Example sentences of "in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you ever have many , get them ones in the that little house ? |
| 2 | I do n't need it Friday night and leave it in the that . |
| 3 | Precisely either Professor and his party believe in the that certain courses of action are right , that they espouse certain policies or they become hopeless opportunists . |
| 4 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 5 | To be an effective business correspondent one should have a sound knowledge of English , which includes correct spelling , grammar and punctuation , and also be able to construct sentences so that the exact meaning is conveyed in the fewest possible words . |
| 6 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 7 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 8 | On a fast , gusty launch a wooden glider will treat you to a series of creaks and groans , and occasionally bangs , which are alarming until you realize that it is all pretence and that the structure is not in the least danger of breaking up . |
| 9 | no , not in the least , good , fine , |
| 10 | Nothing decided in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process ( post , p. 926F ) . |
| 11 | Certainly nothing that we decide in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process . |
| 12 | The non-interventionist Edward Stanley , Foreign Secretary in his father 's Conservative government of 1866–68 , stated a fortnight after taking office that " if North Germany is to become a single great Power , I do not see that any English interest is in the least degree affected " . |
| 13 | Then I suddenly saw that Syl , too , must look a very great fool , for he was twice my age and I was n't beautiful , nor talented , nor in the least degree interesting . |
| 14 | Normally that particular tone could quell a charging bull at ten paces , but this man , she thought , must have skin as thick as leather because he did n't look in the least bit intimidated . |
| 15 | It was more irritating still to realise he was n't in the least bit put out by the woman 's comments . |
| 16 | I mean , it would n't surprise me in the least if , if you analyzed this dream you discovered it had nothing to do with being at school and nothing to do with taking exams . |
| 17 | Repression would be looking at the cream cake and saying , I 'm not in the least bit interested , how revolting , disgusting , even though you actually unconsciously want it very much . |
| 18 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
| 19 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 20 | It did n't bother him in the least that she might be missing Arnie . |
| 21 | Not in the least ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Not in the least ! ’ she said quickly , too quickly , her voice thick . |
| 23 | ARDS manager Paul Malone was n't in the least bit perturbed at his side 's inept display at Newry . |
| 24 | He ai n't interested in the least ! |
| 25 | No I was n't , no I was n't in the least bit impressed with it . |
| 26 | that does n't bother me , but considering it was only the second I 'd spoken to him and I did not fancy him in the least erm , it really made my skin crawl . |
| 27 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 28 | Pam Nelson may not yet be a household name but if this young American progresses in the same manner as previous Pilkington Glass U.21 Champions Steffi Graf , Arantxa Sanchez , Jana Novotna and Manuela Maleeva , then it will not be long before her name appears in the latter stages of the world 's leading tournaments . |
| 29 | An upturn in tonnages was recorded in the latter part of the decade , however , and the threat of at least one further pipeline receded when Total Oil renewed a major contract with BR in 1988 . |
| 30 | In the latter , Albrecht comes to pray at Giselle 's grave . |