Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reiterating that ‘ there 's no such thing as ‘ race ’ ’ offers only the frail reassurance that there should n't be a problem . |
| 2 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 3 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 4 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 5 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
| 6 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
| 7 | Sexuality lies emblazoned across the surface of pop culture in the careless whispers of countless love songs , yet this apparent confirmation of dominant sex codes — heterosexual , same-age , monogamous relationships — cloaks a far more ambiguous relationship to sex and gender that illustrates well the ambiguous standing that pop culture has within our society . |
| 8 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 9 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 10 | Now , pedicures is really a manicure of the toes , but what we do with a pedicure , we actually rub away the hard skin that you may have on the bottom of your feet , on the side of your big toe , that 's usually where it builds up , or on the ball of the foot . |
| 11 | He outraged respectable Victorian society by his public championing of the poor and his denunciations of the uncaring rich ; in addition , he not only espoused the cause of the theatre and ballet as harmless and enjoyable pastimes , but rejected entirely the received opinion that these entertainments constituted the inescapable gateway to the everlasting bonfire . |
| 12 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 13 | These examples should bring home the great difference that there is for Moore between intrinsic good and bad and anything of the nature of pleasure or pain . |
| 14 | Even if , to the youth , ‘ living was more important than education ’ , engaging in competitive sport can bring home the new realization that achieving results in education can be important to living . |
| 15 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 16 | Erm and and yeah an and we were thinking oh yeah we look really good and we go along and , but there 's so many other girls wearing exactly the same thing that you just blend in , you do n't you know what I mean ? |
| 17 | Those parts of the Bill are vehicles for British Rail to do work that is publicly demanded but which it resolutely refuses to give even the slightest hint that it contemplates . |
| 18 | So you see , Miss Abbott , though he might never , on account of his birth , want for money , he lacks sadly the human love that lucre can in no way replace . |
| 19 | Headlong she ran , heedless of the branches that caught at her , tearing at her dark stuff gown , ripping away the white cap that covered her hair . |
| 20 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is hindsight which has allowed us to understand fully the sheer technique that went into Bogart 's acting but many people at Warners could see Mayo 's point that he was just the type of actor needed to breathe life into the kind of story that the writers were making into a speciality . |
| 22 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 23 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |
| 24 | In what the Minister has just said , I detect exactly the same argument that he and many others used to justify the flat rate principle of the poll tax . |
| 25 | I can not ignore even the slightest chance that she may have survived . |
| 26 | She saw in Rachel 's face three years of loss and loneliness ; she saw too the simpler anger that Rachel would never dare to express . |
| 27 | Erm I I think does but er I do n't think it er became quite the successful initiative that er that they hoped it would be . |
| 28 | For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds . |
| 29 | With a groan that seemed to come from the bottom of the earth , Luke reached down and tore away the lacy silk that covered her . |
| 30 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |