Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contemporary times , the cultural field of these symbol-producing middle classes undergoes such expansion , such ‘ mass-ification ’ , that it begins to engulf or implode into the more general social field itself . |
| 2 | More positively , we discover how problems that result from the shrinking of family ties to what we call the ‘ nuclear family ’ are alleviated or avoided in the more flexible kinship arrangements of many tribal peoples . |
| 3 | So , starting with the driver as pilot , a car was designed and built around the most important component . |
| 4 | He also told reporters : ‘ It was completed on time and is a first class facility , designed and engineered to the very highest standards . |
| 5 | In time he was to meet and correspond with the most prominent political leaders of his nation , and become a trusted adviser to them . |
| 6 | A little way along , Vern stopped and sat on the very same wall and gazed up the gorge , like I 'd done , at the high flying bridge . |
| 7 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 8 | I have seen Koi survive and thrive in the most unlikely ponds , providing their owners provide knowledgeable TLC , and I have witnessed good carp caught by anglers using rods apparently fit only to support runner beans . |
| 9 | With the growth in numbers in asylums , however , and the take-over by medical men rather than educators , the early conviction that education could lead to improvement and a return to the community was eroded and replaced by the more pessimistic approach reflected in the oppressive institutions of this century . |
| 10 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 11 | For a while business was brisk , then the crowd drifted away to watch an old man further down the lane who cavorted and danced in the most fantastical way . |
| 12 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 13 | Sir Jack Brabham says he 's never been so excited about a new motor car and the challenge is to go and take on the best |
| 14 | They seemed so much less menacing than the crows that pecked and fought in the newly harvested fields at home . |
| 15 | Late in the afternoon , he asked and obtained from the now bemused Prior the services of the lay brother who had accompanied them to Earlston . |
| 16 | This finality makes it proper to regard death as the most serious harm that may be inflicted on another , and to regard a person who chooses to inflict that harm as the most culpable of offenders , in the absence of some excuse or justification . |
| 17 | The creature writhed and grimaced in the most horrible manner , malignance imprinted in its every contour . |
| 18 | I turned and looked at the subtly tarted , much breathed-upon 300 sitting at the kerb , then made a show of sizing up Yvonne . |
| 19 | Charity turned and looked in the faintly wavering glass behind their bedroom door . |
| 20 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 21 | My staff and governors wonder if the town council would be willing to help and restore in the much loved seat . |
| 22 | Deixis is the most context-specific linguistic element , and it exists and occurs in the most situation-free as well as the most situation-bound utterances . |
| 23 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 24 | ( When Ms Arrowsmith returned to her pacifist work , she was again arrested , but this time prosecuted and convicted under the more severe Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 . |
| 25 | I 'll try and get through the neutrally . |
| 26 | Elsewhere you will hear a Black Eyes Etude ( Op. 10 No. 5 ) wickedly tinted and inflected despite the most vertiginous brilliance and rapidly of reflex , and an Aeolian Harp ( Op. 25 No. 1 ) where the melody glides across a harmonic haze as if on air cushions . |
| 27 | However , this volume , which appeared in 1916 , can remind us how techniques of archaeology have changed over this century , since the volume included hardly any of the small and often illegible coins which have been found and published in the more recent ( 1981 ) volume of Sardis finds . |
| 28 | Firstly , it is important to look at the stages of budgeting and move from the functional processes of acquisition , allocation , spending and control to the more strategic resource activities of planning , choice and evaluation . |
| 29 | However , an increasing number of cases are being reported in which patients ' pain does not respond as expected to the most powerful opiates . |
| 30 | Like all good selectors , they had not been swayed or influenced by the most recent of events and clearly stuck to a game plan which may well have been devised before the 1992–93 season even commenced . |