Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Biro is a wily beast , which , if given the least opportunity to make good its escape , will do so . |
| 2 | Harrison told me he was now being watched by plain-clothes police , and that the government would exploit the least pretence to discredit him . |
| 3 | The punctuation mark ( , ) of the least separation indicated between parts of a sentence ; also used to separate groups of figures ( 4,7,25 etc ) . |
| 4 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
| 5 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 6 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 7 | It is this group which has greatest acquaintanceship with the facts and techniques of sex and sexuality and the least inhibition surrounding them . |
| 8 | ARDS manager Paul Malone was n't in the least bit perturbed at his side 's inept display at Newry . |
| 9 | And they were n't the least bit frightened . |
| 10 | Normally that particular tone could quell a charging bull at ten paces , but this man , she thought , must have skin as thick as leather because he did n't look in the least bit intimidated . |
| 11 | It was more irritating still to realise he was n't in the least bit put out by the woman 's comments . |
| 12 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 13 | No I was n't , no I was n't in the least bit impressed with it . |
| 14 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 15 | The history of brief , rapid , nervous fluctuations , by definition ultra-sensitive ; the least tremor sets all its antennae quivering . ’ |
| 16 | The non-interventionist Edward Stanley , Foreign Secretary in his father 's Conservative government of 1866–68 , stated a fortnight after taking office that " if North Germany is to become a single great Power , I do not see that any English interest is in the least degree affected " . |
| 17 | Nothing decided in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process ( post , p. 926F ) . |
| 18 | Certainly nothing that we decide in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process . |
| 19 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 20 | Her face betrayed not the least preparedness to concede , to give up her role . |
| 21 | Figure 5.5 shows the standardized residuals for the least squares Focused model . |
| 22 | The least thing upsets her and she frequently strikes out at me . |
| 23 | In general , the most work and the least distraction occurred in the rarest activities . |
| 24 | No the that kid looks evil . |
| 25 | No I think er the that Forest have put a bit of a press on them . |
| 26 | What remains to be said here is that the objection-that science does not involve causal and other nomic connections-is sometimes a part of something more general and by its nature more difficult to deal with : scientific scepticism about philosophy and its categories . |
| 27 | It was leaked to the press nearly a month before its official launch ; a national paper detailed many of the leaflet 's suggestions in the some ideas to get you going section which includes a variety of unusual ideas between its first suggestion — pecks on the cheek , and its last — cuddling up and sleeping . |
| 28 | The half hour drive east of Ierapetra along Crete 's largely unspoilt southern coast was to Analipsis where the hotel nestled above a great rock-fringed bay . |
| 29 | The striking of the half hour alerted me to the incoming tide of darkness . |
| 30 | Pre-tax profits for the half year rose by 123% to £6.296m ( v £2.814m ) . |