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 | 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 | He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 11 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 12 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 17 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 18 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 24 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 30 | We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience . |