Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This chapter begins by considering the circumstances that brought about the so-called imperial presidency . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I could then walk much faster and push up the average daily mileage . |
| 17 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 18 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 19 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 20 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 21 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 22 | Or maybe he had seen the onset of labour in the way she had acted earlier , when he and Kāli untwisted the bales of hay for the night and spread out the fresh pine-needle bedding . |
| 23 | She re-read his covering note again , picking up and turning over the other enclosed letter in her hands . |
| 24 | She started in the bathroom , where she washed down years of dust from walls and ceiling , scoured the toilet so that it sparkled , and dug out the thick dusty webs behind the pipes and wash-basin , disturbing a colony of frantic spiders . |
| 25 | Now several people in the audience were on their feet and waving in an attempt to attract the attention of Gerrard , who left the dais and walked up the narrow central aisle , holding a hand microphone high in the air . |
| 26 | She went to the Underground , sat on the train planning what she was going to do , and walked up the big rich tree-lined road where Theresa and Anthony had their home . |
| 27 | She rubbed her cheek against his chest and breathed in the clean male scent of him . |
| 28 | Spurred on by a new hope , she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock . |
| 29 | For westerners this may seem odd : in karate , you will see people in starched white uniforms fighting each other and letting out the odd blood-curdling scream . |
| 30 | The structural adjustment policies of the government , designed to reduce the budget deficit and the country 's debt and to build up the depleted foreign exchange reserves were supported by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |