Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you rarely stretch the G 's exceptional 2.9-ton towing limit , or test the new drivetrain which keeps you mobile even if only one wheel has any grip , at least you can savour the high , commanding view every time you slip behind the wheel . |
| 2 | Article 5 of the convention makes it quite clear that a contracting state such as Libya must either extradite an alleged offender , or prosecute the alleged offender itself . |
| 3 | In other words people move in and out of dependent states ( just as younger people do ) and the help they receive can either enforce dependency permanently or provide the temporary support they need to recover . |
| 4 | Every P-40 has a unique set of teeth and those teeth make or break the fearsome look which sets this fighter apart . |
| 5 | What 's more important getting that level and putting that right or getting the bottom level which to me would be more important |
| 6 | This will necessitate a visit to the local newsagent for the papers and you will have to ask your new next door neighbour if she or he can give a note to the milkman for you or contact the local dairy yourself . |
| 7 | Cruise to the picturesque bay and village of Lindos or try the fun cruise which includes champagne diving , disco and crazy donkey rides ! |
| 8 | If demand is greater we can either book another bus or use the mini bus which will seat another 15 . |
| 9 | Either buy ‘ presensitised ’ copper-clad board , or apply the light-sensitive coating yourself . |
| 10 | In brief , if schematic knowledge is in short supply on a particular occasion , then the more we need to invoke systemic knowledge as a means of compensating for the deficiency and if we are thereby able to convert symbol to index , then the act of meaning negotiation itself has the effect of extending or altering the schematic knowledge we started with . |
| 11 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 12 | In no sense was the new para-professional a threat to teachers , therefore , nor did he detract from or erode the professional autonomy which British teachers enjoy . |
| 13 | Maria did n't need to look at his face or see the confident way he carried himself as he stepped out of the lift with her . |
| 14 | Adoption — having gathered information and tested it out , the purchaser either continues to buy the product ( 'repeat purchase' ) in the case of less expensive goods , or makes the single purchase which the producer of the product intends . |
| 15 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 16 | This warranty does no more ( really ) than repeat the statutory duty which a company already has to keep it books and records in good order . |
| 17 | Light could cause Cr(CO) 6 to lose a carbon monoxide molecule , forming a reactive fragment that grabs the next molecule it bumps into . |
| 18 | ‘ The centre is a splendid facility that allows the existing businessperson who wants to grow all the possible advice he or she may need , ’ said Sir Terence . |
| 19 | If there is one thing more disagreeable than removing the bovine afterbirth it is watching somebody else doing it , and I always try to maintain a conversation as I grope around inside . |
| 20 | For another industry that followed the same path one has to look no further than the world 's steel industry . |
| 21 | But although the name Roath is an ancient one — it means , in Irish , the forest and therefore dates back to a time when Welsh was borrowing words from Irish , around the 5th century — there was little that surrounded the young Cottle which was in fact medieval . |
| 22 | She lifted the towel that covered the big bowl we use for making bread . |
| 23 | Amis writes here , as he has written in other books , about the distance between men and women ; here , too , is the trouble that awaits the rational hedonist who deceives the woman he lives with and loves . |
| 24 | In perhaps one of the most shocking hypotheses ever put forward in the drama , Genet suggests that the only thing that distinguishes the sexual pervert who masquerades as priest , king , or hero from his legitimate social counterpart , is a certain timidity . |
| 25 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 26 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 27 | And one hymn writer puts it , he says Eden 's painful memories tell of blessings lost t was there that fell the beauteous crown I wore , but calvary 's glorious victory , a richer crown has won for me . |
| 28 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
| 29 | Eventually it plans to launch a high-tech home-shopping service that combines the personal service it is famed for with the convenience of a catalogue . |
| 30 | It is this that explains the sharp opposition which developed between the two contrasting attitudes , and the antithesis that came to be sharply drawn between ‘ reason ’ and ‘ authority ’ . |