Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 2 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 3 | He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator . |
| 4 | Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person . |
| 5 | A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening . |
| 6 | The following sortie , on the 14/16th , was to bomb the synthetic oil plant at Merseburg-Leuna , diverting on its return to East Moor in Yorkshire along with other aircraft of the Squadron , returning back to base the following day . |
| 7 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 8 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 9 | When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds . |
| 10 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 11 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 12 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 13 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 14 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 15 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 16 | Unable fully to abreact their responses to the trauma in their still quite limited conscious awareness , and unprepared by evolution for the revolutionary change which had suddenly overtaken them , our distant hominid ancestors dealt with the upheaval in their psychological and social lives in part by repressing it and forcing out of consciousness the irreconcilable conflicts which now occupied their instinctual drives . |
| 17 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 18 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 19 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 20 | Once you come into contact with the other side you can drop down into command the individual tanks and engage in fast armoured conflict — the controls here do take some getting used to , although you can opt to assign either the driving or firing to the computer . |
| 21 | ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield . |
| 22 | Then the drifting cloud that had massed before the rising sun parted , and a single shaft of direct light leaped through the east window , setting the rose tracery ablaze with glowing colours , and flew like a lance from end to end of the church , calling out of shadow the strong , slender ribs that patterned the vault with great starry flowers , turning the roofrib to gold , and glittering in the curls of all the singing cherubim on the painted bosses . |
| 23 | After the cruise , you will fly from Aswan to Cairo and overnight at the Cairo Marriott , flying back to London the following day . |
| 24 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 25 | Crucially , although the impedances between P' 1 , X' and P' 2 are extremely tiny when the bridge is balanced , as soon as it goes out of balance the large primary inductance of the detector transformer comes into play so that the balance condition is very critical and the bridge consequently very sensitive . |
| 26 | As he led the way to the kitchen and put the kettle on , he muttered , ‘ Sounds as though someone got out of bed the wrong … ’ |
| 27 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 28 | Civilians could be brought in to staff the front counter at Darlington police station in order to release three officers for beat duty . |
| 29 | CIVILIANS could be brought in to staff the front counter at Darlington police station , the town 's top officer has revealed . |
| 30 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |