Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] 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 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 5 | If your psychoanalysis is reports , and not just the actions , of it can be a , used as arguments to er , allow this story to emphasise what the human ages evolved at specific suicide of men , erm , goes on to show examples of his erm , he actually claimed to have used this as a sort of process of identification of even fantasizing , in order to try and er demonstrate how er , I think it was Hadrian 's Wall was built , try to identify with engineers and architects who built Hadrian 's Wall , in order to try and work out what the actual function of the wall was . |
| 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 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 15 | Why not let the private sector provide what the public sector can not or will not ? |
| 16 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Royal Horticultural Society awarded her the Banksian medal in 1906 . |
| 19 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 20 | He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " . |
| 21 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 22 | This state-of-the-art shaver has three positions to give you the perfect shave and a trimmer for those with sideburns and/or moustache . |
| 23 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 24 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |
| 25 | This long extract gives one the general flavour of Locke 's discourse , besides illustrating some of his main propositions . |
| 26 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 27 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 28 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 29 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 30 | His extrovert personality made him the ideal host at the company 's restaurants . |