’ |
| 11 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 12 | They broke that contract by taking the later ( and much larger ) claim into account . |
| 13 | His design focused on his brilliant performance of the various solos but otherwise filled the stage with authentic steps which played little part in making the action unfold . |
| 14 | NCP were informed in January , of this year , by the Director of Property Services , that responsibility for repairing the car park was NCP 's , not the council 's . ’ |
| 15 | What is important is the unequivocal , but in my respectful opinion wrong , statement of the law made by Viscount Dilhorne , at p. 632a ( to which I referred at the outset of my speech ) , that Parliament by omitting the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ from section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 ‘ has relieved the prosecution of the burden of establishing that the taking was without the owner 's consent . ’ |
| 16 | A rough but convenient measure of sentence complexity is the average number of words per sentence : that is , we have first to determine the complexity of each sentence by counting the words , and then to derive from this an overall measure of complexity . |
| 17 | But the worker who is able to achieve rapport with his or her clients , who is confident in his or her own sexuality and who is sufficiently knowledgeable about sex to be able to help will have little difficulty in broaching the subject . |
| 18 | Sir Patrick Hastings , who was briefed for the defence of Mosley and the others , had little difficulty in demolishing the prosecution case . |
| 19 | Those aware of his unpopularity and unilateralism had little difficulty in comprehending the motives of his assassins . |
| 20 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 21 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 22 | Most critics had little difficulty in associating the faults of the movies with aspects of the American personality . |
| 23 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 24 | Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 25 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
| 26 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 27 | I find a little difficulty in understanding the basis of your argument Mr , given the point you made last week about the need for Yo North Yorkshire as a whole to cater for one hundred percent migration , so as to make adequate provision for those coming from Leeds . |
| 28 | During your undergraduate studies you should have little difficulty in tracing the information that you need , since most will be contained in well-known textbooks . |
| 29 | Human readers have little difficulty in following the focus of this text , due to their ability to make elaborative inferences and recognise the thematic links that bind the sentences together into a cohesive whole . |
| 30 | But I would suggest that part of sustaining the conditions for women working today and ensuring both a livelihood and acknowledgement through publication , or preservation in museums and galleries , is a radical rewriting of the existing stories of art . |