Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd the old hens closed in with them they the young birds would have no chance . |
| 2 | You might find out for me what the official version is . ’ |
| 3 | Carrying out preparatory investigations and interviews This is not always done , but some researchers , aware of the problems outlined in the discussion on forming hunches and hypotheses above , spend time at this early stage in conducting informal interviews with people in order to find out from them what the key issues are . |
| 4 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 5 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |