Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the man withdrew as silently as he had arrived , Joan was surprised to find herself alone with the young king . |
| 2 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 3 | Now it is time to shake yourself free from the gentle form of the dove . |
| 4 | they would have to arrest everyone responsible for the present crises . |
| 5 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 6 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 7 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 8 | That ought to be enough to bargain myself clear of the whole mess . |
| 9 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 10 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 11 | I was frequently told of the necessity for study overseas in order to do anything worthwhile in the academic field because facilities in China were so ‘ backward ’ . |
| 12 | The crews were given caffeine tablets to keep them awake during the long flights and sometimes we managed to get hold of a few . |
| 13 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 14 | JULIE-ANN , 18 , needs someone to keep her sane during the long winter months . |
| 15 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
| 16 | These strands do not continue throughout the levels because it is not possible to specify further measurable stages of development in these abilities , and it would be cumbersome to repeat them unchanged throughout the remaining seven levels . |
| 17 | When it opened in 1931 , erected on 22,000 concrete piles to lift it clear of the water-sodden ground , it already sported its own blast furnace , foundry , jetty and power station . |
| 18 | The Congress is virtually certain to declare itself independent of the Soviet Party . |
| 19 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on Jan. 11 went to the Soviet Baltic republic of Lithuania on a mission to seek solutions to a secessionist crisis created by the December 1989 decision of the Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL ) to declare itself independent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 20 | It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley . |
| 21 | is a marvellous new publication which is specifically for parents of pre-school children , to make them aware of the Catholic network of schools provided for them . |
| 22 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 23 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 24 | While we pause after the first phase of our acceptance are we to rely on exams for all to prove ourselves worthy of the kindly eye of the state ? |
| 25 | Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa . |
| 26 | Taking a leaf out of her newest role model Joan Collins ’ book , Kylie never again emerged through a customs hall before spending as long as was needed to make herself ready for the waiting world . |
| 27 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
| 28 | Now Russo then representative democracy is n't a refinement of democracy to make it appropriate for the modern world , but a way of giving away all the merits of democracy . |
| 29 | The cost of unity could be done through a gradual restructuring of the Ulster economy to make it similar to the Irish Republic . |
| 30 | His first Prayer Book was influenced by Luther ; his second more by Zwingli , in an attempt to make it acceptable to the Continental churches and enable a Reformed General Council to bring the whole of Christendom into a new and scriptural unity . |