Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 2 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 3 | ‘ It 's either that or take the job the youth employment officer has set up for me . ’ |
| 4 | It was either that or tackle the beast with his bare hands . |
| 5 | It 's either that or taking a day 's leave on the Friday . |
| 6 | ‘ It was that or see the world destroyed . ’ |
| 7 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 8 | Well would you rather do that or have a conservatory ? |
| 9 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 10 | If it is clear that a listed building is being neglected and is in urgent need of repair , and the owner has no plans to remedy this or to sell the property , the next stage is simple . |
| 11 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 12 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 13 | The difficulties which most frequently arise concern the financial problems which arise when individual barristers move from one chambers to another or leave the Bar . |
| 14 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 15 | It is because of things like this that delivering the intervention ( and anything else ) to parents is a matter of problem-solving negotiation . |
| 16 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 17 | It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector . |
| 18 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 19 | If , for instance , the therapist believes that the client 's marital problems are undermining their confidence and feelings of security , and it is this that prevents the client from achieving other tasks , then the therapist 's endeavours should be aimed at this problem first . |
| 20 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |
| 21 | ( This would be in sequence with another simple process for managing the final values of unc Note that no unc can start up until unc has terminated : it is this that makes the transformation so general , but it also makes the resulting parallel program useless as it stands . |
| 22 | Experiencing joy through suffering is a paradox , and yet it was this that marked the life of Jesus . |
| 23 | It was scenes like this that prompted the MP for Hereford to call for a review of flood defences . |
| 24 | ‘ We cast for type not names ’ said director Archie Mayo and it was this that clinched the film 's impact . |
| 25 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 26 | There was far more in this than met the eye . |
| 27 | ‘ There seems to be a lot more to this than meets the eye , ’ said Sergeant Camb indignantly . |
| 28 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ there might be more tae this than meets the eye . ’ |
| 29 | There is more in this than meets the eye ! thought the housekeeper . |
| 30 | There 's more to this than meets the eye . ’ |