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 | You have to risk the cracking and the warping . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I hate the pompous and the phoney . |
| 8 | It 's the miracle-madness — those travelling bandits with their gilded snares to catch the ignorant and the innocent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ No , a guy by the name of Jimmy Velvet has a museum ; he has the original and the body 's busted on it . |
| 12 | Separate typesetting codes are used to indicate the typesize and the font of the text . |
| 13 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 14 | ‘ They persuade the poor and the low paid to play this game — leaving them exposed to massive fines and levies , ’ Mr Davies said . |
| 15 | Thus , Bauer 's analysis led to a sharp possible separation of the economic and the cultural , each supposedly expressing the international and the national . |
| 16 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 17 | She is a major author , straddling the intelligent and the escapist markets . |
| 18 | Election 1992 : Balancing the cost-conscious and the caring |
| 19 | In Xenopus laevis , two EF-1α genes encoding the somatic and the oocyte form were also reported ( 6 ) . |
| 20 | It might not always be possible to trace the superior or the agent concerned . |
| 21 | It is clear that in cases where the mistake relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea the outcome will be the same whether one adopts the definitional or the defence doctrine of mistake , that is ‘ the prosecution will wither on the bough . |
| 22 | Which one should I use the blue or the pink ? |
| 23 | Their obsession with gathering may , at first glance , seem no different than the fanaticism of collectors of rare books or woodblock prints . |
| 24 | If as a GP you are in somebody 's home and give a thrombolytic and the patient dies , you will be blamed . |
| 25 | It was only when Mary became a Christian that the devil came to stake a claim to his own property . |
| 26 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |
| 27 | It might have been carrying Sergei 's lifeless body : so thin a line divides the dead and the living . |
| 28 | However , a bus service offers an alternative if the going proves too taxing . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , less than half of the mammal fauna of Java , for example , survived the mid-Pleistocene and the arrival of humans . |
| 30 | It will take a little time for me to forget the hurt and the disappointment … |