Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A real success story in the Charnos range is the ‘ Luxury lace top hold up ’ retailing at £4.99 , designed for the 90 's tight fitting Lycra outerwear , it gives a stocking look without the suspenders . |
| 2 | " The cabinet diplomacy at which ( Bismarck ) excelled in the 1860s was no longer possible in the 1880s ; public opinion was beginning to influence policy making it impossible to turn friendships on and off at will . " |
| 3 | The glam young directors who surfaced in the 1980s are already part of the scenery . |
| 4 | Companies trying to succeed and survive in the '90s are under growing pressure to give a quality service , often with reduced resources . |
| 5 | Branches dominated by the left are less likely to be racialist , but unfortunately in many areas with large immigrant populations , like Leicester and Loughborough , the important union bureaucracies are controlled by the right wing . |
| 6 | Loans made during the 1950s were mainly for the development of infrastructure , such as transport and electric power schemes . |
| 7 | Other forms of words instilled into the young are also present . |
| 8 | If a claim is lost in court , the pain , loss and damage suffered by the haulier is obviously much greater . |
| 9 | The pact made by the nine is probably already dead . |
| 10 | Whether the diversity depicted above is reflected in the presence of two tests , rational basis and rightness , or whether we should simply work through the former is largely a matter of semantics . |
| 11 | Both may find a certain irony in the fact that some of the CPF industrial co-operatives founded in the 1880s are still trading successfully , while many retail co-operatives have failed , and have in the process of rescue become assimilated into other societies , so losing their individual identities and the reality of the democratic practice they are meant to activate , From well over 1,000 retail societies in the 1930s , the number has dwindled to 100 ; and the possibility of reducing it to 25 has been discussed ( see Chapter 1 above ) . |
| 12 | But still tariff cuts in the sixties were certainly an important influence on the trade during the period . |
| 13 | The bulk of the wood used in the six is still maple , although the ET range utilises a five-piece neck laminate , with two pieces of bubinga flanking the thin central section of maple . |
| 14 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
| 15 | Now that we have video in the classroom the opportunity to focus on the visual is clearly there , so should we attempt to include it in a systematic way ? |
| 16 | That broad hint that ‘ health and vigour ’ are the prerogative of the under-65s , and the rather offensive recommendation that , given equal conditions , the chalice should be offered to the young are both blatant examples of age discrimination . |
| 17 | Even so , parallels with the 1930s are far more compelling now than they were in 1987 . |
| 18 | The use of subroutines to deal with the unpredictable is especially obvious in navigation . |
| 19 | The dominant critique of local government as it existed in the 1960s was relatively straightforward . |
| 20 | School atlases in the 1950s were still coloured half in red . |
| 21 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 22 | Reservoir rocks for the coalification gases deriving from the Westphalian are mainly sandstones of the Rotliegend ( Lower Permian ) . |
| 23 | Only when a significant amount of food preparation moved from the home to food factories and when people became considerably more interested in what they were eating in the 1960s was there pressure to have more informative labels . |
| 24 | Facilities at the workhouse for treating the sick and coping with the elderly were gradually expanded . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Derry Baha'is said : ‘ The fact that these documents have been brought into the open is very important . |
| 26 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 27 | The economic problems experienced in the 1980s are largely due to the destabilizing impact of the civil war in Mozambique . |
| 28 | Erm , David , that really er is about er four point four , the parallel activity necessary sister companies er to erm make sure that the same message is getting across , and that whatever they are saying to the continental is actually supporting our attempts to er erm become the preferred supplier . |
| 29 | Atmosphere , feeling worthwhile and being stretched to the full are greatly influenced by the attitudes and consequent operational politics introduced by those who manage the operation . |
| 30 | In practice , even the threat that a merger might be referred to the MMC was often sufficient to induce the companies to drop their merger proposals . |