Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 2 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 3 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 4 | It is the unheard-of , something that only the author knows : the vital knowledge that gives the author control over both the characters and the readers of the book . |
| 5 | And that 's something that possibly the public do n't know about . |
| 6 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 7 | Yes we 've compared with everything and specifically the ones you 've mentioned , the S U thirty five and the which is an upgraded S U twenty seven and the M I G twenty nine S , yes we 've specifically compared against those two . |
| 8 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 9 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
| 10 | Right , word full stop word Erm right , press return a few times then choose centering button and table , insert table , and now we 're going to have a table whe where I thought we could have a number and it can either be times or divide by something and then the answer , so we want how many columns ? |
| 11 | The system is a cooperative one and yet the operating units remain independent . |
| 12 | Having decided to surrender to his plans for the evening — lunch had been a light one and already the pangs of hunger were making themselves felt — she would n't do it without a token show of resistance . |
| 13 | The story of those who did n't want this is often not a pleasant one and there the rigidity and the oppression of our traditions are exposed . |
| 14 | Sequential attention to goals allows organizations to resolve conflicts : ‘ Just as a political organization is likely to resolve conflicting pressures to ‘ go left ’ and ‘ go right ’ by first doing one and then the other , the business firm is likely to resolve conflicting pressures to ‘ smooth production ’ and ‘ satisfy consumers ’ by first doing one and then the other' ( Cyert and March , 1963 , p. 118 ) . |
| 15 | Sequential attention to goals allows organizations to resolve conflicts : ‘ Just as a political organization is likely to resolve conflicting pressures to ‘ go left ’ and ‘ go right ’ by first doing one and then the other , the business firm is likely to resolve conflicting pressures to ‘ smooth production ’ and ‘ satisfy consumers ’ by first doing one and then the other' ( Cyert and March , 1963 , p. 118 ) . |
| 16 | Quite frequently a certain plant was reordered under a different name from the correct one and consequently the nurseryman , who honestly believed he was fulfilling the order , was dubbed a ‘ knave or a blockhead ’ , whereas the fault lay with ‘ too much dependence upon careless naming by an unexperienced author ’ . |
| 17 | I thought I heard something but then the oaf of a guide urged his horse back , shouting out questions which would have roused the dead . |
| 18 | We never talk about it : we never talk about anything though so the fact that we do n't talk about that does n't mean much . |