Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There s not much in the way of creation to be done against a blanket defence … all you can do is try to get behind them by getting it wide … which we did until the final ball . |
| 2 | The Trust says the estate is botanically some of the richest land the National Trust owns with a variety of trees , natural grasses , orchids , marsh flowers , insects and bird life . |
| 3 | It is rather those in the most outlying areas of Connaught and Munster ( where Spenser 's estate was situated ) who have grown to be ‘ as very patchcoks as the wild Irish ’ . |
| 4 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 5 | In most agencies , the task of deciding what strategy should be followed in developing an advertising campaign is basically that of the account executive , working together with the creative group . |
| 6 | The task becomes one of persuading people that earthquakes will not follow , and that this step is merely another in the gradual process of acceptance and tolerance of varied social and sexual behaviour begun by the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 ; that there is nothing harmful or threatening in institutionalizing , and thereby recognizing , a relationship which some fear , many object to , and most still misunderstand . |
| 7 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 8 | It comes down to asking himself why he is so much on the defensive . |
| 9 | There are occasions when something occurs that is so much outside the laws of nature and likelihood that all previous points of mental reference have to be abandoned . |
| 10 | If this sounds a strange gospel coming from a theologian , let me say immediately that there is so much in the Bible about the awfulness , the cruelty and the unfaithfulness of human kind that we may be sometimes justified in wondering why God continues to love us at all . |
| 11 | But the quite opposed notion of innate individuality has also maintained its strength , no doubt because there is so much in the experience of anybody who actually works with children to support it . |
| 12 | Sheep , in contrast , are God 's creatures , and the ideal image of the men who tend them is naturally that of the Good Shepherd . |
| 13 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 14 | I mean , cos I say , I got ta go go round Lesley 's but there again there 's so much on the go again . |
| 15 | and there 's so much of the kind of change in the last few chapters leading up to this which suddenly got Jesus being spat at Saint Mark is telling us that Jesus has now been condemned . |
| 16 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Well the thing if we did it with our as they keep saying there 's some , there 's so much in the pipeline . |
| 18 | And you 'll see from that that er and I accept that er the outer route , the relief is approximately half to the A fifty nine at If you look at the A fifty nine , Knaresborough Road , Harrogate , er there is a relief of five thousand vehicles for the er outer blue route as opposed to nine thousand five hundred er for the inner northern routes . |
| 19 | The " we " code is generally that with the longer association with the community , the community 's " own " language , while the " they " code is the community 's " new " language , a language of wider communication with the rest of the world . |
| 20 | The main details of this description are derived from the account of the lift published by Gordon Thomas , the designer of the lift , in a paper to the International Congress on Inland Navigations in 1902 , and later in a private publication of 1904 describing the ‘ Thomas Lift ’ for an exhibition in the U.S.A. Although they are clear general descriptions , they are almost identical and , where applicable , the wording is exactly that of the original patent applications , of 1896/7 . |
| 21 | sort of six difference is not much on the other side |
| 22 | " On the key question of sharing power , there is not much on the table , " he said , and what there was appeared " very vague " . |
| 23 | ‘ Is not much of the universe psychotic , so we hear ? ’ |
| 24 | There is not much in the way of a half-way house between people who do not use credit at all and those who use it frequently . |
| 25 | After all , there is not much in the way of food available in the early spring for those birds dependent on insects . |
| 26 | Yet more decisively , it is not all of the general property , including that part or whatever that is involved in the soup tureen , which also weighs two pounds , that is flattening the napkin . |
| 27 | It is not all of the bottle of wine , or any individual property of it other than its own property of weighing two pounds , that is an instance of the general property of weighing two pounds . |
| 28 | There is much hypocrisy practised against homosexuals and I hope not to contribute to it , but it is not all on the one side . |
| 29 | THE MOST interesting reaction to the Labour Party 's abandonment of the closed shop is not that of the Left or the unions but of the Conservatives . |
| 30 | As their point of departure , linguists need to adopt a frame of reference which is not that of the linguist but that of the educationalist . |