Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 2 | They reported directly to the ruler they represented , often using their own cyphers : it was quite possible for neither the foreign nor the war minister ever to see their reports . |
| 3 | The intention is to highlight how today we in this country may join through our offerings with those of little or no material wealth in the Third World in the urgent task of making human development possible for even the poorest . |
| 4 | More recently , the coming of photography has made it possible for even the least talented among us to produce our own pictorial records . |
| 5 | Indeed , it now became possible for even the temporary and seasonal migrations of Italian or Irish harvesters or railway builders to extend across the oceans . |
| 6 | In response , Congress , in the 1974 Act , included provisions requiring the president to report impoundments to the legislature , making it possible for either the House or the Senate to compel the release of impounded funds , and obliging the executive to spend them in accordance with legislative intent . |
| 7 | In such a case it is possible for either the seller or the buyer to commit an anticipatory breach of contract , i.e. to repudiate the contract before the time for performance . |
| 8 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 9 | Ideally , an archaeologist wants to obtain as much information as possible about both the stratigraphy of a site and its plan , but there is a conflict between the two approaches . |
| 10 | We know very little about how the experience of ageing will vary between those who came to this country a-s economic migrants and the indigenous population . |
| 11 | Arrowanas are large fish , reportedly reaching lengths of up to three feet ( 90cm ) , but in captivity rarely exceeding 2′ ( 60cm ) and an eighteen inch ( 45cm ) specimen would be very respectable for even the biggest of aquariums . |
| 12 | In a book such as this I can not say more than that about how the modern fieldworking anthropologist conducts his research . |
| 13 | On the other hand there 's a part of me that rejoices , that is glad he paid the way he did , that for once the world worked the way it 's supposed to , punishing the wrongdoer … and that saddens and sickens me too , because I think that this must be the way Andy feels all the time . |
| 14 | I must admit that for almost the first time I feel a stab of concern for him , a gesture of fellow regard . |
| 15 | The outcome of the strike and its immediate consequences was that for almost the first time many people , including politicians in the Republic , who had previously been unconvinced were now satisfied that the majority of people in Northern Ireland would not accept a united Ireland and wished to have another election before their future was again discussed . |
| 16 | Some rich men took utterly destitute people into their houses , where they performed menial services , and it was usual for even the moderately well-off to invite poor men and strangers off the street to eat meals at home . |
| 17 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 18 | ( d ) The expelled partner Whilst often enough the circumstances will be sufficiently clear for even the most recalcitrant individual to accept his fate , the traumatic nature of the process is highly conducive to acrimony . |
| 19 | ‘ Many people in the east are also completely unrealistic about how the country is going to change . |
| 20 | And I think those charts are very interesting about where the client base is |
| 21 | If there were a check , one need not require it to be an infallible one ; the fact that we might always be wrong about how the original sensation was ( a sort of memory scepticism ) is not a part of the argument at all . |
| 22 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 23 | Beattie found that over half of both the filled and unfilled pauses occurred immediately before the beginning of a clause . |
| 24 | What we 'll be doing is er organising an exhibition which will come on stream at the museum in the middle of February , and will run until June , and that exhibition will include you know , er all , well , some of the material that , that 's been recorded , such as the , you know , the aural history tapes , er some of perhaps the , the press cuttings and things that have come out of the motorway . |
| 25 | I was reminded of stories about some immigrant Irish who arrived in America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger , bereft of even the basic skills of domestic cookery . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the Fairley family considered themselves to be people of consequence and were careful of how the world perceived them . |
| 27 | To ensure viability of the organs , pH , PO 2 , and PCO 2 of both the arterial infusate and venous effluent were measured every hour throughout the experiments . |
| 28 | Skulls of aliens adorned the banner-hung , tapestried walls , their eyeless sockets forever blinded to the mysteries of those who had mastered them , their hollow craniums empty of even the ghost of a twisted , unhuman thought . |
| 29 | Most modern central-heating systems work very well , especially if they are regularly serviced , but things can go wrong with even the best-maintained system . |
| 30 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |