Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They were far enough from the city for the sounds of insurrection to be too faint to disturb anyone but the few scrawny goats which wandered listlessly around their enclosures . |
2 | Nevertheless , the British were able to persuade themselves that the Single European Act was essentially about setting a timetable ( 1 January 1993 ) and establishing the detailed provisions for a ‘ single ’ trading market ; as such the ‘ European idea ’ remained acceptably circumscribed . |
3 | Sometimes he would forget himself in the beauty of their flight , not understanding why people would come to see him and the other miserable eagles caged and confined and not seem to even notice the gulls and bold black rooks soaring freely and so beautifully above their heads . |
4 | The precise course of such relations and the detailed moral requirements they generate depend on the way individuals choose to develop them and the different normative implications with which they deliberately endow the relations . |
5 | A new site to house it and the famous chained library will be built on the site when the dig is finished . |
6 | Stephen had asked her to join him and the new general manager in his office that morning , and she had been eager to meet the young hotelier who came so highly qualified . |