Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was three o'clock by the tower clock when I finally forced my numb fingers to dose the creaking covers of the Thesaurus Exorcismorum . |
| 2 | At first relations were kept quite close by sending a monk from Cluny herself or one of her elder daughters to supervise the new foundation and be its first prior ; and the abbot of Cluny received the professions of all new monks and appointed many of the priors personally . |
| 3 | We look to the British car manufacturing industry and its European counterparts to do the same as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | Sara , for instance , personally persuaded two of her pregnant friends to attend the antenatal classes for pregnant teenagers that she went to more effectively than any advertising campaign . |
| 5 | It had taken their combined savings to make the down payment on a house in overcrowded Tollemarche and Isobel had declared that she could manage without a car . |
| 6 | From 1650 onwards , in partial imitation of Hobbes , a variety of authors managed in their different ways to transform the biblical thesis that civilization reflects a decline from a pristine state of grace into a cynical doctrine which declares that the observed condition of man in society has been superimposed by social restraints or cultural conditioning upon a pre-human condition of animality in which " man " was a solitary brute devoid of any kind of natural humanity . |
| 7 | Over the years more and more evidence consistent with the electroweak theory has come from numerous experiments not only at CERN but at particle accelerators throughout the world , and in 1979 , Heldon Glashow , Abdus Salam , and Steven Weinberg received the Nobel prize in recognition of their theoretical endeavours to unite the weak and electromagnetic forces . |
| 8 | The debate was inflamed by rumours of Bolshevik backing for the Labour party and the publication of the so-called Zinoviev Letter , in which the Communist International instructed its British members to infiltrate the Labour party and the trades unions . |
| 9 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 10 | content with the policy of the Communist Party and its tactics in the United Front had grown in the ILP to an extent which caused many of its remaining members to adopt the theoretical arguments of Trotskyism while resenting its organized activities . |
| 11 | There are many advantages of working this way , two of which are that the performance technique required is minimal , well within the abilities of the class to achieve a satisfactory result from their point of view , and that it allows the class and its individual members to control the emotional input . |
| 12 | As daughters earning good wages , they tended in their later years to become the sole breadwinners in households containing elderly mothers and , in a surprisingly large number of cases , handicapped or ailing sisters . |
| 13 | As residential restrictions on blacks buying houses in white areas are relaxed , he is beginning to pick up black clients just as anxious as their white neighbours to escape the dark forces prowling the streets . |
| 14 | It remains to be seen whether the DES 's new funding arrangements for in-service training will enhance or inhibit that alliance , despite its avowed intentions to do the former . |
| 15 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 16 | The new European Company may well prove to be the Eurochicken into which EEIGs will hatch , if the Commission succeeds in its renewed efforts to overcome the various problems currently inhibiting its birth . |
| 17 | They flew out fast , located the target with the aid of their radar equipment , dropped their coloured indicators to show the heavy boys where to go , and then nipped smartly back to base . |
| 18 | She sighed erotically in his ear , as the tips of his fingers explored between her mature quim-lips to run the whole length of her crack as if he were playing scales on a piano . |
| 19 | These women have made full use of their respective groups to discuss the theoretical , formal and personal concerns underpinning and sustaining the shifts within their creative practice . |
| 20 | For example , in 1955 Israel allowed the British and US forces to overfly its territory and use its facilities in their respective operations to safeguard the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan and the government in Lebanon , both then threatened by Arab radicalism . |
| 21 | One in five report the rise as ‘ significant ’ and one in two have increased their own prices to cover the extra costs . |
| 22 | Many residents have installed their own faxes to complete the office-from-office style . |
| 23 | In his introduction Piero Pazzi discusses some of the more piquant examples : in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council well-meaning but misguided parish priests broke up their own collections to help the poor . |
| 24 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |
| 25 | It 's the miracle-madness — those travelling bandits with their gilded snares to catch the ignorant and the innocent . |
| 26 | Lay members of the church moved with their religious leaders to condemn the institutionalized violence " of the oligarchy and now offer both political and practical support to the opposition . |
| 27 | Two other members of the platoon have drawn the short straw , and are now dressed in their best uniforms to perform the once-monthly guard duties at the Allied Kommandatura building . |
| 28 | In a complementary initiative , a wide ranging analysis of the health care system — the National Health Strategy — has as one of its main objectives to improve the equitable impact of the health system . |
| 29 | I wish he could use his Saudi influences to prevent the barbaric practice of decapitation of human beings which takes place every Friday in the square at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 30 | The opt-out clause is a fig leaf that the Prime Minister is clutching to his private parts to cover the serious disagreements in his party , and especially the objections from its right wing . |