Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [indef pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why everyone wants to be The Waterboys and nobody wants to be The Virgin Prunes . |
| 2 | What are the dangers if everyone tries to improve everything ? ’ |
| 3 | Paris , Milan , Amsterdam , Stuttgart , Lyons , Copenhagen , and , above all in 1992 , Barcelona , are the cities that everybody wants to emulate . |
| 4 | The union will fight your case through the courts if someone tries to rip you off , it will check over contracts for you and offer cheap instrument insurance ( see the Musicians ' Union article for details ) . |
| 5 | It gives one Dutch ( why Dutch ? ) courage and the edge is taken off the senses and one says : " Who cares ? " or " I can take it . " |
| 6 | All are aimed at raising the awareness of the responsibilities that everyone shares . |
| 7 | The experimental city is about to become one of the ideas that everybody knows about , thinks about ; and a few actually do it , make it happen … |
| 8 | These are the first principles of Orc generalship … the things that everybody learns pretty quickly . |
| 9 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 10 | Listening alertly is trying to understand what people are saying rather than just hearing the sounds that someone makes . |
| 11 | The questions that one asks in a survey must be derived from the object of the research itself : the schedule is only a tool for obtaining information . |
| 12 | I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) when he recounted all the difficulties that one experiences in that unhappy country , or what is left of it at the moment . |
| 13 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 14 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 15 | In the evolution game , whether the computer version or the real thing , the player ( or observer ) obtains the same feeling of wandering metaphorically through a labyrinth of branching passages , but the number of possible pathways is all but infinite , and the monsters that one encounters are undesigned and unpredictable . |
| 16 | We begin by drawing up a huge ‘ A ’ list of all the stars that everybody recognizes , and that would always include the Royal family and such people as Paul Newman , Robert Redford , Jackie Onassis , and so on . |
| 17 | Rock'n'roll had a softer side , too — and here are the ballads that everyone remembers sung by some of the sweetest voices in pop . |
| 18 | that we do and the courses that everybody goes on , I mean you 'd you you 'd just be spending all your time sort of |
| 19 | The orchards that everyone enjoys walking through are supported by consumers who buy English apples and cider . |
| 20 | It is not ( like the rain in the example of my going to London ) just another reason to be added to the others , a reason to stand alongside the others when one reckons which way is better supported by reason . |
| 21 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 22 | For example , one may have a hypothesis about the outcomes and one wishes to test whether the data are consistent with this . |
| 23 | A band of volunteer drivers provides transport to and from home , volunteers and the Mothers provide the refreshments and everyone enjoys a trip out each year . |
| 24 | The newspaper gives the facts that everybody knows . |
| 25 | They are the facts that everyone knows , Mr Holmes , ’ he said . |
| 26 | But one has to state the facts as one sees them . |