Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not be far from the day of the conversation robot that will relieve us of obligation to greet politely the occasional recognisable human that strays across our path . |
| 2 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 3 | In 16 , however ( and perhaps in 15 , too ) , it is possible to argue not only that the two sentences can be used to make identical statements , but more specifically that horse and mare make effectively the same semantic contribution to their respective sentences . |
| 4 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 6 | We say " the same man " and mean numerically the same human person ; and we say " the same colour " and mean a quality that can be possessed or exemplified by different individuals . |
| 7 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 8 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 9 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 10 | Lettaford in North Bovey parish , consisting of three longhouses with later farm buildings , represents perhaps the best surviving example . |
| 11 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 12 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 13 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 14 | A pity he could not have read Alec Wilder 's American Popular Song ( 1972 ) which , using basically the same musical criteria as Adorno — derived from European bourgeois art music — could have been designed as a riposte to his view of this repertory |
| 15 | The obvious way of handling things is to connect together the two 0 volt terminals in order to give the central 0 volt output . |
| 16 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 17 | ‘ Light ’ , in fact , plays perhaps the largest single part in keeping the public happy . |
| 18 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 19 | Staff of the Tectonics and Database Group ( bringing together the former Deep Geology Group and the Land Survey database staff ) continued to provide much specialist input to the multidisciplinary mapping projects that are a major part of the BGS Core programme . |
| 20 | Somalia , independent since 1960 , was formed by bringing together the former British Somaliland Protectorate and the UN Trust Territory of Somalia ( once an Italian colony ) . |
| 21 | Hang the door within the aluminium frame using only the two outer screws in each hinge . |
| 22 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 23 | Get rid of the pensioners : bring in the fit young props reared on body-fat callipers , VO2 max and three Weetabix for breakfast . |
| 24 | So what happens if a purchaser claims that he wishes to acquire only the basic wordprocessing part of the sophisticated package , perhaps because he or she wishes the output to be compatible with a machine on which all the bells and whistles have been legitimately installed ? |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 26 | It has arguably the best-performing four-cylinder engine that you can get and more safety features than any of its rivals . |
| 27 | While Piłsudski was to accuse the KPP of undoing his own hard work as military leader and of trying to dismember Poland by ‘ Trojan horse methods ’ , Moscow decided to rein in the free-thinking Polish socialists . |
| 28 | An austerity programme begun in September 1988 was beginning to bite , raising fears that Peking would try to rein in the independent-minded southern provinces . |
| 29 | Behind the beautifully restored façades of the buildings with their smart paint and gabled roofs there was evidence of a rich and varied culture , Gina observed , walking down the crowded cobbled pathway where restaurants and cafés spilled out towards the water 's edge . |
| 30 | Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics which have a larger share of world dairy production than the EC yet command less than 10pc of the world export posed perhaps the biggest medium term threat . |