Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 2 | It may well be , however , that this approach misses important explanatory factors which account for why the military-industrial complex has developed . |
| 3 | Government services account for approximately the same share of national output as manufacturing . |
| 4 | Further analysis showed no differences in results between schools in which the projects were taught for only the minimum time compared with those that taught it for longer . |
| 5 | Printed by Imprimeries Réunies , Lausanne , the books are intended for both the general public and scholars . |
| 6 | But there is — for all our reflection — so much we do not know about even the simplest town scene . |
| 7 | To recommend what , in general terms , pupils need to know about how the English language works and in consequence what they should have been taught , and be expected to understand , on this score , at ages 7 , 11 and 16 . ’ |
| 8 | Only by qualifying for either the English Tourist Board crown grading and quality scheme , or one of the other nationally recognised quality schemes , can establishments be singles out with the relevant symbol and this is the result of independent , objective assessment by trained inspectors , not as a result of decisions by council staff . |
| 9 | All these can act against only the aquatic stages , that is to say they are ‘ larvicides ’ and , as I have already emphasised , malaria control by such an attack is likely to be effective only in limited situations . |
| 10 | They would possibly attack with all the more force , to avenge him . |
| 11 | Nevertheless there is considerable evidence that the immune system interacts with both the nervous system and the hormones . |
| 12 | Paul 's teaching must have come with all the more force to his original hearers . |
| 13 | I was quite evidently not a person to be trusted with even the simplest task . |
| 14 | Hidden for centuries under plaster , the architrave of the main doorway is now revealed to be a monumental inscription from the time of the Emperor Trajan , which must have come from either the Roman baths or the imperial mint , both of which are nearby . |
| 15 | France and Italy have been cited as examples of countries in which the maintenance of group and individual integrity is stressed in both the general culture and in political life . |
| 16 | Sand equipment can be varied in much the same way as the teacher would vary the equipment at the water tray . |
| 17 | England manager Keith Fletcher yesterday confirmed that the 23-year-old had been omitted from both the senior trip and the A team tour to Australia for disciplinary reasons . |
| 18 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 19 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 20 | He says a case could be made for Manchester 's fullback , but in no sport are players picked from outside the national leagues — and anyway we can all spend hours picking players unlucky not to tour . |
| 21 | The variation is constrained in much the same way as present-day phonological variation in speech communities is observed to be constrained . |
| 22 | Clearly , you will not be able to insert the details of the title , but the address of the property , the date , the consideration , the parties and any special provisions as mentioned above can be included in exactly the same way as if the land were registered . |
| 23 | 62.2 per cent of male and 68.4 per cent of female unskilled workers were born in West Ham , only 12.3 per cent and 7.5 per cent respectively originated from outside the metropolitan area ( Table 1.4 ) . |
| 24 | It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time . |
| 25 | But all that happens to him is that he topples into the mud with his arm broken and his face bruised from where the broken arm was smashed against it . |
| 26 | Until you are consistently getting the photos you want from inside the photographic sector , you will need to fly some distance beyond the turning point so that you do not have to be in a very steep turn or exactly positioned . |
| 27 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 28 | Its officials may not have come to exactly the same conclusions as I did , but they should have tried to find out . |
| 29 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 30 | I think you 've come to really the wrong committee to try and get money . |