Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will extend nation-wide the scheme we have piloted to increase private renting , whereby housing associations manage properties , building trust between tenant and private sector landlord . |
| 2 | The meeting was addressed by David Bellamy and by Gerry Wilson , a retired Canadian geologist who had been head geologist for Holannah , one of the biggest mining companies in the world , and who knew intimately the industry he attacked so fiercely . |
| 3 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
| 4 | Like many others , the problem was mostly the way she held the baby . |
| 5 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 6 | Of young women 66 per cent thought Britain was heading in the wrong direction , and that major changes were needed , and only 28 per cent felt things were all right the way they were . |
| 7 | It goes right the way you can see over there . |
| 8 | Luckily the plumber they called out to reconnect the water was so touched by their plight that he waived his fee . |
| 9 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 10 | The point , according to the restructuring school , is that the relative importance of these factors , and perhaps even more importantly the way they combined together , would depend on the characteristics of each case . |
| 11 | We thereby demonstrate rigorously the results we have obtained more intuitively above , and also illustrate a mathematical technique which is often used in rational expectations models . |
| 12 | George Healey was a remarkable man who devoted his whole adult life to the cause of deaf people , both in Liverpool and nationally first through the N.D.D.S. and thence the B.D.D.A. He was born in Gateacre , Liverpool and lost his hearing at the age of three months as a result of brain fever following a fall from the arms of his nurse , although his deafness was not discovered until he was two years old . |
| 13 | Though it is dead the minute it leaves the scalp , your hair has a lot to put up with . |
| 14 | For me to be autonomous , it is not sufficient that you leave me alone ; rather the way I am treated by you has a bearing on my autonomy , and reciprocally for you . |
| 15 | ‘ You asked for this , ’ he commented , ‘ or rather the man you sent demanding an audience asked for it . ’ |
| 16 | No woman needs this sort of product ; plain water is more than enough and all you are trying to do — or rather the company you are representing — is create a market where none exists . |
| 17 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 18 | " There 's the stuff he 's used to line his chambers with — or rather the stuff he 's thrown out when he 's put fresh bedding in — very clean creatures , badgers , and a very nice resident for your woods . |
| 19 | These are not the immutable basis of our world but rather the constructs we create to produce a stable world of subject and object within which to act . |
| 20 | Rather the events he symbolically depicts are part of a larger design to reveal a historia , an unfolding of a pattern which is to be found both in the self and in a social and political fabric . |
| 21 | They develop a theory of selective behaviour which does not specify what bureaucrats ' preferences are , but rather the means they use to satisfy them . |
| 22 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 23 | Rose represented forcibly the necessity she felt of suffering this continual martyrdom in order to be conformable to her divine spouse . |
| 24 | Travis gave her appearance one long look before disappearing upstream the way she had come . |
| 25 | Some horses need to be slightly less fit to give their best performance , otherwise they become too difficult to control , but Milton goes better the fitter he is . |
| 26 | Better the devil you know … . |
| 27 | ‘ Better the devil you know , ’ says Ego . |
| 28 | Fenton said : ‘ Better the devil you know , and we know Neil Webb . |
| 29 | Better the devil you know . |
| 30 | I do n't see it that way at all but if they 're right er I 'd defend your invitation and my acceptance by quoting the old idiom , better the devil you know . |