Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 2 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
| 3 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
| 4 | All this I learn from the official match programme , price sixpence and now something of a collector 's item . |
| 5 | The result is a ludic collapsing of autonomous theoretical systems on the basis of structural similarities or ‘ slips ’ from one to another which point to the common ‘ story ’ underlying them . |
| 6 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 7 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 8 | How much you pay for the eurocheque service depends on the number of cheques you issue , but there is an annual fee of £5 for your eurocheque card . |
| 9 | In moments of crisis like that you reach for the old dependables . |
| 10 | Structures where economic relationships are primary we call class societies , and in these we refer to the different unequal groups as classes . |
| 11 | Many children , it was said , ‘ actually begin their downward course of crime by reason of the burglary and pickpocket scenes they have witnessed ’ : ‘ All who care for the moral well-being and education of the child will set their faces like flint against this new form of excitement . ’ |
| 12 | A calculation can be made to pass such costs ( or benefits ) onto all who enter into the forward contracts by an adjustment to the prevailing spot rate to give a forward rate . |
| 13 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
| 14 | You see , in spite of all you read About the nasty banks , We ‘ re mostly very nice indeed But seldom get the thanks . |
| 15 | The form is all you have in the initial stages , and if you do n't erm fill it out sensibly then you do n't get as far as the interview , when of course your individual personality can start to come through . |
| 16 | In the former we look for the objectionable and unacceptable features in the book and use these as the basis of rejection , and in the latter we look for the meritorious and desirable features in the book and use these as the basis of selection . |
| 17 | All we have in the General Secretary 's report is one page . |
| 18 | ‘ All they want from the wrecked car is the log book , which they can transfer to the stolen car , ’ says Mr Sloan . |
| 19 | Dual-subject degrees exist in both the universities and polytechnics , but their place in each is subtly different ; in the former they are seen largely in relation to the single honours degree , which constitutes a kind of academic gold standard , whereas in the latter they come under the general rubric of ‘ combined studies ’ . |
| 20 | The above provisions are those which apply in the normal case . |
| 21 | Only the public expenditure costs have been counted , not those which fall within the private , domestic domain ( Rimmer , 1983 ; Parker , 1990a ) . |
| 22 | Among the more common methods are those which depend on the colligative properties of dilute solutions . |
| 23 | Drugs : Both medically prescribed drugs and those which come under the general heading of ‘ non-medical substances ’ can cause impairment of mental faculties . |
| 24 | We can also speculate that at least some ‘ non-negotiable ’ transfers are brought off more rapidly than those which go through the lugubrious procedures maintained by various State bodies and foreign trade organisations . |
| 25 | All others are available except those which lie at the extreme top end of the compass ( say above including the shake on G and A ♮ ) . |
| 26 | More angular and less fluid in outline than those which feature in the final version of ‘ La Danse ’ , the figures are painted in predominantly grey-blue tones against an unfinished blue background . |
| 27 | Then those which arise on the ventral arm plate on the abradial portion of the pore nearest the mid-line of the arm i.e. V4–5. ( e ) The number , form and arrangement of the arm spines on the lateral arm plate — generally a specific character . |
| 28 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |
| 29 | Those who get to the top use interpersonal skills rather than force . |
| 30 | What happens to those who step outside the predictable patterns and regularities ? |