Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook hands with the Scotland Yard man , who left to report progress to the one o'clock COBRA committee . |
| 2 | If you want crosses from the second forward then bring in Shutt . |
| 3 | No cash changed hands and the friendly acquisition was completed via a stock swap arrangement between the two privately held firms under US accounting rules . |
| 4 | The scheme is intended for post-16 students in any language ( including English ) , and teachers are encouraged to design courses in the practical predominantly oral use of language . |
| 5 | If the national curriculum were about bringing difference Into the open instead of separating the desirable from the undesirable and suppressing the latter , we might see more people who are confident in their identity and can integrate from the basis of knowledge and strength rather than one of weakness . |
| 6 | Suicide for this reason — to free mankind of the consoling yet imprisoning fictions of religion — is the highest expression of self-will , a perfectly free action , a divine gesture . |
| 7 | It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here . |
| 8 | Er , next week will be the last week for selling tickets for the social so if you 'd like to come tickets next week . |
| 9 | The Bill , which will become law in 1992 , makes the existing legislation on selling cigarettes to the under-16s more effective . |
| 10 | What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards . |
| 11 | The effects of such tonics are transient ; they add energy from the outside rather than help the body to make its own . |
| 12 | ‘ I spent ages on the sunbed today , ’ says his very white wife . |
| 13 | , ‘ Can we measure need in the homeless mentally ill ? |
| 14 | Trying to do things on the cheap only results in an inferior service . |
| 15 | Norman Girvan 's ( 1976 ) study of mining TNCs in the Caribbean evocatively labels this relationship ‘ Corporate Imperialism ’ . |
| 16 | They can then be spared the basic unreality of young people triumphing in circumstances too much for their capacities as well as the inevitable thinness of emotional experience which is bound to restrict the scope of an author wanting to draw characters in the round rather than stereotypes . |
| 17 | He had been eager to start work upon the latter ever since the completion , and relative failure , of The Family Reunion — if only to correct the overt poeticizing and the unbalanced structure which he discerned in that drama . |
| 18 | Rather more serious , although not , therefore , more grave , is the way in which this draws attention to the conventional rather than the real distinction between characters — especially tale-tellers — at different levels of a framed narrative . |
| 19 | As a result , a three-hour tribute to the brave aqua-mammal will pre-empt tonight 's scheduled address to the nation by President North , which will now take place after the eleven o'clock nightcap news . |
| 20 | In July that year , he flew Mercury on the first ever commercial Atlantic flight with a half-ton payload , starting at Foynes and landing at Montreal some 20 hours later , navigating by astro . |
| 21 | Rawls ' theory deviates from comprehensive neutrality in requiring equal ability to pursue ideals of the good only in so far as that ability depends on the principle of equal liberty . |
| 22 | The irony of course , is that people involved in what is patently the same activity , are increasingly pulling apart from one another as they pursue their own institutional and professional goals by drawing boundaries around the same very narrow ( possibly non-existent ) patch . |
| 23 | Next , I would like to thank John for his support and encouragement I 'd like to mention Carole who has always been there when I 've needed At this point who again has always been very supportive I also want to thank members of the regional both past and present , but particularly I 'd like to thank all the regional officers and staff for their assistance and particularly George , Hugh and the officer I would also like to thank regional political officer for the Midlands and East Coast we now hold all the major positions of the Labour Party with I would also like to thank the national food and leisure committee for their help and support and particularly to David , Nick and To conclude , President , I 'd like to express my sincere thanks and love to those important people around me , my family . |
| 24 | It remains the policy of the authorities to refer mergers to the MMC primarily on competition grounds . |
| 25 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 26 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 27 | Norman then appointed Managers for the three newly created regional offices . |
| 28 | He ignores information on the left even though he has no left visual field loss . |
| 29 | Mr Maconie should realise that the Roman Catholic hierarchy does f— all to help AIDS victims , seeing it as a gift from God to rid the world of some of its scum , when it has the power to change attitudes for the better all over the world . |
| 30 | Making reference to the emotive yet eccentric account compiled by the historian , Michelet , who had witnessed the French Revolution as a young boy , Kiefer has constructed twenty beds for the female martyrs and heroines of that great and terrible event . |