Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two important , and possibly conflicting elements to be borne in mind are , who knows most about what the job involves and who is most skilled at the process of selection interviewing . |
| 2 | Not enough to be a dealer , only enough for what the police termed ‘ personal use ’ . |
| 3 | Why was she worrying so much about what the fuddy-duddy Dr Grant might think of her appearance anyway , when what mattered surely were her professional capabilities , and certainly she had no doubts about those . |
| 4 | He cared only about what the letter said . |
| 5 | Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was . |
| 6 | They are fully engaged in watching and waiting , perhaps for what the mystery of the sea might bring them . |
| 7 | While it makes much of the commitment to solving the Cyprus and Kashmir problems , presumably in deference to immigrant communities , it says rather less about what the Tory party plans to do about the greatest immediate challenge it will face , the level and duration of the commitment to the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 8 | So for him the next test — whose result he was awaiting — would be crucial . |
| 9 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
| 10 | So for him the technology holds no fears and he is always looking for ways to make the stock market more accessible to the ordinary man or woman in the street . |
| 11 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 12 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 13 | And so for us the relationships |
| 14 | The Baker Plan of 1986 was a move in the right direction but came only after what the IMF called the painful adjustment phase of 1983–4 was over . |
| 15 | Each prisoner will then see that — regardless of what the other does — he will be better off if he confesses . |
| 16 | But this overlooks two points : first , that the transsexual is living proof that , in actuality , the psyche may operate in defiance of biological truths regardless of what the law says it should do ; second , that the psyche is not necessarily formed by choice , but may instead be determined for the individual by forces operating on him during its development . |
| 17 | meaning ‘ household ’ , regardless of what the Government or the proposers of the new Clause might wish it to mean . |
| 18 | If meaning can be derived by participants in the communication then there must be a significatory system operating and it can be analysed at the level of the first order regardless of what the meaning is . |
| 19 | The key feature is that for each player , ‘ defecting ’ secures the best outcome regardless of what the other does . |
| 20 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 21 | The fact is , I work in the National Health Service , and regardless of what the media or politicians may say , the reforms are costing millions of pounds setting up a system which is not working . |
| 22 | Social species will frequently surround and protect a wounded or younger member of their clan , regardless of who the parents are . |
| 23 | But regardless of who the people are , it is critical that they feel like a team in order to make any new idea work . |
| 24 | The cluster I found particularly er important and so like yourself the Aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it , it 's just a matter of practice erm the Aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously |
| 25 | We told Kelly all along what the doctors were saying . |
| 26 | Instead I had to sit and watch him produce the belt , and although he seemed pleased enough with it the incident left me even more empty of joy than before . |
| 27 | During a visit to Plymouth , Mass. , in April , Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter said the deal fits nicely with what the parent bank is looking for in its growth plan . |
| 28 | This scheme provides for a simple and inexpensive method of Arbitration on documents alone under which the customer 's liability in respect of costs is limited . |
| 29 | Indeed , I agree entirely with what the Leader of the Opposition said a few years ago , that ’ proportional representation is fundamentally counter-democratic in any case . ’ |
| 30 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |