Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village was almost deserted : only the old stayed behind — some were too sick or weak or crippled to climb the path to Jimale . |
| 2 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 3 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 4 | Since the only source of energy in the building is electricity , it was this that had to heat the water . |
| 5 | Because the size of potential losses is growing so fast , many insurers now reckon that providing catastrophe cover has simply become too risky and have quit the market . |
| 6 | The feeling that incomers might be a problem necessitates ways in which one can prove this and attempt to ameliorate the situation . |
| 7 | The Thatcher government in the 1980s recognized this and made reducing the PSBR the central feature of its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 8 | We hope that Pat Kennedy will be able to work with us on this and intend to invite the student teachers to participate . |
| 9 | He has already done this and has brought the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 10 | whether they send people on a course , whether they send people on a course because they 're long term unemployed and having finished the course then do n't get a job but they are no longer long term unemployed . |
| 11 | It incorporates a separate fly sheet which can be removed during the day to increase light and help keep the dome cool but he refitted in seconds when night falls . |
| 12 | A few hours ' sleep , and he 'd come up fresh and begin to learn the system around here . |
| 13 | He had got the direction slightly wrong and had passed the dell before he realised it . |
| 14 | After all , they were generous and kept throwing the ball at you — they played the game , but you did n't play back . |
| 15 | The pins are designed to give way under pressure , allowing damaged engines to fall free and avoid wrecking the aircraft . |
| 16 | Despite her ordeal the woman could only think of her boyfriend , but by the time police arrived to free him , he had wriggled free and managed to open the boot from the inside . |
| 17 | Still the rain , all week it had rained , and his coat was barely dried out from the previous evening and his shoes were still wet and had rejected the polish he had attempted over his breakfast . |
| 18 | It 's a little you would you be careful and stop moving the table . |
| 19 | The school librarian , Mr Les Rae , was approached by MEP in December 1985 and asked to pilot the EDLIB Software which had been developed locally . |
| 20 | From 1839 he was engaged in a campaign to improve the quality of seed available by preventing the adulteration then prevalent and trying to test the germination of selected samples . |
| 21 | When he was handed the official document making Sati illegal in December 1829 , he left the preaching to another and hurried to translate the order into Bengali . |
| 22 | Since the identity of the lover — the woman — becomes submerged in the other lover 's desire for her/his body , one of the two may become afraid and want to kill the other . |
| 23 | Mr Vulcan would n't hear of this but offered to send the removal men over with it . |
| 24 | It is indeed deplorable that the Government sets targets for a reduction in smoking but continues to place the responsibility for achieving these on health , education and voluntary sector while avoiding taking the action we consider essential . |
| 25 | The handwriting was adequate but failed to convince the company 's audience of the board 's confidence in these matters . |
| 26 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 27 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
| 28 | It was close enough , and simpler than trying to explain the truth … |
| 29 | We were unaware that having crossed the Webi we were now in Bale . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's sad that having made the assurances in court and accepted that it was n't an acceptable way of doing business , that it turns out that they are still carrying on . ’ |