Example sentences of "[det] the [noun pl] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've said in in in evidence that er in my evidence that erm that the sites may have a a role to play . |
| 2 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |
| 3 | Jardine 's concern that this was not necessarily the best procedure , given that the specimens might be subject to decay , proved the case when several of the boxes , which Prince had been forced to break open , were found to contain moths and mildew . |
| 4 | I believe that that the savings can be made within the Fire Service to do just that . |
| 5 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 6 | ‘ If we did that the men would turn on us . |
| 7 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 8 | The result was that Teshigawara made Belfast the first priority of his UK tour for the Japan Festival — not an easy thing to do , given that the settings will take two whole days to set up , with a further day for transporting them from Britain . |
| 9 | In the twentieth century a combination of economic change and government regulations reduced the profitability of cattle stealing , and when the crime revived in the 1930s there was little the authorities could do in face of nationalist feeling and the economic pressures of the depression . |
| 10 | Others are not reported because of embarrassment or fear on the part of the victim ( rape , domestic assaults ) , or because he or she thinks that there is little the police can do about it ( vandalism , shoplifting ) , or that the offence is not very serious anyway , or that there is no unwilling victim ( drug abuse , soliciting , under-age sex ) . |
| 11 | The airport fire service was alongside the wreck within a few minutes but there was little the firemen could do . |
| 12 | The words in square brackets should , however , be deleted , or at the least the provisions should be amended to " best endeavours " to place a more stringent obligation on the landlord . |
| 13 | He genuinely believed that this was the least the belligerents could do in return for the " sacrifices " made by Spain during the Civil War . |
| 14 | If the law is really going to be so pedantic over this , then the least the police can do is ensure everybody is aware of the rules well in advance . |
| 15 | After this the irregulars could no longer claim the benefits of an ambiguous position ; either they were adventurous sailors who were willing to settle down and live peaceful lives once the Spaniards stopped harassing them ( and Morgan showed the way by becoming Deputy Governor of Jamaica ) , or else they were straightforward pirates who were ready to plunder the ships of any nation including their own . |
| 16 | ‘ The public want to see the courts pass sentences that are just and to do this the courts must use the powers this Government has given them . |
| 17 | If you do not do this the muscles may become fixed in a shortened state , putting a strain on joints and various internal organs . |
| 18 | In all this the teachers can scarcely be blamed : the LEA offers no advice or help anywhere in its published scheme on how to collect valid and reliable data about a school , how such data might be judged or any standards against which such judgments might be made . |
| 19 | Following this the results will be developed into specific proposals which will be incorporated in a further consultation paper issued by the DTI . |
| 20 | A minimum contribution , equal to a part of the national insurance contributions paid by both employees and their employers , will be invested in a pension plan , and for this the employees will gain tax relief on their national insurance contributions . |
| 21 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 22 | address , I used to play for Caythorpe Cricket Club , half the clubs used to go to Caythorpe in Lincolnshire before they found us . |
| 23 | God , Alec thought , half the slates must have been blown away . |
| 24 | One that failed to capture or otherwise dissipated half the benefits would still bring social returns over 50 times its cost . |
| 25 | half the teachers wo n't know |
| 26 | Another situation where a wife became involved was in the case of sickness , when over half the farms would rely on the wife to keep things going . |
| 27 | Half the positions will be reserved for scholars from Eastern Europe and former member states of the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | The organisation expects that , in the first few years , half the visitors will come from France . |
| 29 | just for fun , you know but I 'm not a believer in using your fists , you ought to be using your brain to teach with but there were no there are no sanctions , if you say you must stay behind after school , you have to send a letter home and half the parents will write back and say my son or daughter is not staying after school and that is that ! |
| 30 | Half the students will spend a week ‘ shadowing ’ Middlesbrough Council officers , while the others work with local businesses . |