Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 2 | I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour . |
| 3 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |
| 4 | Overjoyed at having a recognised part to play , he taught the Scriptures , but spent most of his time assisting the poor and the ailing . |
| 5 | The mortgage rates may fluctuate , but the administration and the repayments remain the same until the time comes to adjust . |
| 6 | You have to risk the cracking and the warping . |
| 7 | It must be stressed that the concept of The Smiths will remain the same and the group will continue to promote their forthcoming single and album releases and are eager to plan live dates once a new guitarist has been selected . ’ |
| 8 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 9 | But then the got the electric and the county water but the Sten the Kirkwall Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and the Stenness Hotel was all connected with the man 's own private phone . |
| 10 | I hate the pompous and the phoney . |
| 11 | It 's the miracle-madness — those travelling bandits with their gilded snares to catch the ignorant and the innocent . |
| 12 | Tillich concludes from this that even the most profound expression of compassion within Buddhism can not be compared with agape because it lacks the power to accept the unacceptable and the desire to change man and his society . |
| 13 | Let's leave the ‘ great voice ’ of Anita Baker and her ilk to dorks like Nicky Cambell while we celebrate the cracked and the imperfect . |
| 14 | ‘ No , a guy by the name of Jimmy Velvet has a museum ; he has the original and the body 's busted on it . |
| 15 | Separate typesetting codes are used to indicate the typesize and the font of the text . |
| 16 | To say that the other can remain absolutely other , that he enters only into the relationship of conversation , is to say that history itself , an identification of the same , can not claim to totalise the same and the other . |
| 17 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 18 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 19 | Even when the police car was able to surge up on to the elevated section of the motorway at Chiswick , the stream of traffic moved no faster and the Jaguar continued to glow in Dexter 's headlamps . |
| 20 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 21 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 22 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 23 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 24 | ‘ They persuade the poor and the low paid to play this game — leaving them exposed to massive fines and levies , ’ Mr Davies said . |
| 25 | My mother always kept letters in their envelopes and a lot of other people must have done the same or the stamp business generally would have been the poorer . ’ |
| 26 | In the present case there were clearly grounds for doubts about whether the accounting period ended on 25 October 1977 or 31 January 1978 , W believing the former and the company contending the latter . |
| 27 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 28 | Thus , Bauer 's analysis led to a sharp possible separation of the economic and the cultural , each supposedly expressing the international and the national . |
| 29 | Who , some calculate , will each on average receive no more than the equivalent of £500 for loss of family , loss of earnings and permanent physical damage . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |