Example sentences of "the [adv] this [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 2 | The longer this salad chills the better the flavour . |
| 3 | And the bigger and sharper the spines , the longer this effect lasts . |
| 4 | The longer this situation goes on the worse things are going to get . |
| 5 | The further this empowerment goes , the harder it is to reverse , and the more the role of the communist party fades . |
| 6 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 7 | The more that generalities across the curricula are emphasized , the closer this alternative comes to being a generic curriculum . |
| 8 | Indeed , the more you possess , the faster this wealth begets more . |