Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 2 | The student must also write up the medical history and examination findings and discuss the psychosocial , ethical , legal , and nursing considerations of the patient 's case . |
| 3 | Teaching should also bring out the structural characteristics of different types of verse and poetry , eg nursery rhymes , concrete poetry , haiku , limericks , ballads , sonnets etc . |
| 4 | But now the old paternalism began to reassert itself , determined that whatever shackles had been placed around the BBC should also tie down the commercial companies . |
| 5 | This would , he thought , assist in deterrence because ‘ in crude , vulgar minds , the seductive picture of a particularly advantageous crime should immediately call up the associated idea of punishment ’ ( Beccaria , 1963 : 57 ) . |
| 6 | People with bright ideas must not only carry their opinions out of politics and into the research institutions , but must regularly move back the opposite way when the call comes . |
| 7 | The Offline Operator should then carry out the Offline Cycle as specified by LIFESPAN on the screen . |
| 8 | Well my understanding of team briefings , very quickly , is is to give you an example , after C S M T , what we should do is one of us should actually write down the key points from C S M T that you want to communicate to staff . |
| 9 | We 'll just sit out the present fighting and see what happens . |
| 10 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
| 11 | ‘ And the traffic will be so congested at this time of afternoon , you 'll hardly get down the High at all , and it 's clouding over , and Felicity should acclimatize herself before she goes out , particularly since Magdalen is so cold at this time of — ’ |
| 12 | And unless the city knows that it 's hopeless , they might simply pick up the whole war again . |
| 13 | Ironically , the actions of a few Western governments , led by the United states and including Britain , could finally kill off the nodule-mining industry before it even begins to operate , and all in the name of protecting the industry . |
| 14 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 15 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Through the open door Zen could just make out the huge ornate crucifix above the high altar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He lifted his head and , in the semi-darkness , she could just make out the wry smile that touched the corners of his mouth . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I could hardly walk up the front door . |
| 26 | He could still make out the huge man-shape , lying face down , its outline glowing from the residual embers of the phosphorus , like a blackened , smoking tree trunk . |
| 27 | Dr Jaffery could still point out the faded murals which filled niches of the Drum House — pictures of Central Asian plants , he thought , put there to remind the Mughals of their TransOxianan homelands — but the painted and gilt ceiling of the audience hall has entirely disappeared , along with the awnings , the Kashmiri carpets , the solid silver railings and the magnificent Peacock Throne which , with its twelve pillars of emerald supporting a golden roof topped with two gilt peacocks ablaze with precious stones , was arguably the most dazzling seat ever constructed . |
| 28 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 29 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 30 | Marx fancied that he could simply take over the Hegelian analysis and , in Engels ' famous phrase , ‘ stand Hegel the right way up ’ with no reference to the fact that Hegel 's whole analysis is rooted in an effort to resolve quite specific problems which he inherited in the theory of knowledge . |