Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you get a situation like that I mean the key question is do people actually want to change in this kind of way , or would they at least like to sort of experiment a little bit in the way they handle a group of children ? |
| 2 | After that I swept the pock-marked linoleum , and then washed it , working from the far corner under the bed right round the angle to the door , backing along on my knees . |
| 3 | ‘ That someone crossed the frozen moat and , using the steps in the wall , climbed up to Sir Ralph 's chamber . |
| 4 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 5 | In view of this I make the following suggestion . |
| 6 | As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning . |
| 7 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 8 | Yes but , you see when I try to buy some I think the frozen fish is , shop in Woodbridge is silly , damn silly place anyway ! |
| 9 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 10 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 11 | It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch . |
| 12 | When depreciation is deducted from gross investment , we have what is called net investment and it is this which measures the true addition to the country 's capital stock during the year . |
| 13 | This continually recurring disharmony Marx attributes to the nature of class relations , and it is this which produces the forward movement of history . |
| 14 | It is this which produces the combined bracing of the right foot , leg and hip which produces the wound-up spring resistance at the top . |
| 15 | It was this which led the following day to Eighth Army 's request for authorization to negotiate with the Soviets for a hand-over , " on advice Macmillan " , and which led to Robertson 's order from AFHQ later that day for negotiations to begin . |
| 16 | Exactly how zoos are expected to dispose of their lar gibbons is not clear , and it is this which concerns the International Primate Protection League ( IPPL ) . |
| 17 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 18 | It is this which makes the next section of Simmel 's work so difficult to accept , in that it appears to work so deeply against the grain of modern consciousness . |
| 19 | It may be this which signals the high-water mark of Oswiu 's intervention in Pictland , analogous to his activities in Mercia in the three years after Penda 's death , and it does not imply an obvious community of interest between Oswiu and the sons of Donuel . |
| 20 | It is this which suggests the secondary level . |
| 21 | Second , for any possible world we can reasonably expect to be able to find another which resembles the actual world to the same degree . |
| 22 | In this you have the dividing line between business and non-business ; the one is master and depends on profits , the other is servant and depends on salary . ‘ |
| 23 | It is men like this who created the MX-5 in 1989 . |
| 24 | It is men like this who created the MX-5 in 1989 . |
| 25 | He says that there may be a few who go the long way around , but not many . |
| 26 | Although other idealistic communities were already being established in America at that period , few who saw the Pantisocratic scheme in its early growth were ever convinced that it could succeed . |
| 27 | There were a privileged few who made the Grand Tour to complete their education and seek out Europe 's art treasures , but travelling for pleasure was not an accepted part of life as it is in Western industrialized countries today . |
| 28 | Pride in the nation 's system of government , once shared by all , has degenerated into complacency about its superiority , believed only by the few who exercise the near despotic powers that its outmoded forms have given them . |
| 29 | This is a topic that some who visit the elderly find extremely boring , just as others find it fascinating . |
| 30 | I may have been out of the arena for a while , but I daresay there are still some who remember the old gladiator . ’ |