Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asian families , for the most part , are organized in such a way as to keep a firm control over their children , integrating them into a tightly knit web of relationships within the community where religious traditions remain strong and create in the members a respect for norms , seniority and morality . |
| 2 | Here , the English Tourist Board and the local authority decided the magnificent fifteenth-century castle , if it was to remain intact and open to the public , would not find a purchaser without permission for development . |
| 3 | What evidence there was supported a relatively minor charge under military standing orders and the soldier concerned was charged , found guilty and punished under the powers accorded to the commanding officer . |
| 4 | All day long the shears snipped away the hours until the sun sank low and disappeared behind the trees . |
| 5 | I do n't want to be roasted alive and eaten by the Gruncher . ’ |
| 6 | I held her , trying to appear calm and composed on the outside , a shaking wreck on the inside . |
| 7 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 8 | That 's a bit bland , is n't it ? ’ he challenged teasingly , his eyes appearing dark and glittering in the dim light of the candles , and his lashes impossibly long and thick . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I realised I had to work hard and concentrate on the job . |
| 10 | As spring came , with the supreme optimism of Nature , the shattered trees pushed out a new leaf here and there , but soon these too dropped sick and wilting in the poisonous atmosphere . |
| 11 | In the morning Oliver , who had come late and slept on the couch , started a conversation which suggested he was wavering about leaving the flat . |
| 12 | It looks healthy and comes to the top of the tank , as usual when I walk into the room . |
| 13 | A study of crime in London 's inner cities in the 1980s painted a gloomy picture of how ‘ ordinary policing ’ , as it was termed , was fast diminishing , with the police becoming alienated and marginalized from the community and increasingly reliant on high-profile strategies of crime control which destroyed the principle of consensus policing ( Kinsey et al . |
| 14 | Occasionally a garishly painted truck passed us , raising a cloud of dust , and away to the west , hanging over us and clearly visible now that the clouds had lifted , the coastal range of the cordilleras towered pale and trembling in the heat . |
| 15 | We then moved close and fired from the hip and shoulder in reflex action shooting . |
| 16 | WEAR AND TEAR — These risks are considered uninsurable and relate to the cost of carrying out maintenance work generally . |
| 17 | From a free kick on the right , Chris Williams sent over the accurate ball for Steve Hodges to meet unchallenged and score at the far corner with his head . |
| 18 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 19 | Lockhart 's flight became lost and returned to the carrier , then set off again with two hours ' fuel already gone . |
| 20 | So my dad he got snarky and barked at the shark . |
| 21 | Hutchison 's chip seemed to hit Rushy and bounce past the spellbound ( IS THAT AS BAD AS BAMNBOOZLED ? ) |
| 22 | This meeting recognises the need for urgency and therefore invites the CLE to make a full report of the result of the independent review in consultation with the CRE by 31st December 1992 , such report to be made public and put before the Bar Council meeting in January 1993 . |
| 23 | Such formidable economic successes gave the German people a new confidence and allowed the expansion of social services , with a major pensions reform in 1957 , when old age pensions were made universal and tied to the cost of living . |
| 24 | He seemed embarrassed and stammered for the first time in his English . |
| 25 | Some of these phases may dissolve and the coatings will break down by a combination of solution and particle attrition as less soluble particles break free and migrate into the body . |
| 26 | Rogers twisted free and pounded across the grass . |
| 27 | Drifts of rain came up Loch Maree as I plowtered wet and chilled along the lochside to find the spot for JTR 's ‘ Loch Maree ’ . |
| 28 | He moulded his hands along the long , slender curve of her back , and the towel came untucked and slipped to the floor . |
| 29 | Did you feel comfortable and relaxed in the salon ? |
| 30 | Uppark will first be made weatherproof and opened to the public for six days in November before restoration work begins . |