Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 2 | As the aim of investigating terraces is to determine as accurately as possible former base levels , the back of marine terraces ( E on Fig. 9.18 ) should be measured as this approximates to the former high tide level , but the front of river terraces ( F on Fig. 9.18 ) is the closest approximation to the level of the centre of the old valley floor which was graded to high tide level . |
| 3 | Two people can hear the same news report , yet one ‘ hears ’ that the world is full of conflict and hatred , and another hears of the many global efforts towards love , peace and harmony . |
| 4 | They are very few compared with the many thousands of monochrome illustrations which appear each year . |
| 5 | This slips on the same two needles for 16 rows , producing a deep , sculptured fabric . |
| 6 | They therefore have much more freedom and scope for accommodation , and are much less likely to conform to the same fixed pattern . |
| 7 | Chastened , Wycliffe turned to his memo : ‘ Bullet and cartridge case submitted August 7th : Preliminary examination suggests that these belong to the same round and that the bullet was fired from a self-loading pistol of 7.65mm calibre ( .32 auto . |
| 8 | Some scholars think that all three belong to the same basic source , or at the very least two sources . |
| 9 | Toyota Genuine Replacement Parts are all made to the same exacting standards as those fitted to your car from new . |
| 10 | But people will probably only all co-operate when they are all threatened by the same external |
| 11 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 12 | One way to deal with this is to express each result from an individual as a percentage of the mean value for that person ; in this way , all vary about the same mean value of 100 per cent . |
| 13 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 14 | As has been pointed out already , the use of a standard interface means that packages will all work in the same basic way . |
| 15 | Because all snail genes have an equal stake in every sperm and every egg , because they all participate in the same unpartisan meiosis , they work together for the common good , and therefore tend to make the snail body a coherent , purposeful vehicle . |
| 16 | I think we have to remember that that that these Anthems are all played by the same military band , and therefore they 're played in a western style . |
| 17 | The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea . |
| 18 | Therefore within the lexicon run , runs , running , ran each have the same ROOT-INDEX stored ( 19590 ) to indicate that they are all derived from the same morphological root . |
| 19 | Dishwashing etc. machines : Despite being used for a variety of functions , including cleaning crockery , bottles , trays , crates and numerous other items , these machines all operate on the same general principle . |
| 20 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 21 | Each of these forms , or intensities , can be given a separate name , but they all belong to the same basic message : ‘ Clear off , or I will attack you . ’ |
| 22 | Flies such as these breed in decaying plant and animal refuse , and your ones probably all emerged from the same rotten potato . |
| 23 | Yet the cases which fail to set up trusts all fail for the same good reason : because they do not make clear an intention on the part of the settlor that a trustee should be legally obliged to a beneficiary . |
| 24 | Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as , naturally , they are all working towards the same ideal . |
| 25 | This means that when they watch another group 's work they are affected by what they do , they 're all working within the same fictional context . |
| 26 | In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) . |
| 27 | A more valid comparison would be between Black and White arrest rates of those living in the same small areas , because their living circumstances are more likely to be similar , as is their policing . |
| 28 | Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough . |
| 29 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 30 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |