Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , er she come about aye , that 's what I were on about , I says , d' ya know I feel right sorry for Maggie out the lot of you ! |
| 2 | Surprisingly though some like Whitbread back the principle . |
| 3 | We are not unfamiliar with situations where the best we can do in practice is to assign probabilities , not because events are fundamentally acausal but because their detailed mechanism lies at a level too deep to be accessible to us . |
| 4 | However , if the rate of tax on policyholders ' funds at maturity is different from 25% then the benefits payable will be reviewed . |
| 5 | The contrastive nature of linguistic categories is clear in cases where the category label contains two words : for example a transitive verb obviously contrasts with other types of verb ( intransitive verbs , linking verbs , etc ) . |
| 6 | But this approach seems unnecessarily rigid in cases where the matters which would give grounds for judicial review could also be resolved by the alternative process . |
| 7 | Nor were they interested in trade-offs whereby the British should be the senior partner in the Middle East in return for American leadership in the Far East . |
| 8 | If for instance this was a criminal trial as to which will rule this to inadmissibility exactly the same . |
| 9 | It would be wrong to single out the Clinton administration for criticism . |
| 10 | It is pleasant in the port area , impressive near the castle , interesting at Bygdøy where the Viking ships are displayed on part of the large and excellent museum complex . |
| 11 | But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned . |
| 12 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 13 | It is striking , for example , that detailed studies of the relations between religious dissent and the promotion of science in eighteenth-century Britain have located the correlation in expanding northern towns such as Manchester where the ulterior forces were population growth , increase in wealth , a certain social and geographical isolation , a zest for political reform , and a concern for moral values prompted by the seamier side of city life . |
| 14 | This need for ‘ distance ’ from political control has given rise to the doctrine of the ‘ arm's-length ’ relationship in countries such as Britain where the classic form of the state enterprise has been the ‘ public corporation ’ under the control of a ‘ sponsor ’ department . |
| 15 | If this is true , it would further increase the problems of control in countries such as Britain where the form of the public corporation relied on the notion of the ‘ professional ideal ’ of self-regulation , trust and responsibility to ensure that the ‘ national interest ’ was furthered ( Burrage 1973 ) . |
| 16 | The short-term lets often suit people such as students when the off-season coincides with their term , but for families the disruption of having to move out for the summer is frustrating . |
| 17 | ‘ It can be difficult to make your child take lengthy courses of treatments such as antibiotics when the average treatment can last for seven days — an eternity to a child However , newer , shorter-course antibiotic treatments are now available from your doctor , which are taken once a day for between three to five days . |
| 18 | Beyond it , visible through gaps where the iron had been torn into ragged wings and beaten back , was a junkyard in which caravans were parked . |
| 19 | Then you 'll hear from the second of officers namely the officers that went into the flat that were carrying the guns , carrying and who conducted the operation and from their evidence you 'll be able to judge whether or not the force used was reasonable and was necessary . |
| 20 | Deal & Kennedy suggest the following in situations where the culture may go against successful implementation : |
| 21 | The first year of life is enormously dangerous in countries where the statistics are being collected . |
| 22 | Should the defendant 's motive be so crucial in cases where the act is not obviously indecent , in the sense that ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not unhesitatingly classify it as such ? |
| 23 | With a few exceptions along the coast ( such as Seaford in the 1770s ) it proved more or less impossible in Sussex where the land was largely enclosed already and the soil of much of the county ill-suited to highly profitable wheat farming ; so there was little of the trauma produced elsewhere by the restructuring of the rural landscape . |
| 24 | Cheques should be made payable to MAC not the Festival . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm more concerned about how I 'm going to feel at 2.55 on Saturday when the team run out . |
| 26 | The symptoms of over-contrast are not always easy to spot on the monochrome viewfinder picture , so it pays to be specially vigilant if the light is very bright . |
| 27 | In the truncated finale , for instance ( given a puckish rather than a trenchant slant by Kun ) , I was all too conscious of moments when the speed of articulation and lively nature of the acoustic conspired to widen the distance between soloist and woodwind , making for an uncomfortable out-of-phase sensation in their exchanges . |
| 28 | Great numbers of labouring poor were more characteristic of regions where the soil was chalk-based . |
| 29 | The depute fiscal , Sheila McDermid , said that the mother became suspicious in December when the girl , now 12 , began to talk about sex abuse after watching an episode of Emmerdale . |
| 30 | This is especially likely in cases where the dog is soiling its quarters , or showing signs of abnormal sexual behaviour , such as mounting your leg or that of visitors when they are sitting down . |