Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal commission 's report countered this by reasserting the fundamental difference between occasional soliciting by a man ( ‘ addressed to a woman who does not resent it ’ ) and the prostitute 's immoral business , which was offensive to public decency . |
| 2 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 3 | A few strategic blows with a hammer will achieve this without shattering the whole thing , but it 's prudent to first bail out as much water as possible from the trap . |
| 4 | The project is addressing this by using the same forms to assess a comparison group of 400 children who have had no contact with social workers . |
| 5 | An attempt could be made to reverse this by increasing the dietary intake of vitamin C , but we have shown in a region of Venezuela with a high incidence of gastric cancer that oral vitamin C supplementation alone is insufficient to increase gastric juice ascorbate concentrations in the presence of H pylori infection . |
| 6 | Handrails fixed directly to the wall can be most easily refixed securely with window frame fixings , as you can do this without removing the whole rail . |
| 7 | That he could do this without awakening the slightest resentment ill the boys was a sign that they recognised that it was their work that mattered to Basil , and in no way his self-importance , which , to a quite remarkable degree he did not have . |
| 8 | He will do this by teaching the right kind of deeds , speech and thought , the right way of living , even the right places to visit or live in . |
| 9 | We can do this by making the indicated pivot in the row 03-row of P1/LP2 and the result is P1/LP3 . |
| 10 | She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality . |
| 11 | Right , so what are you gon na divide that by to get the average speed ? |
| 12 | John Smith 's always made clear that he wanted to make the minimum number of changes to his shadow cabinet and with the exception of John Prescot 's move , he 's shown his determination to do that by making the minimum number of changes . |
| 13 | And we propose to do that by extending the traditional model of client server computing , the essentially departmental solution , across the enterprise to integrate multiple computer systems across multiple multiple . |
| 14 | She followed this by joining the Royal Shakespeare Company on tour playing Juliet and later repeating this performance in the Other Place at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 15 | When you are doing small jobs , such as inserting a tee junction into a pipe , you may be able to do this without draining the whole system down . |
| 16 | They have managed to do this without losing the original character of the building ; marble fireplaces , Victorian and Georgian chests , a collection of clocks and a grand piano which has been in the house since the turn of the century , all seem to be very much at home here . |
| 17 | I have chosen to do this by reviewing the present position of the study of Romano-British coarse pottery , some of the processes by which it has been reached , the unsatisfactory nature of our present state of knowledge , and some thoughts directed towards the future . |
| 18 | A Kenlow fan was fitted but the engine overheated , we again solved this by fitting the thinner series III radiator and a special American aluminium fan from Jake Wright . |
| 19 | We approach this by considering the elementary operations which are commonly used in the condensation of determinants . |
| 20 | All kinds of information informs my attitudes , but I need to verify this by inspecting the real thing very carefully . |
| 21 | We have supported this by increasing the public funding of the arts , by 60 per cent in real terms since 1979 , and introducing new incentives to personal giving . |
| 22 | I can dramatize this by discussing the one time when I did try to aim for a distant target . |
| 23 | I would advise the interested enthusiast to purchase the smaller set that includes the skew chisel C17 , and try those before going the whole hog . |
| 24 | Multiply by the complex you get again , and work the Z square that 's pretty hard to multiply M , I , square minus one , do that by changing the imaginary , and multiply by , then you get an answer . |
| 25 | We did this by getting the smaller ones through the higher hole and the larger ones through the middle and lower parts . |
| 26 | They did this by adopting the Jamaican music which the black communities in South East London had brought from their homeland and which was the popular music of the Rude Boys . |
| 27 | They do this by tapping the vast resource of surplus old and new books in the UK . |
| 28 | They do this by examining the traditional psychology of sex differences , and the traditional psychology of women . |
| 29 | Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens . |
| 30 | Any sceptic can prove this by drawing the famous ley running south from Stonehenge through Old Sarum , Salisbury Cathedral , Clearbury Ring and Frankenbury Camp ( Figure 1 ) . |