Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The population of Manchester rose by an astonishing 45 per cent in the 1820s so that by 1831 it had reached 142,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 3 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 4 | These included , retreating through northern Yugoslavia , the remains of the German Army Group E , which had controlled south-eastern Europe under the command of Gen Alexander Loehr , and which , with its anti-Communist allies , were anxious to surrender to the British rather than to Communist forces . |
| 5 | This award was established by a bequest under the will of Lady Woolley ( K. E. Menke , 1910–12 ) for archaeological work in the Near or Middle East , in the Mediterranean generally or in the Far East . |
| 6 | Where a supervisor delegates authority to his subordinate , he remains responsible for ensuring that the work gets done , albeit by the subordinate rather than by himself personally . |
| 7 | The first review was written mainly for the many within and outside the congregation who had participated and therefore knew the scheme of things . |
| 8 | Resistor , R2 , limits the current so that in the event of a circuit failure , the l.e.d. will not be destroyed by excessive current as would otherwise be the case . |
| 9 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 10 | The idea of basing decisions on generalisations about the elderly rather than on the needs of individual elderly patients has also met with criticism on purely ethical grounds . |
| 11 | LIFESPAN will display the issue identifier , despatch status ( Y or N ) and the Product identifier for a set of up to 20 Issues associated with the named Client , starting from the first alphabetically or from the one indicated by the Start issue id , and a message if more details are available for viewing . |
| 12 | It was also announced that the country 's domestic defence industry was to be developed in the 1990s so that by the year 2000 it would be able to produce its own military aircraft , warships and submarines . |
| 13 | There is no word-class corresponding to RP/ ? / , so that , for example , the two lexical items in the phrase good food are assigned in Belfast to the same rather than to different classes as in RP /g?d fu:d/ . |
| 14 | The ’ Auto-greaser ’ made line greasing easier , but apart from that the drifting style is much the same now as in the early days . |
| 15 | ‘ Les was the same off-stage as on a very funny man , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Is it much the same there as in an opera — panic , temperament , drama ? |
| 17 | An election under para 21 , Sch 9 , FA 1981 to avoid a clawback of stock relief on a deemed cessation was not applicable , since neither the trade carried on nor the stock of that trade were the same before and after the dissolution of the partnership . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the trading stock was not the same before and after the change . |
| 19 | As a result , business was dictated by local tastes and tended to be conducted in the closing stages of the fair rather than at the private view , which used to be marked by dealers trading among themselves . |
| 20 | Some of the marginal faults-notably that along the Sutherland coast discussed earlier were clearly operative during Mesozoic times ( in this case late Jurassic ) and may well have been active seismic lines . |
| 21 | The traditional picture presented above of the efficacy of the occasional desert flood probably really applies to the semi-arid rather than to the truly arid regions . |
| 22 | For example , it is often possible to explain angry and hostile behaviour in terms of an individual 's love and concern for the other rather than as a straightforward expression of hostility or hatred . |
| 23 | The role of the state was to be changed so that it would offer help in the last rather than in the first resort . |
| 24 | But he had expected it to be directed by concern for the dead rather than against him as the perpetrator of their demise . |
| 25 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |