Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation .
2 By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level .
3 ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’
4 The proposal for a Rhyl relief road could mean yet another where it crosses the A525 .
5 ‘ Is this where I make the noble suggestion of keeping away at weekends to leave you free to sail as much as you want ? ’ he demanded .
6 A small proportion of the absorbed light will sometimes be re-radiated and it is this that we term the fluorescence .
7 It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy .
8 The girl was so frightened by this that she opened the door herself .
9 Later that year , when the giant 's favourite boar was killed by an arrow fired from an unknown bow , he was so enraged by this that he took the first-born of all his tenants and threatened to kill them unless the guilty one came forward or some other person informed on them .
10 After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems .
11 Don Sargent 's diagrams of Great Zawn in particular , are excellent and should help demystify areas like this so they achieve the popularity they deserve .
12 A course plan will be displayed — check this so you know the rough direction of the course .
13 I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that .
14 We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states .
15 We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one .
16 At Faringdon 's , the singers stood on chairs but I do not usually do this if I sing the song with children .
17 You need a television , yeah , but you need a special special dish erm in Eurostep 's own publicity — I looked at this and they say the programme is available with , you know , sort of cheap and readily available sort of satellite dishes .
18 Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule .
19 D' ya remember going through this and what did the fella say on the phone , can you remember ?
20 St. Tue , whose hermit 's cell was nearby , heard of this and he attended the gathering to challenge Ulther , the leader of the giants , to a trial of strength .
21 Drink more than this and you run the risk of developing high blood pressure , which in turn can lead to heart attack or stroke .
22 Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to .
23 I stood engrossed by this until I heard the rocking chair creak behind me , and at that I scampered up after them .
24 But , and I did n't know this until I read the book , if you stand next to something that is triangular shaped , like , say , a triangle , it will give you a great feeling of harmony , and you wo n't give a f— about not having a place to live . ’
25 Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off .
26 If you have more space , you could create a series of pools with the water falling from one to another until it reaches the lowest in a continual cycle .
27 When a drifting particle of food touches an arm , tube feet fasten on to it and pass it on from one to another until it reaches the gutter that runs down the upper surface of the arm to the mouth at the centre .
28 To each of these may be added another if we count the faunal extinctions brought about by man in the last million years or so .
29 There was some truth in this but I expect the practice still goes on today .
30 ‘ I do n't do things like this unless they have the full knowledge and approval of the Royal Family . ’
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