Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh you 're the least planner I 've ever known . |
| 2 | So the least , if fact I I 'm fairly safe in saying , that the least commission you can earn on an ad , providing it 's in our you know you 're taking it from our price system not discounted it , |
| 3 | And as you ladies and gentlemen now are thinking of retiring as I have done the least thing you want to be bothered about is rules and regulations . |
| 4 | The little evidence I could obtain suggested that the explanation was the usual one in criminal justice short-comings : a rising demand not met with increasing resources . |
| 5 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 6 | On telecommunications , Banegas took the opportunity to criticise the government for the little interest it has shown in putting an end to the import of unauthorised pirate telephones , 3m of which are now in Spain . |
| 7 | And your mother thought to herself , honey , of the short life ahead of her , of all the worth and power within her and the little use it would be , and she felt such a weeping bitterness that she cursed humankind . |
| 8 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |
| 9 | In the half hour we were there , they had brought in two soldiers from the front along the river Gumista , to the north of Sukhumi . |
| 10 | I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright |
| 11 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |
| 12 | It is , though , usual to distinguish between electrostatics and magnetostatics ; in the former case the variables are p , E , and D , whereas in the latter case they are J , H , and B. |
| 13 | People speak to house plants , so in the latter case they could speak to money as well , which would make a change from money talking . |
| 14 | In the latter case we would almost certainly be seeing the galaxy during its formation phase . |
| 15 | In the latter case we apply the figure differently ; the rules of projection are not the same . |
| 16 | We are conscious , in general , of some of our memory , and the results of speech generation , though in the latter case we are in much the same position as any other observer ( cf. |
| 17 | In the latter case it may even be a matter of reading one page in one session , whereas in the former you may be able to read and study a chapter — or even two . |
| 18 | In the former case D18 will be lit and in the latter case it will be extinguished . |
| 19 | There is an instruction which compares two fields for equality or non-equality , and in the latter case it indicates which field is greater . |
| 20 | In the latter case it might be difficult to even prove that the building was lived in at all . |
| 21 | In the latter case it is easily shown that the matching in fact yields an equivalence once induction has been used to deal with lower levels . |
| 22 | In the latter case it is important to remove the dead algae as this will deoxygenate the water during its decomposition and may asphyxiate the fish . |
| 23 | In the latter case it is necessary to make the bridging inference that the picnic supplies included beer in order to relate the context and target sentences . |
| 24 | In the latter case it is deducted from the damages he has to pay O. Where he returns the goods to O , O must pay Z the improvement allowance . |
| 25 | Both evolved a stable set of industrial relations , but while in the latter case it was achieved within the context of increasing output , the industry in Scotland was characterised by declining output and productivity and eventual collapse of the traditional spinning and weaving branches . |
| 26 | In the latter case it was expected that there would be a relationship between size of the memory set and the average response time which would tend towards linearity . |
| 27 | In the latter case it will be necessary to work closely with the local authority in carrying out a capital project . |
| 28 | In the latter case it can express either a subsequent actualization ( I managed to catch up with her ) or a subsequent potentiality ( I wanted to catch up with her ) . |
| 29 | In the latter case it seems that the court must approve the payment in pursuant to Ord 10 , r 10 , though it is difficult to see to what approval a debt or liquidated sum can be subject . |
| 30 | In the latter case it remains to be determined whether any of the minor polypeptides detected in our assay are related to other CRE-binding activities ( ECRE-1 , ECRE-3 and ECRE-4 ) that have previously been shown to be down regulated during differentiation of F9 cells ( 48 ) . |