Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be the case rather generally that male fieldworkers find it difficult to gain access to a domestic setting particularly if they are visiting women during the day when the man of the house is at work . |
| 2 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 3 | This has not been the case so far this year with several results ’ , one of which is that ’ Government credibility has been severely tarnished , particularly with regard to perceived dedication to improved training . ’ |
| 4 | That at least was the view of many influential Tories worried about who might lead them to victory in the election due later this year . |
| 5 | The adult seems to enjoy the experience just as much as the baby does . |
| 6 | ( Leavis , a forceful opponent of traditional literary education , indicated in Education and the University just how much cultural competence he took for granted in the student . ) |
| 7 | He had told the story so often that such a literal-minded version seemed unnecessary . |
| 8 | In an evident effort to convince the West once again that military might is not what the Soviet Union is all about , the imposing array of missiles , rocket-launchers , self-propelled guns , and armoured vehicles were all ‘ long in the tooth , ’ according to a Western diplomatic source . |
| 9 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 10 | Obviously I think the er the final time comes some time in April otherwise I think there would be , and I use the term again too much inconvenience , massive inconvenience for those fighting the election here er . |
| 11 | He 's a tough competitor but is tending to disappear from the action too often these days . |
| 12 | Now we do it to one side of the equation so there that 's one twenty write it out again nought point eight three nine etcetera is equal to opposite divided by a hundred and twenty . |
| 13 | Her sister Joanne , nine , enjoyed the movie just as much . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't let anyone ever tell you that fat folk do n't feel the cold just as much as you skinny ones . |
| 15 | But when Betty Bonham was asked by the Queen just how MANY children she 'd fostered … she could n't remember . |
| 16 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 17 | The theory that Charles Paris might be a better actor without alcohol was not put to the test any further that night . |
| 18 | I think there 's also the type very often these people have left a family , a wife and children behind |
| 19 | Whatever oil we 're talking , what I am quite certain about is that the conventional proportions ( three oil to one vinegar ) — favours the vinegar far too much . |
| 20 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 21 | She was learning something new every day , and David was enjoying being the teacher just as much as Jenny loved being the pupil . |
| 22 | In addition , they can perhaps bring home to the community just how much education needs and deserves better funding . |
| 23 | And , whereas Charles had left it at that , Michael Banks 's understudy proceeded to tell the author just how much of a massacre the star was making of his play . |
| 24 | For example , the experimental Peckham Health Centre ( opened in 1926 in the London suburb of Peckham as a community centre dedicated to the study and maintenance of the conditions necessary for health ) found that when it re-opened after the War only about half the original members ' families remained in the area . |
| 25 | Until the end of the war so very few folk had beards , and then only short ones nicely trimmed , but into the room came a most handsome young man with a black fuzz of over eight inches . |
| 26 | These powerful feelings alarm the infant just as much — probably more — than the parents . |
| 27 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 28 | Many modern offerings are hard put to please the eye quite so much . |
| 29 | Option 1 allows the librarian to check all the data stored on the disk i.e. how many items are on loan and allows a scan through items which might be overdue . |
| 30 | I propose that honourable members of this council er would not wish to be associated with such a disgraceful campaign to oust councillor , even if he does have strongly held views and I would like to give councillor as chairman of the environment committee , this opportunity to set the record straight on that point . |