Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , the fair-minded British tend to side with the underdog . |
| 2 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 3 | Some suggest tinkering with the tax system : raise the ceiling for tax-free earnings , or boost the earned-income tax credit for low-earners . |
| 4 | Some stop to talk to the hunger strikers . |
| 5 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 6 | The control movements needed to achieve this vary according to the configuration of the undercarriage . |
| 7 | There was the son of a Dallas police officer who held a press conference last autumn to ‘ confess ’ that his dead father was the ‘ second gunman ’ some believe fired at the president from a grassy knoll . |
| 8 | Many pointedly refer to themselves as ‘ Königsberger ’ and few feel threatened by the influx of German tourists and money into the region . |
| 9 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 10 | Sea fishing is also taken up by many some prefer to fish from the beach and others prefer to fish from a boat . |
| 11 | ‘ Some need turning in the night , particularly those with muscular dystrophy , ’ says nurse Lou Major . |
| 12 | – Some have to do with the child 's temperament ; others relate to parents ' physical and emotional resources and , of course , their methods of discipline ( or lack of them ! ) . |
| 13 | Some have seen in the clash between Antigone and Creon a parable of the demands of individual conscience against social imperatives , others in the encounter between Ismene and her sister a dramatisation of the need to temper conviction lest it degenerate into fanaticism . |
| 14 | In the past some have jeered at the burial procedure . |
| 15 | We 've had hundreds of cards and letters for our special Pick the Manager Competition … some fans have been giving it plenty of thought … some have taken to the drawing board … |
| 16 | The Japanese have advanced in the face of claims by many observers that they are poor at developing software — the instructions that make computers operate . |
| 17 | Chapters 6 and 7 have looked at the way that books can be evaluated , and at the sources for evaluation . |
| 18 | These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls . |
| 19 | Hitler 's assault in the summer of 1940 put paid to the agitation for peace negotiations . |
| 20 | Today many of these lie submerged by the sea , for the land is flat and the sea has encroached all round the coast . |
| 21 | The law as a profession is regarded as a difficult one for hearing people , and not many manage to become solicitors ; still fewer get called before the Bar to become barristers . |
| 22 | It is important that a long-net should be set completely clear of sticks and brambles for if these become entangled within the net it can not function properly . |
| 23 | The majority of these become arrested in the abomasum as EL4 and do not complete development until the following spring . |
| 24 | Riots , staff unrest , the malaise in the probation service and the political problems caused by the penal system are not the direct results of a high prison population or a lack of money or of decent prison buildings ( although these do contribute to the crisis ) , but result from what people believe and how they feel — from the moral reactions of people within and outside the penal system to the material situation . |
| 25 | These do occur on the farmland , too , but not in such numbers and they 're much more difficult to see there . |
| 26 | These fail to grapple with the shifting and kaleidoscopic nature of ethnic differentiations and identities and their relation to internal divisions of class and gender . |
| 27 | These include calling in the fire brigade at the first sign of what they quaintly call ‘ smouldering in senile machinery ’ and ejecting all the customers forthwith , and not opening stations if the required number of staff ( two on the smaller stations ) have failed to turn up . |
| 28 | A further series of ‘ county ’ books is that devoted to ‘ The Making of the English Landscape ’ , of which more than a dozen have appeared under the Hodder & Stoughton imprint . |
| 29 | Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features . |
| 30 | Hydrangeas are very good , but these have to come from the corporation nurseries as it is too early for outdoor ones . |