Example sentences of "[adv] [det] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 2 | Only this and the hissing of the wind . |
| 3 | Er they say that 's where most of it went on er they would go into the pub and the riveter would tally up the the sheet for the week and say well okay , that 's , you know , the holder-on gets so much and the rivet boy gets so much , and the riveter got so much , and what have you . |
| 4 | The development of a central cook-chill facility to be located at a unit yet to be decided , to service both that and the group 's other restaurants . |
| 5 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 6 | The cost of enteric outbreaks is often underestimated , and both this and the need to extend the scope of monitoring to include patients in community-based smaller homes or nursing homes with contracted beds was discussed by Murdoch ( 1990 ) . |
| 7 | Fateh-ul-Mulk had been poisoned in a court intrigue well before 1857 , but his six-year-old son , the Princess 's father , had survived both this and the Mutiny . |
| 8 | The camera had to get both this and the foreground action ( which in fact was further away than the glass and shot through it ) into focus while creating a convincing effect — too sharp a focus on the glass painting might be counter-productive , revealing its flatness and unchanging lighting . |
| 9 | I particularly like the writer 's use of reductions of the O.S. 1:2500 scale maps in both this and the book produced on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , covering the full length of the tracks in question . |
| 10 | And now it was yesterday and the day before that and the day before that . |
| 11 | When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’ |
| 12 | He owned very little and the packing did not take long . |
| 13 | We have got to be spot on with the depth to which we are digging — too much and the water will be too deep and the reeds will not grow — but I think the new reeds will be good and strong , not the spindly rubbish we are getting as a result of the dry conditions , ’ said Mr Macklin . |
| 14 | The last two E numbers were too much and the rest of the cake went into the bin . ’ |
| 15 | The North consumes too much and the South suffers through debt , food shortages and lack of resources.This is of direct importance to the UN and a campaign to address the problem could be justified from the recommendations of the Willi Brandt report ‘ A Programme for Human Survival ’ . |
| 16 | Philip sharpened one of his pencils that Lee must have broken , sharpened it too much and the lead broke again . |
| 17 | Put in too much and the dog vomits . |
| 18 | One day you might take out a screw too many and the world will fall apart . ’ |