Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reported on Aug. 21 that Iraq had completed the withdrawal of its troops , which had begun on Aug. 17 and that almost all of the estimated 70,000 to 100,000 prisoners of war ( POWs ) held by Iran and Iraq had been exchanged , with the last due to be released in September . |
| 2 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 3 | And I 'm not saying that 's the reason but clearly that is er factor and and certainly some of the points we were making about distribution of traffic er on the western side of harrogate er clearly that would n't have had the benefits of providing that that connection on the western side , it would have concentrated all connections between Harrogate and Knaresborough and given rise to more concentrated local traffic effects in that area than would be the case er with an outer western er relief road . |
| 4 | Whether the material thus collected can be summarised , and whether all those on the deciding authority must possess all the papers will depend on the nature of the function being performed and the language of the enabling statute . |
| 5 | A refugee from the Colette-Willy ménage of the early nineteen hundreds , from what promised to be a long stint of sterile work as Willy 's secretary and as yet another among the throng of that extraordinary man 's unacknowledged collaborators , the young Marcel Boulestin fled the malicious gossip , the dramas and scandals in which these two now legendary figures were for ever involving each other and their friends . |
| 6 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |