Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the Generalísimo 's unprecedented attentions to the visitor were no more , but also no less , than a lavish propaganda exercise designed as a show of political strength to conceal or shore up the underlying economic weakness and isolation of the regime . |
| 2 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |
| 3 | If the child is behaving well or playing quietly the typical parental attitude is ‘ let sleeping dogs lie ’ . |
| 4 | In his free time he was happy to watch cartoons and videos on TV or wander around the various royal apartments , chatting to kitchen staff or watching Diana perform her ballet exercises at Kensington Palace . |
| 5 | Yet the Discovery has a classy , Conran-designed interior , excellent seats and ride-comfort and a wonderful , rumbling V8 engine that emits just the same blue-blooded burble as a Range Rover . |
| 6 | At 0300 hours on 30 June 1989 , 1st Battalion the Royal Scots found itself deployed into hides , along with the attached tanks , artillery and engineers that make up the Royal Scots battle group . |
| 7 | I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ? |
| 8 | Rick Bateysifts through the veritable medley of classic influences that make up the latest sepia-tinted offering from Chandler in San Francisco … |
| 9 | The bass cut which this control provides has the effect of removing some of the boxiness that clutters up the lower mid-range at high volumes . |
| 10 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 11 | It then gives the process a stamp of its own by running league tables within the group that show how the various subsidiary banks are performing against each target . |
| 12 | At the Labour Party Conference of 1957 , it was generally accepted that to give up the independent nuclear deterrent would disable a future Labour government from pursuing a foreign policy not approved by Washington . |
| 13 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 14 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 15 | To do this , it is first necessary to see if it is possible to agree on what the crucial principles are that characterise both the original biological positivists and the proposed wider category . |
| 16 | This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency . |
| 17 | It seems to be referring to a document that that that sets out the whole total quality process as far as the commission is concerned . |
| 18 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 19 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs Gillingham , ’ she said in a voice that carried only the faintest Italian accent , ‘ how very good of you to come and stay with me . ’ |
| 21 | Both originated in a split in the nationalist movement of the early 1920s about the acceptability of the 1921 treaty with Britain that set up the Irish Free State . |
| 22 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 23 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 24 | We say " the same man " and mean numerically the same human person ; and we say " the same colour " and mean a quality that can be possessed or exemplified by different individuals . |
| 25 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 26 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 27 | Go back to the case and review critically the main characteristic symptoms eliminating those that are not strong , are vague , have perhaps only occurred once or twice and are not really important features of the illness . |
| 28 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 29 | I could then walk much faster and push up the average daily mileage . |
| 30 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |