Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am often asked the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist . |
| 2 | I was just wanted the numbers |
| 3 | Penguin Island , I was reliably informed the other day , is the island where erm Batman 's |
| 4 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 5 | ‘ I was never given the details , but Mum did remark that you had n't had an easy time . ’ |
| 6 | I was never given the chance to write Stephen a letter explaining why I gave him up for when he is older or anything . |
| 7 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 8 | Turning now to the issue of occupational differentiation we can see that those occupations which are generally accorded the title of professions base their claims to special status on a number of grounds which together or separately might be used by any other occupational group . |
| 9 | The city 's Central Station incorporates a large viaduct section over Argyll Street , which is locally nicknamed the Highlandman 's Umbrella , because it provided useful shelter for the homeless and unemployed in the city . |
| 10 | Other apparatus which is mathematically structured the set of ‘ logic ’ or ‘ attribute ’ blocks . |
| 11 | Which is why so often the thoughts of publishers return to Europe , by which is generally meant the mature markets of southern Europe , Greece , Spain and Italy . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a bleak chamber in our watering place which is yet called the Assembly Rooms and understood to be available on hire for balls or concerts , and , some few seasons since , an ancient gentleman came down who said that he had danced there in bygone ages with the Honourable Miss Peepy , well known to have been the Beauty of her day and the cruel occasion of innumerable duels . ’ |
| 13 | Further , it is assumed that farmers ' output prices are unaffected by changes in fertilizer input prices , which is reasonable given the use of fixed prices for agricultural products under the auspices of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 14 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 15 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 16 | Somebody 's obviously tipped the edge |
| 17 | Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul . |
| 18 | Two large portes cochères offered ingress to a station which was immediately dubbed the largest in India , perhaps even in all Asia . |
| 19 | That is why it is essential that we should continue to develop the space-based defence , which was once called the strategic defence initiative or SDI and is now referred to as ’ brilliant pebbles ’ . |
| 20 | The estate , which was once labelled the worst in Europe because of it 's rundown condition , is being renovated in a £6 million partnership with the council and private developers . |
| 21 | The end of that war brought about many changes in Europe , one of which was the creation of a new mid-Europe nation which was originally named the ‘ Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes ’ , but which formally changed its name in 1929 , to Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | These accommodated about thirty old people , which was originally considered the optimum size , but over the years purpose-built homes grew larger and up to seventy places became quite common . |
| 23 | The Northern Band was centred in Kurunagala district , which was long considered the hotbed of the crime . |
| 24 | The Keynesian model , by which was usually meant the model , is a fix-price theory which , by definition , is incapable of explaining why variations in the absolute price level occur . |
| 25 | The evidence is being written by Monsieur A. Vignes , from the French firm Framatone , which was recently awarded the initial design contract for the vessel . |
| 26 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 27 | In Division Three , the two bottom teams met , with Post Office B winning 8–2 over Jaywick B , who are thus guaranteed the wooden spoon position . |
| 28 | The problem of diminished sight can be reduced or corrected by using spectacles or an illuminated magnifying glass : and for those who are severely handicapped the use of specially prepared large-print books or of Braille or of tape-recordings can help considerably in retaining a measure of independence . |
| 29 | ( d ) Motivate and encourage the directly employed labour force who are often given the less straightforward , more difficult or dirty tasks which have been rejected by labour-only sub-contractors . |
| 30 | If they do so , and you are nevertheless denied the right to appeal , that could render an otherwise justified dismissal unfair . |