Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 2 | It 's a very positive way of letting out pent-up aggression and far less dangerous than slashing someone across the face with your stick — and I 've got the scars to prove it . ’ |
| 3 | Cuddling on the couch with your husband in front of other people is frowned upon just as much as kissing him in the street . |
| 4 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 5 | This means not taking on someone who is too highly qualified and would be easily bored or dissatisfied as much as finding someone with the ability to do the job . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry if landing you with the girl 's clothes is an embarrassment . |
| 7 | pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really . |
| 8 | ‘ Take it from me , kid — ambushing 's a lot better than smacking him in the snout . |
| 9 | and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue . |
| 10 | It 's cheaper than buying one across the road . |
| 11 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 12 | The hole may twist and turn and the ferret will do no more than tie itself to the root while simply passing along the burrow . |
| 13 | Chasing prey through the tree-tops is much more hazardous than pursuing them along the ground , as this raccoon-hunting puma is discovering ( below ) . |
| 14 | As in all societies , ritual is particularly important when meeting someone for the first time . |
| 15 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 16 | It 's understandable that they can admire academics , but that 's not quite the same as loving them for the person they are . ’ |
| 17 | One such article , written by the General Secretary , was ordered to be printed and the editor had no option other than to deliver it to the printers . |
| 18 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |