Example sentences of "the [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , during the daytime the internal clock as well as our life-style and environment raise body temperature and the urinary removal of water . |
| 2 | ‘ I met that young man Billy Sullivan in the park the other day , ’ Annie said casually , wanting to glean some information about him . |
| 3 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |
| 4 | One evening in the park the previous summer he had made a frank gesture that was like a question , and one side of her had wanted to say ‘ Yes ’ , but she had said ‘ No , Len , ’ and he had taken his hand away , and kissed her , and quietly accepted her decision . |
| 5 | Voters elected opposition candidates to governorships in the majority the 16 states in state elections held on Nov. 25 [ see p. 37852 ] . |
| 6 | The Bundestag is due to vote on June 20th , the Bundesrat the next day , although the upper house can not stop the lower one from leaving if it wants to . |
| 7 | The German hotelier pointed the club-face the wrong way and swung in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | As with telescopes , the larger the aperture the greater the light-grasp , but there are hazards too . |
| 9 | The commands of these household manuals imply that the printed word was now the authority in the home , and the housewife the new model of servant obeying its dictates . |
| 10 | She entered the convent at the age of eighteen , at the wish of her Parents , and took the veil the following year . |
| 11 | The message Chairman an and er having an idea of , of your second item of urgent business erm it , this perhaps provides the link the important er point that I wanted to emphasise was that the issue of rainfall , the defect on erm the drainage of an area and er water catchment areas and so on , drainage basins is a matter which can only be dealt with at the strategic level and it is therefore of considerable concern to me in view of local government and the questions that is raising about the future of strategic planning could actually make this coordination much more difficult in the future , unless we take steps now to protect the er strategic planning , whatever form local government takes strategic planning itself also needs a degree of |
| 12 | A visit to India being planned for the Prince the following year seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 13 | The direction the English novel was to take in the post-war era was the subject of much discussion in the late 1950s when Christine Brooke-Rose began her career as a novelist . |
| 14 | When Deborah went across to it she saw that there was a faint footpath running in the direction the broken single arm was pointing . |
| 15 | The earlier in the legislative history of the provision the admissible statement is found obviously the greater this task becomes . |
| 16 | On the high flanks of the ridge the thick canopy of the rain forest gave way to slender pines where clear streams plunged from pool to pool over granite boulders . |
| 17 | These were two ex-marines , one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions . |
| 18 | However , in the specialised cells that support and nourish the fetus the immune reaction is greater against a mule fetus than against a horse fetus . |
| 19 | But the cells usually died when they underwent the reduction division ( meiosis ) necessary to produce gametes with half the parental chromosomes , so that the older the fetus the fewer the germ cells found . |
| 20 | If there were a wish to record ‘ the levels ’ on a precise and continuous basis , differences between children will be considerable and the change the greater for youngsters who might , in a less overtly labelled system , be confident late developers . |
| 21 | The smaller the change the longer is the time for which the two solutions remain close , but they never do so indefinitely . |
| 22 | The support for these aims in Britain can be seen in the support the Labour Party is now receiving . |
| 23 | so from Audrey Wise but it was an act of parliament which had the support the Labour Party as well because the purpose of it is is to help wives to help mothers |
| 24 | This was a report commissioned by the British government as an assessment of the prospects in the Biafran War , which in fact firmly predicted the inevitable victory of the Nigerian government — a victory which was , of course , inevitable because of the support the British government was giving to it . |
| 25 | He told The Scotsman the other day , ’ the only thing that can stop us is the Labour party . ’ |
| 26 | They lost , but during the struggle the rank-and-file movement gained control of the UMWA . |
| 27 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 28 | Equally , common sense demands that the operated transsexual should not be able to avoid prosecution and conviction for soliciting or importuning , as the case may be , by suddenly adopting for the duration of the trial the prior and now abandoned sex . |
| 29 | On the second day of the trial the local evening papers could announce that Mascot is cleared of sex charges . |
| 30 | Dear , they were down at the Paradise the other night … looks serious . ’ |