Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 What is the smallest number that can be divided by 1 8 or 30 and leave the remainder 5 ? |
| 2 | Scott seemed satisfied by this and slipped the magazine free from his own pistol , jamming in the full one he 'd taken from Hitch 's Beretta . |
| 3 | We have suggested a variety of breakfasts to keep the menus interesting and to demonstrate the variety possible on this diet . |
| 4 | This change-over was completed in April 1988 and all McDonald 's foam packaging produced in the UK is now CFC free and carries the CFC FREE message , reassuring customers of this change . |
| 5 | ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day . |
| 6 | It is something different and playing the game these days when everything is so fast , anything slightly different and unorthodox is good . ’ |
| 7 | He put the home side on their way with an excellent goal in the first half , had what looked like a perfectly good effort ruled out in the second and caused the Latvians all sorts of problems with his well timed runs from deep . |
| 8 | Intracommodity spreads involve different contracts of the same future , for example selling the December 1989 future and buying the March 1990 future in the FT-SE 100 index on LIFFE . |
| 9 | Police heard their dying screams because his eight-year-old daughter Clare had dialled 999 and left the line open . |
| 10 | Test out a small piece first to check that your choice of thread colour is right and to get the tension correct . |
| 11 | added : ‘ This new campaign therefore draws employers ’ attention to their responsibility for assessing the potential problems , avoiding them where possible and making the workforce aware of how to approach manual handling tasks . |
| 12 | The secret is to be as quick as possible and to keep the animal warm afterwards . |
| 13 | Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid . |
| 14 | Steve Denny says he 's supposed to sell 450 barrels a year but has only managed 306 and owes the brewery 4,000 pounds . |
| 15 | Ariana 's board includes Bernard Giroud who started Intel France in 1971 and left the company last year a corporate vice president to become a venture capitalist , Gerard Yon , formerly sales and marketing manager of Chorus Systemes , the microkernel house , and now president of VST , a French start-up in electronic document management , and Pascal LeVasseur , technical director of Dell France . |
| 16 | Since u 2 becomes non-basic after pivoting , we drop the x 2 -row and substitute the x 1 -row ( pivot row in P2/T3 ) to get P2/T4 . |
| 17 | Can you climb two or three flights of stairs , reasonably fast and taking the steps two at a time , and not end up breathless ? |
| 18 | I rose , broke my fast and slipped the landlord some pieces of silver which made his vinegarish face look more congenial and subservient . |
| 19 | To illustrate , if an individual buys 10 ST3 contracts at 90.50 and closes the position 20 days later with a reversing sale of 10 contracts at 90.55 , the profit is , where the number of ticks gain is 5 ( i.e. ( 90.55 — 90.50 ) /0.01 , where 0.01 is the tick size ) . |
| 20 | 8 Instead of multiplying a number by 98 , Julie multiplied it by 89 and got the answer 23,585 . |
| 21 | Lendl , who won his third successive Open title in 1987 , retired against Australian qualifier Neil Borwick while trailing 4-6 6-4 3-1 and became the record fifth men 's seed to lose in the first round this year . |
| 22 | The Lukac brothers spearheaded a second-period revival to take their team to 8-6 at the end of the second but Hawks managed to take the final period 3-1 and tie the game 9-9 . |
| 23 | She was freezing and keeping the fire low to save money . |
| 24 | Tending , therefore , involves a transaction between carer and cared for , which has powerful emotional undertones , varying in kind and in intensity , but which are always present and affect the way physical care is offered . |
| 25 | He attended a meeting at Lund in Sweden in 1952 and thought the atmosphere happy but the meeting useless and wondered whether the day of such occasions was not past . |
| 26 | The 8.18% rise was the highest since April 1992 and took the overall 1992 new car sales total to 1,406,796just 1.86% down on 1991 . |
| 27 | He 'd palm a key and undo the locks that way . ’ |
| 28 | This section is c. 900 feet long and crosses the valley 180 feet above the River Gard . |
| 29 | It was light and clean , and although the parts she was working on were tiny , Anne was neat and dextrous and found the tasks easy . |
| 30 | It would have no effect at all on Aline , who could add two and two faster and get the sum right better than any girl I knew . |