Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My version of that all-time favourite , turkey , is much easier to carve with all the bones removed . |
| 2 | It gives counsellees ‘ permission ’ to talk about difficult areas , and indicates that we are willing to listen to all the emotion that they may harbour , but which they felt no-one else wished to know about . |
| 3 | And a question you have to ask yourself is why the labour party is prepared to spend on all the aspects of county council responsibility except education . |
| 4 | I ca n't do anything else for Ana and my story will be easy to write with all the ideas I 've got and — ’ |
| 5 | It would be attempting the impossible to write about all the varieties of roads there are in England in the space of a few pages : such a wide-ranging discussion would be full of familiar generalisations and would make very dull reading . |
| 6 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 7 | ‘ Although it is impossible to respond to all the pleas we receive for charitable aid , it is wonderful when we can help a worthwhile cause . ’ |
| 8 | Sociologists wanted to have their results accepted as scientifically accurate , have worked in the same way , but not always successfully , when dealing with people , is not always to easy to think of all the things which may affect the result . |
| 9 | Lumb says it 's because they do n't have a branch there , but we think it 's solid Labour to look at all the blue posters . |
| 10 | They are both on low incomes and find it very hard to cope with all the additional expenses of Gail 's illness . |
| 11 | The predominant feature in figure 1 is non-data-ink , as grid lines and hatching ; the effect is visually excessive , and the data are hard to find among all the noise . |
| 12 | Most of her flowers therefore tend to be in blue , which she would really prefer to combine merely with white to set against all the greens of the garden — but soft shades of mauve and pink also creep in . |
| 13 | To our surprise it was only possible to predict in half the patients the point at which they would block their coronary artery . |
| 14 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 15 | The idea that women are more conservative than men is manifestly inadequate to account for all the observed facts , at least in the cultures sociolinguists have studied most intensively , and it is rarely advanced nowadays as an explanation of sex differences . |
| 16 | But if each can be honest about themselves , try to understand the other , and be ready to give as well as take , they will be able to capitalize on all the benefits of facing life together as a stable and mature couple , for the second half of their journey . |
| 17 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 18 | In addition , textile effluents are very variable in flow and composition , so that the treatment process has to be able to cope with all the fluctuations that can occur from day to day or month to month . |
| 19 | It is , therefore , most important to search for all the possible angles to a question , and this involves reading the question with meticulous care . |
| 20 | and then gradually try and re do n't , do n't spend too much time trying to reconstruct the past because that , you know , you just get further and further behind with the present stuff so you know kind of try and at least make sure that , you know , maybe if you get a job you wo n't be able to go to all the classes but at least make sure you , you are in contact with somebody who has that you can get notes off every time , you know , that erm oh hello |
| 21 | Personnel Manager , Paul Hartley , hopes to be able to write to all the remaining applicants within the next two weeks , and also to give further details to those who need them . |
| 22 | They were able to work on all the routes allocated to that depôt , including 16/18 . |
| 23 | The bodies supervised by such boards are likely to be dominated by the bureaucrats who run them , rather than nominees who supervise them , particularly since they will be able to hide behind all the defences of professional expertise with organizations which are larger than almost all the departments within individual local governments with which councillors will be familiar . |
| 24 | Erm secondly , I 'm not a statistician , I am unable to comment about all the technicalities of the the various assumptions that go into things but some of the people sitting around this table will know that I 've been in Yorkshire and Humberside for quite some time . |
| 25 | But he warned that recessionary trading conditions meant the company would not be able to pass on all the added costs arising from sterling 's devaluation last September . |
| 26 | It is then important to set against this the qualitative assessments and for management to discuss the relative importance of each type of information before the final decisions are made . |
| 27 | Although neither very efficient nor popular with the other staff , Cabon made herself useful and soon had the run of the office and was able to look at all the files , amongst which she found one relating to the proposed voyage of the Rainbow Warrior into the nuclear test area . |
| 28 | You are able to look at all the Ford 1992 series of cars currently available in America . |
| 29 | But psychoanalysis 's limited address to social relations makes it unable to deal with all the questions western feminists raise about gender and subjectivity . |
| 30 | She had n't been able to sleep at all the night before for thinking of him , and some of her thoughts had been unprintable . |