Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 2 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 3 | ‘ It 's either that or take the job the youth employment officer has set up for me . ’ |
| 4 | It was either that or tackle the beast with his bare hands . |
| 5 | When asked to appear in ’ Frankie 's On ’ for Central , the comedian answered , ’ Well it was either that or join the Chippendales . ’ |
| 6 | It 's either that or taking a day 's leave on the Friday . |
| 7 | ‘ It was that or see the world destroyed . ’ |
| 8 | That OR play a team like Aston Villa home or away as they try and win whatever … so you always get open games . |
| 9 | Well would you rather do that or have a conservatory ? |
| 10 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 11 | If it is clear that a listed building is being neglected and is in urgent need of repair , and the owner has no plans to remedy this or to sell the property , the next stage is simple . |
| 12 | Camp authorities are either unaware of this or turn a blind eye . |
| 13 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 14 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 15 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 16 | The difficulties which most frequently arise concern the financial problems which arise when individual barristers move from one chambers to another or leave the Bar . |
| 17 | One other element of this that deserves a brief outline was the adoption in 1925 of a contributory pension scheme to run alongside the non-contributory one . |
| 18 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 19 | It is because of things like this that delivering the intervention ( and anything else ) to parents is a matter of problem-solving negotiation . |
| 20 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 21 | It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector . |
| 22 | The liberals of the Cortes of Cadiz accepted this dissolution as a fait accompli and it was this that made the Orders the chief enemies of liberalism in Spain . |
| 23 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |
| 24 | It is this that bears the most striking contrast to the equivalent moments in Romeo and Juliet . |
| 25 | It is this that turns a get-away-from-it-all holiday into a get-away-from-only-a-bit-of-it one . |
| 26 | It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men . |
| 27 | ‘ However the document granting the Licence gave Mr Manners the right to exclusive occupation of the land and it was this that persuaded the High Court that occupation rights under Licence are no different from those under tenancy , ’ explained Mr Hewitt . |
| 28 | Even if we had no standard semantics to characterise , it would still be necessary to investigate the structure of the classes of inter-transformable programs , because it is only this that reveals the true power of a set of laws . |
| 29 | If , for instance , the therapist believes that the client 's marital problems are undermining their confidence and feelings of security , and it is this that prevents the client from achieving other tasks , then the therapist 's endeavours should be aimed at this problem first . |
| 30 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |