Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art is at least as important as Politics , whether in Peace or war , and it is Pound 's intransigent conviction of this that brings out the philistine in others beside Peter Robinson . |
| 2 | A brief discussion of some programs written to understand language , including some that ferret out the ‘ gist ’ of a short passage and are able to answer questions about it , gives a sense both of the difficulties and of the promise of these types of approach . |
| 3 | I watched her do this and bring about the destruction of one of England 's greatest noblemen but that 's another story . |
| 4 | So maybe the Indians understood this and tipped up the raft because they were trying to kill Father Firmin ( me ! ) so that Father Antonio would survive and baptise them . |
| 5 | You accomplish this and set up the cups again . |
| 6 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds , which are slippery and stringy . |
| 7 | Cut the melon in half and scoop out the seeds . |
| 8 | Cut a Galia melon in half and scoop out the flesh with a melon baller , or cut into cubes . |
| 9 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 10 | That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many . |
| 11 | One of the attendants offered him a cup : he did not drink from this but threw out the contents and ran off with it . |
| 12 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 13 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 14 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 15 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 16 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 17 | It is these that make up the matter we see today and out of which we ourselves are made . |
| 18 | It is these that make up the greater part of the transcribed conversations in Appendix 2 of this book . |
| 19 | PC May did little but keep back the crowds and briefly interview Mrs Holt and George Grimsdale . |
| 20 | While fibre-rich foods are chewed slowly , calorific drinks require no chewing at all and go down the throat in a split second . |
| 21 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 22 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 23 | A high number of singular military displays more than took up the slack , riding a post- Desert Storm popularity wave . |
| 24 | The losses look likely more than to wipe out the projected profits on the ECR90 project . |
| 25 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 26 | Treasury chiefs are furious at the move that more than wipes out the benefits of the scrapping of the car sales tax . |
| 27 | All told , the Warwick researchers said that the compensation effects could increase employment by 420000 — more than cancelling out the destruction of jobs in factories or offices that take on board the new technologies . |
| 28 | Even the types of particles that were eventually emitted by the black hole would in general be different from those that made up the astronaut : the only feature of the astronaut that would survive would be his mass or energy . |
| 29 | Generally speaking , the most important rules in society are those that make up the law , with laws decided upon by powerful and influential groups in society . |
| 30 | In the case of processes , the division between those that make up the longue durée and those that belong to the sphere of conjonctures is bound to be rough ; there is no absolute division between a gradual increase in population lasting for a century and a cycle of growth and decline lasting a mere seventy-five years , a fact reflected in the organisation of La Méditerranée . |