Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't do things like this unless they have the full knowledge and approval of the Royal Family . ’ |
| 2 | They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B . |
| 3 | He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road . |
| 4 | The latter are especially interesting since they constitute the outer ring of the EEC and also because they have considerably higher standards of living than do the EEC Member States . |
| 5 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1934 , 1962 The Czechoslovaks have only been seen twice in the tournament proper since they reached the 1962 final and on neither occasion were they able to win a match . |
| 6 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 7 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 8 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 9 | But Copernican thinking has already led astray many astronomers who should have known better , and we 'd best be careful when they use the same logic to try to convince us that we and our planet are nothing special . |
| 10 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 11 | These small streams are often fast flowing until they reach the lower elevations of the Low Weald . |
| 12 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 13 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 14 | Russianization was pointless while they kept the lower orders in their place and went on providing generals for the Russian army . |
| 15 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 16 | And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep , cinder path . |
| 17 | Corbett urged him to keep quiet and was more than relieved when they entered the narrow , winding , rutted streets of Leith and made their way to the small market square . |
| 18 | These flaps gradually grew larger until they met the nasal and became a single sheet of metal , with slits to allow vision and holes for breathing . |
| 19 | She said a majority of women had voted Tory since they got the right to vote , but a profound shift was now taking place . |
| 20 | Paula was tense as they approached the German frontier post beyond Echternach in Luxembourg . |
| 21 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 22 | From the nut up is unmistakably PRS , and while one or two people around the office were n't sure if they liked the standard PRS headstock shape on this design I think it looks fine , instantly identifying the instrument . |
| 23 | Two quantities can only be equal if they contain the same powers of space , time and mass . |
| 24 | But then think of Benny coming back from Dublin after a day in the university : would n't it be better if they saved the main meal for her return ? |
| 25 | In the 1920s , the incidents were a little more prosaic — but useful if they gave the patrolling constable something to chuckle over for an hour or two . |
| 26 | Captain Ferzenaar 's observations on the state of Krakatoa in early August , even though made only from a boat keeping to the upwind side , are particularly useful because they provide the last reliable account of the situation before the culminating events which ensued fifteen days later . |
| 27 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 28 | It was late when they reached the great house , but the moon was full , and the night air was warm and still . |
| 29 | The surface was badly pockmarked and the car bumped and bounced over the uneven thoroughfare , its journey only becoming smoother as they reached the main road that would lead them into Chichester itself . |
| 30 | Margaret had to be anaesthetised for the birth , and she was hardly well when they sent the two of them home . |