Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | is in contrast to the behaviour of income distribution , where inequity has been but little reduced during the same periods , and which shows extreme relative rigidity and concentration in comparison with the greater equalizing capacity of the educational system . |
| 2 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 3 | It would appear from this that the bone assemblages derived from the long-eared owl and barn owl ( and other species , see below ) are but little altered by the predator , whereas the kestrel assemblages are more greatly altered . |
| 4 | From mid-May to late June , though , the bats were nor particularly concentrated round the street lights . |
| 5 | The reader is invited to evaluate LP , using the numerical values of ( 5 ) in ( 6 ) , and in particular to note that the eigenvector belonging to the zero root is that originally associated with the eigenvalues 25 in ( 2.7.2.6 ) |
| 6 | Another Oxfordshire site associated with an Iron Age precursor is Wood Eaton , while a possible third site is that now covered by the northern part of the City of Oxford . |
| 7 | Try to see a given situation as it truly is when not enhanced by the torture inflicted by your imagination . |
| 8 | These include the great reed warbler , the wheatear , the whitethroat and the redstart but , as yet , none of these is as well studied as the pied flycatcher . |
| 9 | I only hope the same regulation is as strictly enforced in the rest of Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ My lady Anne is as yet lodged with the lady Alianor within the Tower , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I am aware that , historically , south London has not been as well served by the underground as north London . |
| 12 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 13 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |
| 14 | ‘ I am as well read as the best scholars of the world , and I use the language of the gods and the verses of the poets , ’ said Taliesin , ‘ but I will try to speak more simply in future . ’ |
| 15 | It is not unknown to have ballast on a spar tip to even out the dynamic balance , and , if you are as well prepared as the Peacocks , you 'll have spare spars handy which will have different flexibility to try against the breeze of the day . |
| 16 | There are frequently one or more characters within the fabliau who are as well informed of the situation as the reader may be , and in control of it . |