Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knew better than her the strength of William Ash 's bullying personality ? |
| 2 | No man knew better than he the value of a generous gesture . |
| 3 | ‘ Shelley understood better than you the passionate quest for truth which overrides any other considerations in the heart of those who would open the secrets of nature , whether scientists or poets . |
| 4 | However , MPs who wish to satisfy their constituency parties could vote Smith-Prescott and still retain some left-wing credibility , while ordinary party members understand better than anyone the need for an organisational shake-up . |
| 5 | Er this er James can I ask you erm if we could establish what the stage er the next stage remain unspent probably er so that we the er paper indicates er er schedule of balance of a thousand pounds . |
| 6 | And all these are going to sort of pile up so that your The chemistry that you do know is going to you know |
| 7 | So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there . |
| 8 | Many firms using the bubble policy have found that the resulting pollution was less than what the law allows , a circumstance that grants them a credit towards added pollution in the future . |
| 9 | Perha perhaps if I the appeal site wedge with the erm intending to build a road through it . |
| 10 | I shall nevertheless vote against the motion and I shall vote for the amendment although as much as I wished it had happened or , or erm a different proposal to Mr because I do n't think it helps your argument when you call your opponents instead of arguing face and er unlike Mr I actually do believe its in subsidiarity and I think we should accept Leicester and Leicester only and what the Leicester hunt will do should be decided here in Leicester , not in Westminster , er any more than the composition of our offices should be , should be decided in Brussels and I believe in subsidiarity . |
| 11 | The most ruthless campaigns against northern peoples who refused to submit appear to have taken place in the east — perhaps because there the proximity of the Okhotsk coast , and the mountainous terrain , left fewer possibilities open for escape from the Russian soldiers . |
| 12 | Also , where the company subsequent to granting a floating charge containing a negative pledge provision purchases property leaving part of the purchase secured by a mortgage , the mortgage will take priority , even if the mortgage has actual notice so long as what the company acquired was the equity of redemption subject to the mortgage . |
| 13 | Specimen covenant : The Transferee hereby covenants with the Transferor by way of indemnity only that [ so long as he the Transferee is the registered proprietor of the property hereby transferred ] he will observe and perform the [ positive ] covenants contained or referred to in Entry No 1 of the charges register of the said Title . |
| 14 | It has been accused of actually making policy itself , pronouncing on the basis of what it thinks the law should be rather than what the law is . |
| 15 | The ability to hear what you hoped you 'd hear rather than what the other person is saying . |
| 16 | They should be seeing what they can offer in the modern world rather than what the law does and how it links to the client . ’ |
| 17 | There will be more coverage of what the industry is doing , rather than what the HCIMA is doing , although we will tell you what we , as the professional body of the industry , think about it . |
| 18 | In this view the concern is for what the process of study contributes to the pupil 's development rather than what the religion being studied contributes to that development . |
| 19 | The first is the ethical difficulty associated with the need to give a patient the treatment that is believed to be best for him or her as an individual rather than what the statistician 's random allocation might assign . |
| 20 | The essential skill in setting call objectives is to phrase them in terms of what the salesperson wants the customer to do rather than what the salesperson will do . |
| 21 | It 's just that whatever the reality of your condition verifying it will constitute a kind of catharsis — do you know what that means ? ’ |
| 22 | It means they have improved access to information on what holidays sell best and what the customer wants . |
| 23 | It would n't hurt for some of them throwing away but none the right size of course . |
| 24 | Consider delaying the flash till he 's gone by a bit further or whatever the case may be . |
| 25 | So we are looking at creating a society with our rich peasants who are going to own significantly more than whatever the average is going to be , and significantly more than middle peasants . |
| 26 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 27 | But this misses Grice 's essential insight , namely that what the speaker means by U is not necessarily closely related to the meaning of 0 at all . |
| 28 | Human activities , now , are upsetting this dialogue , and we will look at how we are changing the atmosphere , ever so slightly but none the less crucially , in ways that could endanger all of life . |
| 29 | So is he to be he does n't know whether to just carry on or to put a stop to it now or what the hell to do |
| 30 | The snag here is that when the contours of the sand and soil take a sharp turn up , down , sideways or whatever the rabbit follows the same line . |