Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He grunches up everything in the forest .
2 Life , as it is lived in classrooms and on the terraces , has almost none of the characteristics of anarchy and impulsiveness that are often attributed to it .
3 ’ A particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying , ‘ Fiona has the same glacial beauty as an iceberg , but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely nothing below the surface . ’
4 Elsewhere , intelligent use of colour is responsible for the blue shading which fills out me of the canthari surrounding the Tyche medallion at Brantingham , Humbs. , or for the red shadow which falls across the shoulder and left cheek of Venus , in the Kingscote mosaic .
5 The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement .
6 It takes on something of the character of an idiom .
7 It 's simpler to obtain large amounts of it and one hopes that if one finds out something of the mechanism through this enzyme one would be able to apply it to other enzymes dependent upon the same coenzyme .
8 But Bergin surprises even himself with the intensity of evil charm he exudes on screen .
9 And he tells how none of the assembled guards and officials could look his father in the eye as he protested his innocence .
10 Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament .
11 That 's what all boils down to does n't it at the end of the day and you have n't succeeded as far as I can see in convincing people , those three thousand signatories , that erm it 's not going to affect their lives and the quality of their lives and their their environment adversely .
12 It does absolutely nothing for the child with potential . ’
13 It does absolutely nothing for the child with potential .
14 That shift from the irreplaceability and loss imposed by the cut to the resumption always allowed by interruption suggests again something of the difference of television , and the inappropriateness of a theory of subjectivity which takes castration as a defining moment .
15 Erm no in in terms of selling advertising we make sure that the prospective advertiser knows absolutely everything on the phone .
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