Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The obvious way of handling things is to connect together the two 0 volt terminals in order to give the central 0 volt output . |
| 4 | Hang the door within the aluminium frame using only the two outer screws in each hinge . |
| 5 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 6 | And it 's carried over our list , so we 've actually picked up the seven two O five now as single source . |
| 7 | In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal . |
| 8 | Because of the range of the respective sizes of each range and the feel of the marker pens themselves , I chose to try out the KC-1100 Twin Point Pens in a studio context and the KC-400 Brush Pens in the field . |
| 9 | The National Society for Clean Air who 've carried out the five million pound survey said power stations in Eastern Europe are the main cause of the problem . |
| 10 | The emigration has been encouraged by a series of British Nationality Acts stripping even the 3.25 million people holding Hong Kong ‘ British ’ passports of any rights to residence in Britain . |
| 11 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 12 | Do you know where the two little catches are . |
| 13 | They will be able to send you some materials to give you a plan for getting started and to help you think through the two important questions : |
| 14 | The seven virtues put together the three theological virtues which arise from man 's relationship to God as his creator , and are the condition of all Christian action — faith , hope and charity — with the four classical virtues which relate to man as a social being : justice towards others , prudence in distinguishing good from evil in the world , fortitude in all circumstances , " whethir so betides " and temperance to achieve a balanced life-style to " lyff skillwisely [ with discretion ] als the lawe techis " . |
| 15 | His swearing in by Mr Husak will bring together the two opposite poles of Czechoslovak politics — the unyielding dissident and the man most closely connected with the hard-line Communist regime that followed the Soviet-led 1968 invasion . |
| 16 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 17 | Cut out the two top corners ( about 2·5cm/1inch down and along ) to distinguish the head . |
| 18 | Finance director spelt out the two main points emerging from Courtaulds 1992–93 results : |
| 19 | The matrix in figure 4.2 merely uses a 3 × 3 system of classification , rather than BCG 's 2 × 2 , to split out the three different policy categories more clearly . |
| 20 | Nadine 's mother Geraldine , 28 , told how the two young friends had been inseparable . |
| 21 | Try to tense only the one specific area at a time , e.g. do not clench your teeth and contort your face if you 're trying to create tension in the hand by squeezing your fist . |
| 22 | A British expert on Ukrainian military matters , Roy Allison , from Birmingham university , says that , if Ukraine faced only the three military districts in European Russia , the balance of equipment and weapons would be three-to one in Ukraine 's favour . |
| 23 | So , the picture basically shows just the one main line of evolution , guided by my aesthetic selection . |
| 24 | Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis . |
| 25 | The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year . |
| 26 | Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies |
| 27 | Consider now the four basic circuit connections by means of which feedback is implemented . |
| 28 | It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass . |
| 29 | Detailed police forensic work uncovered how the two young women — best friends on a holiday together — fought frantically to save themselves from slaughter . |
| 30 | Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 . |