Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 2 | The answers given are not the only right answers . |
| 3 | The crimes which had been committed were manifestly the work of hardened professionals who had no more to do with the incestuous dramas of this city than Zen himself . |
| 4 | How they are cracked is almost the least interesting part of the walnut story . |
| 5 | What we have not yet considered is where the body clock is and how it is adjusted by external time-cues . |
| 6 | The part of Figure 5.1 to be considered is therefore the area EFGHCD . |
| 7 | The part of Figure 5.1 to be considered is therefore the area EFGHCD . |
| 8 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 9 | You know , very often you hear the people that are actually talking about the things they 've done are normally the ones that have n't quite got there . |
| 10 | The place to be seen is again the street corner ( see Figure 2.8 ) . |
| 11 | Imply by their wording that the factor named is not the only one that needs mentioning . |
| 12 | The freedom which is sought is thus the freedom to break out of this position and to assert her strength . |
| 13 | What my hon. Friend has said is certainly the case at Rover , but it has also been the case throughout industry during the past year , when there was the lowest number of strikes for more than 45 years . |
| 14 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 15 | The number of the presidential decree was 937 , which the superstitious might have noticed was also the number of passengers on board when the St Louis left Europe . |
| 16 | The prior to whom this was written was still the Italian , Henry , who had been appointed by Lanfranc almost thirty years earlier . |
| 17 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 18 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 19 | In the present case , the immediate proceeding in which the order was made was not the cause or matter to which the section refers . |
| 20 | But what makes made me laugh so much was the fact that they cos their clothes they 've got are always the biggest , mind you , it 'd fit anybody , it 's alright |
| 21 | Overall these are very comfortable necks to play , but the only areas which could be tidied are perhaps the most important ones : the nuts and the fret-ends . |
| 22 | Is he aware that the words he has just used are exactly the same as those that were used by his predecessor just before her Government increased VAT ? |
| 23 | In the first place , the ways in which the overriding of the immunity is conveyed are not the same . |
| 24 | The ones shown are only the simplest ; each winds only once around the z-axis when projected on to the x-y plane . |
| 25 | Its expenses of production when any given amount of it is produced are thus the supply prices of the corresponding quantities of its factors of production . |
| 26 | Close to the centre however , lines of sight on the far side are actually brighter because the stellar densities sampled are almost the same , but the lines of sight on the far side traverse a longer path of stars . |
| 27 | Admittedly there is a use of the word ‘ order ’ , as in ‘ the order in which the things are arranged ’ , but an order in the sense of something to be obeyed is not the expression of a belief that things are — or were or will be — in a certain sort of arrangement . |
| 28 | Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge . |
| 29 | A few people came back with ‘ O Jesus ! ’ or ‘ Yes , Jesus ! ’ but nobody was ready for talking in tongues or , indeed , listening to people talking in tongues , which I have often thought is much the more taxing of the two options . |
| 30 | What is offered is not the results of detailed observation and validation , but an attempt to argue out from a comparison of , on the one hand , declared principles and objectives , and on the other hand , personal experience and published accounts , the fuller implications of resource-based learning in practice . |