Example sentences of "[be] [det] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 There were many then and there have been many since who believed the Rosenbergs were victims of an FBI frame-up but the American people were baying for scapegoats , not least for the grave reverses in Korea .
2 So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for .
3 The outcomes resulting from the use of health services are many and they include the following : reduction of pain , improvement of health , reduction of illness and reduction of mortality rates .
4 The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him .
5 The bulk of the drawing rules were such that you got the pin diameter plus you know , their size pads and all this and stuff .
6 Is that before you take the the angle ?
7 what , oh , erm , there 's something I 've just thought of though , when they wear the er camouflage things , is that when they wear the maroon belt round ? , is n't the kaki belt with the dress uniform ?
8 Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’
9 When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down .
10 A small proportion of the absorbed light will sometimes be re-radiated and it is this that we term the fluorescence .
11 Is this where I make the noble suggestion of keeping away at weekends to leave you free to sail as much as you want ? ’ he demanded .
12 The scale of these changes , which can be glimpsed through the pertinence of a populist politics of " race " and nation , is such that it calls the vocabulary and analytic frameworks of class analysis into question .
13 And th th there 's more but I mean the facilities for them is there ?
14 Most other birds of prey will fight if there 's more than one chasing the same prey .
15 Was that after you took the handcuffs on or before ?
16 So erm , was that when you joined the branch first of all ?
17 This state of human ability was reached centuries ago , but the power of the hierarchy was such that it made the application of reason to religious belief heretical and punishable , and has successfully delayed its application even into this late twentieth century .
18 It was greatly feared , in fact , that the structure of employment was such that it supplied the rising generation with little discipline and even less skill , and that it threatened to produce an endless tide of loafers , unemployables and ne'er-do-wells who had been thrown on to the scrap heap in their late teens or early twenties .
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