Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 2 | The man had his back to her until he stopped to lift up the smaller of the two girls . |
| 3 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 4 | It was a childhood rich in the family traditions of Judaism , one that was made to feel all the more in need of protection , thanks to the brutality against them and their people in Europe . |
| 5 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |
| 6 | I do n't think he was fitted for the job as it seemed to bring out the worst in him and his language used to become very picturesque . |
| 7 | tyme out of mynde , when any deere of the said forrest … have commen into the said manor of Hackness … the Rangers , and other officers of the said forrest … have always used to fetch out the same with their houndes and to rechase them into the said Forrest . |
| 8 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 9 | By not giving this to Athena , the Athenians were tactfully declining to cream off the best for the national goddess , thereby showing that all tribute that was collected was needed for utilitarian purposes . |
| 10 | If people know we met because my parents fostered you when you were a teenager , they are n't going to think any the less of you , ’ she said , her voice gentle because this was an old hang-up , one which her family had spent years trying to dispel . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not sure why , but you invariably seem to bring out the worst in me … ’ |
| 12 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 13 | Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work . |
| 14 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 15 | Frau Trauffer and her daughter began to bring in the first of six bountiful courses . |
| 16 | Of course , you do n't have to set up the JMP-1 through a regular stage rack . |
| 17 | TAPPA ZUKIE 'S label always seems to bring out the best in Dennis Brown , and this gentle lilt through the miseries of ghetto life is Dennis ' best for a while . |
| 18 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 19 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 20 | Occasionally the Imperial forces try to clear out the worst of these foes , but the area remains wild and dangerous . |
| 21 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 22 | An internal well-maintained will tend to suck out the worst of the loose detritus before it clogs the undergravel . |
| 23 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |
| 24 | But there 's enough left to discombobulate even the biggest of predictive computers . ’ |
| 25 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |