Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 2 | ‘ You need to know where they all are if you work for the Royal Mail , ’ Coltman says . |
| 3 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 4 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 5 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 6 | A managerial action could be that he transfers with the outside party services . |
| 7 | The behaviourists ' answer would be that I have in the past been reinforced by coffee when I have gone to C , but not when I have gone to B. This could well be correct . |
| 8 | yeah but I , I 'm and I sawed through the board and you ran away so fast |
| 9 | One way of making it more difficult for the Community Charge Registration Officers to trace people will be if they disappear from the electoral register . |
| 10 | Of course , there will be the process of introducing the council tax as there would be if we listened to the Labour party and introduced its tax . |
| 11 | I I I I 'm until you spoke to the collators department , they told you simply that they knew each other . |
| 12 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 13 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 14 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 15 | Well , you do n't tell two old people that a year and a bit too late you 're out to find what the sticking power of their son will be when it comes to the choicer interrogation techniques of KGB . |
| 16 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 17 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 18 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 19 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
| 20 | What you are about to suggest , of course , is that we wait for the Kilcharran to come along and hoist the damn thing to the surface . ’ |
| 21 | The arguments given in favour is that we vote for the wise and then the wise go on to make a proper final decision about who 's best . |
| 22 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 23 | The only other thing I would say is that we have in the report used the words , freedom to run and since writing the report we have been advised that er that is capa not capable or satisfactorily with legal terms and I would suggest that instead of the words , freedom to run we use the words , access management and permissive rights of way , to cover these . |
| 24 | I think that the first thing that one would have to say is that we work for the Ministry of Defence , and not the Ministry of War and therefore we are about defence , we 're about the maintenance of peace , erm this you know maintaining of justice etc etc . |
| 25 | Their belief is that we stand at the beginning of an age in which the microcomputer will truly become part of human culture . |
| 26 | What they have in common with sociological research , however , is that they depend for the accuracy of their results on choosing the right people to ask , and on having the right questions to ask them . |
| 27 | Their important characteristic is that they cut across the divisions of the formal structure and usually are very powerful if the matters to be communicated are formally confidential or affect the future of particular individuals . |
| 28 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |
| 29 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 30 | One flaw in the techniques of vertical thinking is that they proceed from the known into the unknown . |