Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 2 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 3 | Bracing the right side gives you the only opportunity to use the left side to start the forward swing smoothly and efficiently . |
| 4 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 5 | East Germany 's ringing endorsement of his plan for speedy German unity makes him the strongest contender to lead the strongest power in non-communist Europe . |
| 6 | This masterpiece gives us the classical moment of the archaic style . |
| 7 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 8 | Brown ‘ boiled-up cow ’ type glue is holding the all-solid construction together remarkably well , and the high action makes it the perfect instrument for playing bottleneck and slide blues . |
| 9 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 10 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 11 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 12 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 13 | However , significant resources are also being made available by the private sector where there is no immediate commercial gain : thus IBM UK Ltd has donated £3.5m. of computing equipment to UNEP and IBM in general is actively supporting other R&D which can be expected to facilitate ‘ sustainable development ’ : IBM Europe , for instance , has invested $16m. in its Bergen scientific centre to make it the focal point for the company 's environmental modelling and a centre for information on the environment and sustainable development . |
| 14 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 15 | Some critics called him the new Tennyson , and he had a collection of unpublished works with him on the plane which crashed into a mountain , just eight miles from Kathmandu . |
| 16 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 17 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 18 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 19 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 20 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 21 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 22 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 23 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 24 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 25 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 26 | The Royal Horticultural Society awarded her the Banksian medal in 1906 . |
| 27 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 28 | But North West teenagers receive an extra 20p making them the third highest paid in the country . |
| 29 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 30 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |