Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 2 | Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour . |
| 3 | So much has changed in the life of the farm worker , especially the nature of his work ; yet so much , as we shall see , has remained resistant to change . |
| 4 | But it was not so easy to get rid of the cosmological constant . |
| 5 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 6 | Pupils were significantly less likely to have participated in the follow up studies if at baseline they had reported being smokers or having previously smoked or tried cigarettes , if their father or mother was a smoker , or if their father was unemployed or a manual worker . |
| 7 | The rest would have understood the warning , and the plot , whatever its form , would have fizzled out , as so many had done over the years . |
| 8 | And as for Tommy 's death , what proof had he that one stray bullet among so many had come from the pistol of Captain Trentham ? |
| 9 | For decades people have opposed the use of this trap on grounds of its cruelty , and among those who have done so many have called for the development and utilisation of what are called ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping . |
| 10 | Suddenly it seemed all important to get rid of the terrible thing . |
| 11 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |
| 12 | A decree signed on Dec. 23 removed religious affairs from government jurisdiction and promised government help for the repair of some monasteries , of which only four had remained after the purges of monks in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 13 | Although there were three machines in the original range , only two have come to the UK . |
| 14 | He talks fast , plays fast and at only 20 has crammed in the kind of experience which guitarists twice his age would envy … |
| 15 | It might be possible to get rid of some of these problems without getting rid of the pleasure , even if it is not possible to get rid of the addictions . |
| 16 | This is largely due to support provided by the British Library Research and Development Division which during 1978–1980 funded projects in seven UK library schools based on the use of the HP2645A . |
| 17 | ‘ So he 's not likely to have knocked on the door yesterday evening and asked Sir Paul to let him in . ’ |
| 18 | The most recent Scandinavian and American research suggests that however long you live , serious ill-health is most likely to lie compressed into the last three or four years before death . |
| 19 | Work places have always had supervisors to measure output , so it is hard to explain why it was so much more painful to work plugged into the big brain . |
| 20 | A united Germany would be more likely to remain incorporated in the West 's institutions . |
| 21 | Maori mothers were significantly more likely to have smoked in the previous two weeks than non-Maori mothers ( χ 2 =201 , df=3 , p<0.001 ) ( table IV ) . |
| 22 | A longitudinal study by John Fox and Peter Goldblatt of City University , London , showed that men unemployed at the time of the 1971 census were much more likely to have died over the subsequent four years . |
| 23 | The law as a profession is regarded as a difficult one for hearing people , and not many manage to become solicitors ; still fewer get called before the Bar to become barristers . |
| 24 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |
| 25 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
| 26 | If you are like me , and feel hopelessly inadequate having toiled to the top of your favourite peak in what seemed to be ‘ the worst weather I 've seen for years , ’ only to come across a party equipped with jeans , trainers , and Tescos bags , then the Mourne Mountains are for you . |
| 27 | Generally , though , the manufacture was primarily an urban one , any slight activity in the villages of the Vale of the White Horse escaping Leland 's notice ; not only was it most unlikely to have spread to the Downs , but the social structure of the countryside north of Newbury was typical of corn-growing chalklands . |
| 28 | Closing the door of her flat behind her , she thought : something rather important has passed between the two of us . |
| 29 | The Washington statement was issued at 5 p.m. local time and rocked the United States as little had done since the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and of Martin Luther King . |
| 30 | Far more have stayed in the UK and simply sent their money into tax exile . |