Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible he had any regrets that they were neither of them free to give the undoubted chemistry between them full rein ? |
| 2 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 3 | This would leave them free to ignore the non-statutory takeover code and Stock Exchange listing rules . |
| 4 | One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it was always talking about a Dark Power in the universe — a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease , and sin . |
| 5 | When I first got the macro lens , I tried a whole range of permutations with aperture , shutter speeds , flash angles and camera angles . |
| 6 | I HAVE loved visiting peat bogs ever since , as a sixth-former , I first experienced the wonderful combination of springy surface and spongy sphagnum , glistening red sundews and white bog cotton that they offer . |
| 7 | EVER since I first heard the quirky tones of Walter Winchell narrating Eliot Ness 's adventures in The Untouchables , I 've loved gangster yarns . |
| 8 | ‘ When I first left the Close people were convinced that I was actually still in the series and that obviously had its drawbacks . |
| 9 | William James , for example , dedicated Pragmatism to J. S. Mill ‘ from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader ’ . |
| 10 | I first describe the basic ideas , to bring out the conceptual differences between classical and evolutionary game theory . |
| 11 | In this chapter I first consider the underlying rules for associative learning and suggest that some useful general principles have already been uncovered . |
| 12 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 13 | I was at once interested but I did my best to suppress the instant flicker in my eyes . |
| 14 | The terrace was cluttered with wooden benches , empty beer crates and a fire escape which half hid the narrow door he meant . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the degree to which this entailed the active participation of staff across the curriculum depended upon the quality of liaison and feedback to the committee itself . |
| 16 | The Speaker , Waeta Ben , accepted the government 's claim that , because a motion of no confidence had been moved earlier in 1990 , Parliament could not discuss the issue again until its second meeting the following year . |
| 17 | I hope that , as with some of the other CD singles in this series , the disc is in fact a taster for a well-filled Mason CD : there is a striking recent Double Concerto for Horn and trombone , a strange Horn Trio , and a huge , weird and wonderful String Quartet , which all deserve the repeated hearings the CD medium can provide [ CM ] |
| 18 | His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong . |
| 19 | No meaning attaches , for instance , to the /ei/ vowel in plate , plane , plain , pane , blade , table , etc. , which all contain the semantic trait ‘ flat ’ . |
| 20 | Consider , for example , [ 13 – 16 ] which all involve the so-called apposition marker in other words . |
| 21 | Other highly-regarded Scottish companies were Scottish & Newcastle , second highest rated in the brewing sector , United Biscuits , Low & Bonar , and General Accident which all beat the Scottish average . |
| 22 | Even so , the unions ' power to strike and picket remained substantial ; Tebbit found himself unable to outlaw the closed shop entirely . |
| 23 | In its first act the Constitutional Assembly denounced the use of violence , calling on guerrillas still fighting to renounce armed struggle , and asking the Medellín cartel to release the three remaining journalists they were holding as hostages [ see pp. 37957-58 ] . |
| 24 | There were a number of preconditions for the advent of mass owner occupation , which first characterized the inter-war years ( Ball , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Tom was staring at her accusingly , and she wanted to hurry to get the glucose testing kit at once , but on her first stride the numb leg gave way beneath her and she staggered clumsily until she felt his hands steady her with a firm grip on each forearm . |
| 26 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 27 | Neither a simple arousal model nor lapse theory is adequate on its own to explain the complex effects of sleep loss . |
| 28 | Because the Moon has no atmosphere nor any significant magnetic field of its own to deflect the solar wind , it sweeps near the lunar surface . |
| 29 | They provide further evidence that the Reagan administration is doing its best to undermine the traditional position of the US as the leader of world conservation . |
| 30 | The Abingdon contingent will be doing its best to capture the festive spirit . |