Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Since the semi-final everything just revolves round football , ’ says Francie , ‘ And when we were asked to write a couple of songs to mark Derry 's feat in reaching the final , we were only too happy to oblige . ’ |
| 32 | The part-time or ‘ distance ’ student does not have the same environment as the full-time one . |
| 33 | This remarkable book shows that happy conjunction of the personal and the descriptive which marks the best travelogues . |
| 34 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 35 | the ineradicable sown-in-us |
| 36 | The treaty Lomé IV lays down that the two groups of countries should co-operate also in cultural matters , both in the wide , anthropological , sense of the term and the narrow one of the arts . |
| 37 | His arguments for such a conclusion are , first , the narrow one that the appellant 's complaint of 15 July 1989 was about the police officers ' fabricating the interview notes — whereas the inquiry was principally into the possibility of their having , following his complaint , removed them from Warwick Crown Court . |
| 38 | One of the most significant areas in which secularisation operated was the indefinable one of shared responsibility , human and divine , for life and death ; this is studied in chapter two . |
| 39 | He believes there were many contributory factors to his sacking but the prevailing one was that his views often clashed with Gedge 's . |
| 40 | The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing . |
| 41 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 42 | Pupils become involved in the collection and manipulation of data and are motivated validity of the end product so that projects lose the contrived which marred many projects in the past . |
| 43 | If a pregnancy is pre-marital , it trebles the relative risk of a couple ending up in the local authority sector rather than the owner-occupied one ( Murphy , 1983 ) . |
| 44 | If a squint and amblyopia are detected early , the amblyopia may be treated by patching the good eye , so that the lazy one has to work . |
| 45 | If there is a lazy eye , a parch is placed over the good eye to force the lazy one to work . |
| 46 | He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site . |
| 47 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |
| 48 | There 's no doubt that the build quality of these Japanese models is superior to that of the Korean one ; all the various routing work and insertion of related components is far more consistent . |
| 49 | Oh he 's got , he 's got the hanging one at the front has n't he ? |
| 50 | But while some rumours are harmless — like the persistent one about certain restaurants serving up dead dogs — others can be very damaging for businesses , especially in the volatile electronics sector . |
| 51 | ‘ Kaendly eggsplene , ’ said the noseless one . |
| 52 | Her greater sympathy for the Atlantic connection over the European one is not widely shared by colleagues . |
| 53 | A contradiction exists between the pragmatic view that there will be no return , and the legalistic one calling almost yearly for repatriation or compensation of the refugees . |
| 54 | strengthen a desirable action that is incompatible ( i.e. competes ) with the undesirable one . |
| 55 | ‘ Cos you 're the brainy one , ’ said George . |
| 56 | She wondered insanely , ‘ Which dog is it , the real one or the painted one ? ’ |
| 57 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 58 | is tha is that the friendly one ? |
| 59 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 60 | What are you going to put in the floaty one ? |