Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [conj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around us were mountains ; they were often half-smothered in cloud , but in the evenings this lifted and then the crests loomed over us , rain-washed , clear-cut and splendid . |
| 2 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |
| 3 | To use a common denigrating quote of a ‘ PR job ’ , this implies that somehow the truth is being hidden behind a glossy or false facade . |
| 4 | It will be irresponsible to allow this to happen and therefore the company will maintain normal port services irrespective of any union ballot . |
| 5 | This suggests that either the K + channel bearing cells were overgrown by other cell types when true confluency was achieved , or confluency was associated with full polarisation of the cells and mvoement of K + channels to the basolateral membrane , which was inaccessible to the patch pipette . |
| 6 | It is sad to report that neither the Transport Department nor the Environment Department ( they made a joint decision in favour of the trench on the grounds of cost ) made any attempt to value Twyford Down , its inhabitants and the enjoyment gained now and in the future from them . |
| 7 | Here the ‘ cut and paste ’ method of working was just as easy to use and so the program 's sales began to mushroom . |
| 8 | the rules were not to do that , the ships were n't supposed to stop because apparently the submarines sometimes lurked there |
| 9 | To its credit , however , it 's initially simpler to use than both the Carvin and the Marshall . |
| 10 | And when the sun appeared they all died and then the people who were to be the people of Amantani came from other islands , from peninsulas in the south … ’ |
| 11 | I mean , we all knew that only the Lorrimores ’ car was behind the dome car . |
| 12 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 13 | As from April 1993 , even more flexibility will be allowed with couples able to choose whether all the tax relief should go to one partner ( husband or wife ) or whether to split it on a 50–50 basis . |
| 14 | Nitrite is also extremely poisonous to fish and hence the reason it is very important to check the pond water for the presence of either of these toxins . |
| 15 | The survey results tabulated in section 9 of Appendix 1 suggest that even the minority who do try and balance the figures in this way ( that is , the one in five who are at least theoretical ‘ rational choosers ’ ) may sometimes be swayed by an entirely random factor — the order in which they become aware of the various different sets of cost figures . |
| 16 | In the top-down approach to indexing , the semantic net is first elaborated and then the paragraphs are indexed . |
| 17 | There was approximately thirty pupils attended the school when I first started but now the number has dropped to twenty three children . |
| 18 | They will have very much more money available to lend than either the Co-op Bank or Girobank . |
| 19 | In the family proceedings court s69(1) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 stipulates that only the following may be present : ( i ) officers of the court ; ( ii ) the parties , their solicitors and counsel , witnesses and others directly concerned in the case ; ( iii ) representatives of the press ; ( iv ) any person given permission by the court , eg trainee social workers , researchers etc . |
| 20 | That means that both the nature and the significance of the test must be explained to you beforehand , in a way which you can understand . |
| 21 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 22 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 23 | They can be more difficult to manage than even the United States Congress . |
| 24 | The press serves it too well for that to happen and so the problems which have taxed the left for so many years will continue to haunt it in the future . |
| 25 | Such a feature should always have somewhere positive to go and here the path leads one on with a genuine air of anticipation . |
| 26 | The Court was entitled to see whether all the conditions necessary to the formation of a proper contract had been satisfied . |
| 27 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 28 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |