Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An immediate halt to the Government 's Hospital Trust , sorry I 'm reading the same thing again . |
| 2 | Instead , hesitantly , terribly afraid she was doing the wrong thing , she plucked meanings from the firmament . |
| 3 | Mr. Deputy Speaker : With this we are discussing the following amendments : No. 10 , in page 1 , line 9 , after " Group " ) " , insert " and trade unions ' . |
| 4 | In this he was following the ordinary practice of court officials , who were exceptionally well placed to collect offices in plurality : the first Earl of Pembroke held thirty-eight posts in addition to his place in the Privy Chamber . |
| 5 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 6 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 7 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 8 | ‘ How clever you are to find the perfect English rose of your dreams . |
| 9 | In the second we are describing the spatial distribution of people , not one person : this is the Euler method . |
| 10 | How easy it is to let the seven-days-a-week routine become drudgery , be overwhelmed by work unfinished , and to lose sight of the original aim . |
| 11 | He is convinced he is doing the right thing , despite the disapproval of the church authorities . |
| 12 | So again you might find that that you 're generating the wrong type of integer number . |
| 13 | ‘ First , may I say how glad I was to see the honourable gentleman in the Government lobby last night , ’ Lang said . |
| 14 | ‘ Last time I was this fit I was captaining the under-16s at King 's Lynn Grammar School . ’ |
| 15 | The more efficient you become the more likely you are to retain the rabbiting rights for the future . |
| 16 | How lucky they were to have the English language , for instance , plus the system of law and public administration . |
| 17 | the Kings theatres in towns where by and large they 're showing the same shows |
| 18 | They were much prized for cutting as well as for bedding , and by 1917 they were listing the immaculate white ‘ Purity ’ , to be sown for flowering in pots at Easter . |
| 19 | Those who have tried it know how hard it is to liberate the oppressed . |
| 20 | His voyage was outstanding for his persistence and seamanship and in 1833 he was awarded the royal premium of the Royal Geographical Society . |
| 21 | She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road . |
| 22 | ending the scene as he had begun it , with a soliloquy , how lucky he is to have The naked statement of self-seeking reminds us of Iago , as does the confidence with which he approaches the task — ‘ easy ’ ( ‘ For'tis most easy/Th ’ inclining Desdemona to subdue/In any honest suit' ( Othello , II.iii.332ff. ) ) — and the scorn for those taken in by his traps ( ‘ Thus credulous fools are caught ! ’ |
| 23 | Although some of these may have been cases of a genuine change of religious commitment , in many I was given the strong impression that these were people who had come to the church regularly at the time when they were building their political careers but who had subsequently fallen away and now professed no strong denominational attachment . |
| 24 | I spent about seven weeks there and I felt great inside but it was like I was wearing the wrong slip cover . |
| 25 | Earlier , at the start of the FACE photo shoot , the actor had confided , ‘ I 'm not sure I am doing the right thing . ’ |
| 26 | Also make sure I 'm doing the right thing as well . |
| 27 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 28 | ‘ When I arrived at the river I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing because the water temperature was 4.1 degrees Centigrade and the air temperature was 1.8 degrees , ’ said Les . |
| 29 | I was n't at all sure I was doing the right thing but I got up and started towards him as he finally got the clip to slide into the gun and snick home . |
| 30 | Make sure you 're reading the right one all the time . |