Example sentences of "[pron] the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the recent statistical work of demographic historians we now have quite detailed information on with whom the old lived in England from early modern times onwards . |
| 2 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 3 | The aim of this project is therefore to undertake a comparison of South Africa 's labour legislation with the ILO standards in order to ascertain the degree to which the former conform with the latter and provide a comprehensive historical resource base . |
| 4 | Intensive diplomatic activity in the first half of September included ( i ) meetings by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Amman on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 , which the former described on Sept. 2 as disappointing ; ( ii ) numerous visits to the region and bilateral consultations , including Baker 's tour of the Gulf and European capitals , and a Gulf visit on Aug. 31-Sept. 5 by UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , which was marked by hostile demonstrations in Jordan over British policy ; and ( iii ) the superpower summit meeting in Helsinki on Sept. 9 . |
| 5 | Commercial insurance companies also grew and some doctors in poor areas ran their own sick clubs , to which the poor contributed on a regular basis to obtain free treatment when they were sick . |
| 6 | This is the situation which the Irish faced in the 1980s and from which they are only just escaping . |
| 7 | This is the situation which the Irish faced in the 1980s and from which they are only just escaping . |
| 8 | In the course of five days , during which the super-rich flooded through the hall , the Europeans learned just what American collectors want . |
| 9 | The real war was waged against nettle and bramble — now there you really could persuade yourself that some malign force was at work , set upon reducing the whole place to a rank and thrusting wilderness , in which the weakest went to the wall . |
| 10 | The movement towards integration ( with its social , moral , philosophical and educational overtones ) was to be found in many countries and was part of an international concern for the place which the handicapped occupied in Western society . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 12 | The choice of this measure is not arbitrary , for the argument now is that typically a bourgeois client brings an issue to a lawyer , which the latter translates into a meta-language in terms of which a binding solution can be found . |
| 13 | This implies of course that the infinitive event 's realization by the subject has to constitute sufficiently significant information about the referent which the latter refers to for the sentence to be worth uttering . |
| 14 | The Commander-in-Chief returned Captain Stirling 's salute with a broad smile on his face , which the latter took to be tacit official approval . |
| 15 | Even more widespread was extra spending by carers on items and services which were needed by the disabled or elderly person , but which were not covered by the financial contribution which the latter made to the household budget ( even when this included both retirement or invalidity pensions and disability benefits ) . |
| 16 | In January 1989 Arafat held talks in Tunis with a UK Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , William Waldegrave , a meeting which the latter described as a major development in British foreign policy . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh well — ’ Kadan took the arrow which the bowyer handed to him , nocked it , drew without apparent effort , and loosed . ’ |
| 18 | Britain withdrew into what it regarded as a ‘ special relationship ’ in defence with the USA , which the French saw as a relationship of strategic dependence . |
| 19 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 20 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |
| 21 | A modernist moment , too : this is the sort of exchange , in which the everyday tampers with the sublime , that we like to think of proprietorially as typical of our own wry and unfoolable age . |
| 22 | The Cathedral arms were placed on the largest candles — not the tapers which the pious burnt in the side chapels but the candles which were placed on the high altar . |
| 23 | Should setpiece equality form the plot , what prospects are there for Scotland 's backs to build on their Ireland display and will we see more than the limited offerings which the Welsh managed against England ? |
| 24 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 25 | The Spanish in South America had of course embarked on this course long before the British ; the changes of 1757–63 mark the point at which the British moved on an appreciable scale into the imperial activity of gaining new subjects in the process of expansion . |
| 26 | We can only conclude that it was chiefly in the enthusiasm with which the British talked about it all . |
| 27 | In a referendum on April 28 , over 90 per cent of voters approved a draft constitution under the terms of which the 1982 ban on political parties would be lifted on May 18 ; the turnout was estimated at 60 per cent . |
| 28 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 29 | Erm , I can tell you what the other to look at the personality things like that |
| 30 | What the former valued as a proper earthiness and sensuality , the latter condemned as mere vulgarity . |