Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flying club and bar offers a friendly greeting and place to pay the small landing fee . |
| 2 | At this they would leave their trades and rush to join the fourteen ‘ seine ’ boats and the fourteen ‘ volyers ’ that followed the seine boats in pursuit of the shoals . |
| 3 | What we are left with is a disagreeable story tinged with Joe Orton 's misogyny and urge to puncture the frail facade of petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 4 | For example : students hear only half of the dialogue on tape and have to supply the missing lines ; students take notes and then give an account of what happened ; students act out what happened from memory ; students answer questions about the dialogue . |
| 5 | Many have all their capital tied up in their homes and have to use the meagre resources of the basic state retirement pension to repair and restore their homes and to pay their heating bills ? |
| 6 | This last amendment would have the effect of removing the deterrent which local authorities will face if they place people in their own homes and have to meet the full cost . |
| 7 | Surely we can not ; we must accept what we have as data and work to make the best of what we have , our environment and our circumstances . |
| 8 | Roll out half the marzipan ( about 350g/12oz ) to a large circle on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour and use to cover the round cake . |
| 9 | The very best product to smooth the cuticle and help mend the split ends is Pure Gloss . |
| 10 | An ancient telephone : Goans take pride in their inheritance and have preserved the unlikeliest of treasures |
| 11 | It is essential that alternative accommodation should be very varied in type and support to give the greatest degree of independence to patients commensurate with their disabilities and to enable adjustments to be made in small steps . |
| 12 | We have discussed the matter of planning conditions with Clwyd County Council and have examined the latest draft ( dated 26th June 1992 ) of these conditions prepared by the council 's officers . |
| 13 | While remaining guarded about the exact type of operation Shadowfax is considering , the partners are currently looking at sites and expect to open the first one within the year . |
| 14 | In Russia , any attempt to refuse this right would immediately aid the bourgeoisie of each nationality and tend to push the local working class into its arms . |
| 15 | But he insisted that there was no alternative if Hungary was to gain the confidence of the international credit institutions and seek to heal the economic crisis . |
| 16 | Those opposed to the hunt have pledged to continue campaigning for a ban and have accused the central committee of fudging the issue . |
| 17 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 18 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 19 | After three days of negotiations , federal and state government leaders overcame party rivalries late on Saturday to agree on new measures to consolidate the budget and help pay the huge costs of German unification . |
| 20 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 21 | It is understood Ford and Jaguar managers soundly backed the efforts of Lawson and Helfet to preserve the traditional Jaguar look in the original design . |
| 22 | These have occurred both within the UK and abroad in the recent period of structural change and have affected the international position of UK manufacturing . |
| 23 | If I select MS-DOS Shell and attempt to delete the unwanted directories , I get the message : ‘ You can not delete a non-empty directory … ’ but according to MS-DOS Shell the specified directory states : ‘ No files match file specifier . ’ |
| 24 | The officers are backed up by four police cars whose job is to try to keep up with the train on nearby roads and help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 25 | The beautiful ones wear ornate regional head-dresses , chime bells and yodel to welcome the New Year , while nature mummers appear in costumes of pine-cones , moss and snail shells . |
| 26 | Recently-hatched dogwhelks ( plate 1b ) are found at the same level as their capsules and seem to prefer the empty cases of barnacles to the shells of living or dead mussels . |
| 27 | They believed the existence of a course would increase local property values and help sell the many building plots on the market during the early years of this century . |
| 28 | Where a clone and probe hybridise the corresponding row-column intersection is shaded depending on the level of hybridisation . |
| 29 | The next piece of the information jigsaw will be the C&P environmental brochure , due out this summer placing the company in an even stronger position to drive home its environmental messages , redress misconceptions and help quench the thirsty world . |
| 30 | Roll out the remaining marzipan to a large thin circle and use to cover the entire semi-circular ‘ lid ’ . |