Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 2 | Mammals keep track of this using the pineal gland which also regulates their bodies ' circadian rhythm . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this produces the exact effect they are trying to prevent . |
| 4 | The farm worker , in many respects , has yet to achieve his place in the sun , but he is also less willing to accept the low status which the rest of society seems to offer him . |
| 5 | This dissolves the central paradox which is of the very essence of faith , and turns faith itself into an inheritance rather than a permanent passion of risk , commitment and obedience . |
| 6 | This caused the large man who was marking him to hit him back more overtly . |
| 7 | This prevented the through draught which was valued for winnowing and meant that carts had to back out , so it was a less popular arrangement . |
| 8 | The terrace was cluttered with wooden benches , empty beer crates and a fire escape which half hid the narrow door he meant . |
| 9 | All of this creates the fractured rivalry which has existed during the whole of my service and which has survived attempts by management to ‘ weld the uniform and C.I.D . |
| 10 | This reflects the multiple pathology which is often a feature of older people presenting with specific medical conditions . |
| 11 | This puzzled the earnest Protestant me . |
| 12 | This simplifies the issuing process itself , as well as making it easier to cope with long-term maintenance . |
| 13 | To secure our access to information which will not necessarily be created with the historical community in mind , we must be willing to develop the common ground we share with other scholars and computer-using communities . |
| 14 | I use this to excuse the possible ignorance which my question may make apparent ! |
| 15 | This replaced the original plan whose severity had sparked off street protests in February and March and which had been abandoned in mid-April . |
| 16 | This poses the interesting question which only the future can resolve : how long can values survive without the beliefs which sustain them ? |
| 17 | Do n't be afraid of using a code-driven package if this provides the fine control you need . |
| 18 | This makes the total deflection which for light just grazing the Sun 's limb ( ) is 1.750 arcsec . |
| 19 | In spite of the touches of mystification he employed in many autobiographical references scattered through twenty years of publishing , it is possible to detect the complicated temperament he had inherited . |
| 20 | In 1355 Edward III appointed the Black Prince his Lieutenant in Aquitaine , and the prince took a small force there in the autumn of that year . |
| 21 | It 's impossible to overstate the economic relationship we now have with Europe . |
| 22 | I ate at the Corner House , very little , as it was not easy to pay the modest sum my landlady in Southwark , Mrs William Vitou , whose husband was a dental mechanic trained in Guy 's hospital , charged me , and eat a great deal apart from breakfast and a high tea . |
| 23 | ‘ I could n't think of anyone nicer to have the new job she 's been given . |
| 24 | Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war . |
| 25 | On other occasions they occupy respective quarters of a pavement ( in which case there will be not one but four pairs ) each surrounding the central medallion which is then subsidiary . |
| 26 | Ministers are also likely to emphasise the industrial muscle which will be created by the merger of three public sector unions — Nupe , Nalgo and Cohse . |
| 27 | Mr Wood commented : ‘ After many months of being in one of the lower positions it is gratifying to see the improved collection which , I hope , will be continued in both the old and new taxes . ’ |
| 28 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
| 29 | As the lower dome is too large to fill the square space it is cut off in vertical planes formed by the four walls of the square . |
| 30 | Opponents of the party leader say his criticism of the pre-meeting comments to the press as disloyal increased the political temperature which exploded when he pointed out to three executive members that collective responsibility had worked in their favour in past occasions and any comments should be made in private . |