Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking round for somewhere to hide the wrecked toy she climbed on to a chair and put the doll on top of the nursery cupboard . |
| 2 | Communist influence in the ILP was growing and although the ILP leadership remained hostile to Communism , there seemed to be opportunities for greatly expanding the Communist Party at the expense of the older and larger party . |
| 3 | The area of most impact potential for KBS 's is in on-line ATE testing which has the potential for greatly reducing the overall number of testing steps , thus reducing testing time , and offering more refined fault isolation help to the user . |
| 4 | As shown in Figure 2.13 , these range from trivial ones such as merely copying the first operand to the more useful ones discussed above . |
| 5 | The multimedia hardware industry has for long recognised the vital importance of these tools . |
| 6 | After successfully completing the academic stage [ law degree , CPE or Diploma in Law ] and the Legal Practice Course you then have to undertake a two year training contract which will enable you to put into practice the knowledge and skills that you have learnt . |
| 7 | The new Vigilant lost no time in making her mark when in June 1966 the Queen , after formally opening the new east wing of the London Custom House ( restored after wartime bombing ) embarked on the Vigilant at Custom House Quay for the short journey to Westminster Pier . |
| 8 | After narrowly losing the 1784 by-election , Hotham visited Sussex , where he embarked upon the ambitious scheme of transforming the fishing hamlet of Bognor into the select watering-place of ‘ Hothamton ’ . |
| 9 | She is understood to have become ill at a party after unknowingly taking the illegal drug . |
| 10 | Better to lose face and be open about not understanding the cryptic message , than to lose sleep at night over it . |
| 11 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 12 | For best results the main subject should be subdivided on the print-out into smaller subject fields . |
| 13 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 14 | In saying these things one is , of course , not ‘ blaming ’ Jesus — any more than one is blaming , as individuals , any of his contemporaries for not comprehending the ethical necessity of human equality . |
| 15 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 16 | The factors relevant to the giving of reasons by the Parole Board or a local review committee are not the same as those relevant to the Secretary of State 's giving reasons for not accepting the judicial view of the tariff . |
| 17 | The seller is compensated for not receiving the next coupon payment by receiving accrued interest instead . |
| 18 | You can just about excuse Porsche for not altering the external shape , but forgiveness is impossible when it concerns the interior . |
| 19 | For not having the obsessive singlemindedness — the bloody-minded selfishness — which permits a few male artists to be geniuses . |
| 20 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 21 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 22 | Well fair enough we criticize referees often enough for perhaps harshly sending players off I suppose we should compliment Mr Kirby for not showing the red card there . |
| 23 | There was no warrant for not following the ample precedent for the proposition that mere delay which gave rise to prejudice and unfairness could by itself amount to an abuse of the process . |
| 24 | In 1908 George Lansbury admonished working class men for not practising the economic equality at home that they preached in public , and noted that men who gave their wives 10/ to 12/ out of 30/ to 35/ felt that they had done enough . |
| 25 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 26 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
| 27 | Assistant Recorder Mr. John Wardlow stopped the trial on the second day of the hearing and directed the jury to acquit Philip O'Connell of indecently assaulting the 19-year-old woman and causing her actual bodily harm . |
| 28 | The young man was found not guilty of indecently assaulting the 16-year-old schoolgirl by the jury after a three-hour retirement . |
| 29 | Alternative vehicles for getting nicotine into the bloodstream skin patches , chewing gum and a recently-developed nasal spray — triple your chances of successfully kicking the smoking habit . |
| 30 | Are they a means of merely reapportioning the existing cake ? |