Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 2 | There 's only three of us having that cos our the girls are going out . |
| 3 | This silence of the masses had a depressing effect , and probably reflects better than anything the attitudes of the population . |
| 4 | Don Reading , of Save The Children , has just returned from Somalia and said : ‘ This matter needed more than anything the chance to reach the people . |
| 5 | It therefore seems probable that what the early personality studies of living creative subjects had revealed was their tendency to the schizoidness of which Bleuler writes , and which would now be referred to as ‘ schizotypy ’ . |
| 6 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 7 | But she could not work out what the point was that Spruce thought obvious but which the clergy — herself included — had n't grasped . |
| 8 | A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated . |
| 9 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 10 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 11 | Other things to think about when you 're identifying training alright a handout for you identifying training needs at this stage just to make sure that ya the are still out . |
| 12 | Erm , it 's very important that we find a joint way forward to make sure that whatever the future of local government is in this county , there is an effi effective and efficient purchasing erm , er service me who did the moving . |