Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knows the kinds of places she likes to work , sleep and eat in , and will instinctively seek out the right type of office , hotel , or restaurant . |
| 2 | Recommendations were made that would eventually phase out the broad gauge . |
| 3 | Do n't entirely rule out the ultimate staging of a joint men 's and women 's event . |
| 4 | ‘ The policy of peaceful coexistence … does not only hold back the revolutionary struggle , but promotes its upsurge … the might of the Soviet Union serves as a decisive obstacle in the way of imperialist plans for unleashing a new world war . ’ |
| 5 | I can only point out the immoral lifestyle that accompanied his profession and the evidence of spiritual deceit . |
| 6 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 7 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 8 | Reports in mid-October suggested , however , that US and United Kingdom investigators still believed that the new evidence did not rule out the original assumption that the attack had been ordered by Iran and Syria in revenge for the accidental shooting down in July 1988 in the Gulf of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes , when 290 people were killed [ see pp. 36169-70 ; 37898 ] . |
| 9 | It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print . |
| 10 | As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers . |
| 11 | Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table . |
| 12 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 13 | Yes , through the gloom she could just make out the dried-up fountain in the middle of it , and , straight ahead , the huge studded doors of a church . |
| 14 | He lifted his head and , in the semi-darkness , she could just make out the wry smile that touched the corners of his mouth . |
| 15 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 16 | I took a few cautious steps forward to where , by craning , I could just make out the ghostly crescent of the beach opposite the pier . |
| 17 | As James says , anger that is left unresolved ‘ does not bring about the righteous life that God desires ’ ( Jas. 1:20 ) . |
| 18 | The danger , clearly , is that a tight budget will not bring about the desired response from the financial markets , and business will get the worst of both worlds — continued high interest rates and no help from the budget . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it was a defiant stand which was to be admired even if the final outcome did not bring about the desired result . |
| 20 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 21 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 22 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 23 | If the bank mortgage form does not set out the precise amount of the home loan and the terms under which it is to be repaid , then it is important to ensure that the client receives a letter from the bank manager spelling out in precise terms the nature of the loan , the interest rate applicable to it and the regularity of the instalment payments . |
| 24 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 25 | ‘ Why not go out the front gate , the way they came in ? ’ |
| 26 | However , the likelihood is that processing and seeking will be entirely overlapped so this will not hold up the overall run very seriously . |
| 27 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 28 | But all the will-power she could muster could not shut out the desolate sense of emptiness that had closed like a cold hand round her heart . |
| 29 | The boy could not breathe in the choking air and began coughing and panicking . |
| 30 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |