Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory had been down home in the country all day long , working on some bad debt accounts with Tom Holdfast , so he and Mallachy had taken a couple in the Wellington Park to wash away the nasty taste of commerce . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 3 | There was a growing consensus that sex hygiene teaching held out the best assurance for eliminating vice . |
| 4 | They advocated the promotion of party schools at the guberniia level to speed up the educational attainments of local leaders so that they really could set the tone in political culture in sufficient numbers without having to depend so much on shaky agents . |
| 5 | Out of the window the setting sun lit up the perfect whiteness of the Caucasus mountains ; a party of Austrian holidaymakers was down there somewhere , getting in some good skiing . |
| 6 | Nationally the 1957 Rent Act fulfilled neither the stated objectives of the government nor the fears expressed by the opposition . |
| 7 | The silver ball sped up the slight incline lighting up the Bakelite mushrooms as it struck them , ricocheting back and forwards , up and down , before vanishing down the hole in the corner . |
| 8 | Her figure-hugging topaz velvet suit brought out the tawny lights in her brown eyes . |
| 9 | Once back on the ground the ambulance service took over the medical side of the operation . |
| 10 | Hang the door within the aluminium frame using only the two outer screws in each hinge . |
| 11 | Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 . |
| 12 | The present project constitutes a pilot study after which it is hoped to set up a longer term project to follow up the initial findings . |
| 13 | Additional economic corrective measures , announced on Nov. 4 , to reverse serious economic decline included ( i ) a new tariff structure to open up the protected domestic markets to cheaper imports in order to boost domestic consumer demand ; ( ii ) a promise to reform inefficient ports and customs services ; ( iii ) an anti-monopoly decree ; ( iv ) the privatization of selected state companies ; ( v ) the freeing of the exchange rate ; and ( vi ) a sweeping reform of the tax structure [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 14 | Although more recent documents have been produced , a study of the main political parties ' policies on tax , the social security system and poverty during the 1987 General Election campaign summarises clearly the different strands of opinion expressed during the 1980s . |
| 15 | A sudden and unprecedented demand for a large number of new executives to accommodate and take full advantage of this growth coincided with a need for technical experts at management level to develop further the new products and technologies stimulated by the demands of war . |
| 16 | So the project was expanded to include building an expert system for another , similar circuit board using exactly the same technique . |
| 17 | These can actually be a very good source of low cost resistors , capacitors , diodes , etc. , but only if you know what you are doing , and you have the necessary test equipment to sort out the good components from the ‘ duds ’ . |
| 18 | ALEXANDRE NADOBENKO of the Kazakhstan team powered up the cobbled William Brown Street for victory at the end of the 116-miles 10th stage of the 1,150-mile Milk Race from Sheffield to Liverpool yesterday . |
| 19 | The ghosts of Bannockburn walked abroad , as Scotland 's rugby team brought down the much-fancied England XV at Murrayfield by 13–7 and scooped all the prizes from the five-nations international championship . |
| 20 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 21 | In fact , Mr Brown , who lectures in engineering at Longlands College , Middlesbrough , wore a crash helmet to keep out the cold and the noise of the 990cc Matchless motorbike engine while his companion wore a Biggles-type helmet with ear muffs . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , as with the complex issue of land reform , there appeared no evidence that the Aquino government had either the political will or the reserves of public confidence to undertake a programme of comprehensive structural reform . |
| 23 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 24 | The GMB union claimed today the industrial tribunal 's decision revealed double standards . |
| 25 | Business men in my constituency believe that the Maastricht agreement set exactly the right tone for business in the 1990s . |
| 26 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 27 | Used with diesel , alcohols cut crude oil use and help with emissions , yet engine power stays much the same . |
| 28 | ( If the limescale was indeed clumping together , this is what one might expect — a sand filter takes out the finest particles ) . |
| 29 | Just this morning the Home Office showed off the empty premises following a five million pound refit of the former youth custody centre . |
| 30 | But it seems more likely that on this occasion a handful of key politicians and civil servants actually took the lead ; Peter Walker at the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) and Robert Carr , Home Secretary ( the Home Office set up the Urban Deprivation Unit in 1972 ) , were clearly influential , and Derek Morrell was a key official over CDP in the Home Office . |