Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] 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 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 12 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 13 | The first sailing from the port after midnight on the New Year was taken as the official start of the Single Market ; the first piece of freight on board was actually an unidentified light van and trailer — the driver no doubt blissfully unaware that he had made history — which , along with several vehicles turning round from the inbound convoy , sneaked back on board the 01.00 return sailing of the Pride of Kent while the official welcoming party was still in progress at the other end of the port . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | What languages did they draw on to fracture the earlier consensus and what historical forces enabled them to orchestrate their campaign as a national protest ? |
| 19 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 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 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 … ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Does he agree that the most effective action that could be taken to end homelessness would be if Labour-controlled London councils brought back into use the many thousands of empty homes under their control ? |
| 28 | During the winter months the tubers of tropical waterlilies can be stored in damp sand well away from frost and can be brought back into growth the following year — but it does pay to check them at regular intervals . |
| 29 | McFarlane , having spelled out with caution the Israeli arguments and the Iranian blandishments , admitted that ‘ the concept raises a number of imponderable questions ’ , including ‘ where this might lead in terms of our being asked to up the ante on more and more arms and where that could conceivably lead … |
| 30 | But since the Vietnamese Zone of Peace and Stability has won little support they have been reluctant to reject out of hand the ZOPFAN proposal if this eventually could provide the basis of a long-term settlement of the disputes between Indo-China and the ASEAN states and encourage a military disengagement of the ASEAN states from the West . |