Example sentences of "[det] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how does that compare with the same period last year ? ’ |
| 2 | Yugoslavia was without a federal budget until June 1991 , because Croatia and Slovenia could not agree on what percentage of the budget to allocate to the military , or on what contributions they should each make to the federal budget . |
| 3 | You ca n't bear it any longer , does that act as the same ? |
| 4 | Years later , long after Tam was " deed " , I did some research at the Black Watch archives in Perth and was assured that no such thing could ever have happened . |
| 5 | It was only when she moved in that she discovered the coincidence , and did some research with the British Museum . |
| 6 | There was a dish before the main meal ( could this refer to the bitter herbs ? ) |
| 7 | Does n't this conflict with the basic aim of emotion , and action , of reaching a general stance in and towards the world with which one can be content , just as inconsistency in belief conflicts with the basic aim of belief , namely truth ? |
| 8 | Was this did this occur for the whole hosiery industry not just |
| 9 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 10 | Of course the younger user is unlikely to continually switch between the three , but continuity of product and of interface is still very important — my six year old expects to find certain controls linked to certain keys — how do you answer the question ‘ why does n't this key to the same as in the other Fun School ones ? ? ? ’ . |
| 11 | What effect does this have on the legal model ? |
| 12 | What relevance does this have for the social scientist ? |
| 13 | It is important not to let this develop into the second stage , which is a deep sore , more painful and more difficult to treat . |
| 14 | Tell me , in the lease as originally drawn up would you be able to let my client know whether there was specific reference to the controversy over the dustbins or did this develop after the Maltese took over ? ’ |
| 15 | As my PC has exactly this configuration , what does this mean to the uninitiated ? |
| 16 | What does this mean for the traditional large factory town ? |
| 17 | How might this lead to the differential treatment of whites and blacks ? |
| 18 | How , our cynic might well ask , would this differ from the present position ? |
| 19 | What would that do for the living conditions of the poor ? |
| 20 | It was the Labour party 's supply-side policies , including its industrial relations policies — all of which we had to reverse — which did such damage in the 1970s . |
| 21 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 22 | How does that square with the repeated claim that the national health service is safe in Tory hands ? |
| 23 | does that sound like the decent thing to do ? |
| 24 | well how would that how would that fit into the present context ? , erm , we 're assuming here that I have n't decided the er European points or some of them in your favour |
| 25 | how would that fit into the present context , erm , we 're assuming here that I have n't decided the er European courts or some of them in your favour |
| 26 | Naturally , the distinction is not as clear-cut as these simple definitions imply : current items do not all disappear on the initial day of consumption ; and neither do all capital items last for generations . |
| 27 | Traditionally bureaucracy has been described as a role culture , but there is no reason to suppose that the different cultures can not all exist within the same organisation particularly if the organisation is as large and diverse as a government department or a local authority . |
| 28 | Did n't they all know about the terrible appearance of the Conablaiche last time , and how it had prowled the country , snatching sleeping children from their beds and tearing out their hearts for its Dark Master . |
| 29 | Franco 's own forces were similarly , if less virulently , shot through with internal rivalries and disagreements ; but if confronted with a choice between the status quo and the risk of " the reds " returning , they would all opt for the former . |
| 30 | With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions . |