Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
2 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
3 | Reiterating that ‘ there 's no such thing as ‘ race ’ ’ offers only the frail reassurance that there should n't be a problem . |
4 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
5 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
6 | All she wanted was to turn the clock back and shrug off the ghastly realisation that her marriage was not what she 'd thought it was . |
7 | Ted resumed the operation of the cabin and tried to shake off the depressing atmosphere that now pervaded the small room . |
8 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
9 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
10 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
11 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
12 | To sum up the hybrid theory that has emerged : it is that non-reinforced pre-exposure to a stimulus will allow the formation of potentially interfering associations and bring about a loss of associability . |
13 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
14 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
15 | He reached under the saddle a second time and drew out the steel-tipped phallus that was attached by a chain to the pommel . |
16 | Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses . |
17 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
18 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
19 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
20 | In the geographical section of the unpublished Essay of 1844 outlining his theory of evolution , he assumed that , at a time of generally colder climate , the arctic plants would spread southwards , driving out the temperate species that were no longer adapted to the conditions . |
21 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
22 | Sexuality lies emblazoned across the surface of pop culture in the careless whispers of countless love songs , yet this apparent confirmation of dominant sex codes — heterosexual , same-age , monogamous relationships — cloaks a far more ambiguous relationship to sex and gender that illustrates well the ambiguous standing that pop culture has within our society . |
23 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
24 | Now , pedicures is really a manicure of the toes , but what we do with a pedicure , we actually rub away the hard skin that you may have on the bottom of your feet , on the side of your big toe , that 's usually where it builds up , or on the ball of the foot . |
25 | He played down the adverse conditions that had led to low lambing rates by pointing to the limit of 205,000 tonnes that could be sent to Europe under the voluntary restraint agreement . |
26 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
27 | They will give in the confident expectation that their gift will be well received . |
28 | I 'd return home and do all the usual things that keep your sense of yourself — eat , play around with children , do my washing , telephone my nearest and dearest , talk late into the night with my hosts , have fantasies , pleasure myself . |
29 | He outraged respectable Victorian society by his public championing of the poor and his denunciations of the uncaring rich ; in addition , he not only espoused the cause of the theatre and ballet as harmless and enjoyable pastimes , but rejected entirely the received opinion that these entertainments constituted the inescapable gateway to the everlasting bonfire . |
30 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |