Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 2 | Make sure that everyone writes down the five you agree on . |
| 3 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 4 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 5 | 6.5 An interesting result of testing the possibilities of occurrence with an indefinite head is that it brings out the doubtful validity of certain other cases which Bolinger cites ( and which one might have regarded suspiciously on purely intuitive grounds anyway ) . |
| 6 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 7 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 8 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 9 | ‘ People are playing with fire if they contemplate the Government will just be defeated on Wednesday and everything settles down the following day . |
| 10 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 11 | Hits it so low , he knocks it off and he comes down the wrong way and lands on top of us . |
| 12 | And it comes out the other yes . |
| 13 | And it comes out the same . |
| 14 | So you 're okay with that , ten take away A minus , ten take away A add B will be ten take away A and then take away B. But if we do ten take away like we 've been doing here , A minus B and it comes out the same as this , it 'll be ten take away plus A , just take away A , and then take away minus B. Well taking away a minus B is the same as adding B. Erm do you remember the table ? |
| 15 | DEC wo n't get cozy with COSE until it sorts out the all-important ‘ process ’ of how things work and get selected , something COSE is believed to be finalising . |
| 16 | DEC wo n't get cozy with COSE until it sorts out the all-important ‘ process ’ of how things work and get selected , something COSE is believed to be finalising . |
| 17 | For belief in God , they would argue , is a very practical matter which is not given up lightly , particularly if it brings out the best in the believer : ‘ Belief or unbelief / Bears upon life , determines its whole course … |
| 18 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 19 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 20 | It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility . |
| 21 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |
| 22 | Insulation is important since it keeps out the hot ambient kitchen air , reducing the load on the refrigeration system . |
| 23 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 25 | Her manner and her uniform will secure the patient 's trust as she carries out the necessary investigations , while her understanding of the aims of the study will ensure that she can offer the research team more than columns of figures . |
| 26 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 27 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 28 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 29 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 30 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |