Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By detecting heat this can provide a picture that would be impossible to detect with just the human eye . |
| 2 | Further good news is that more and more survivors are regularly meeting together , often to unburden themselves , sometimes to experience at least the psychological satisfaction of knowing that they 're not alone . |
| 3 | In identifying these three , Urry is concerned to argue against both the Marxist concept of base and superstructure and the ‘ autonomist ’ approach that the three spheres are autonomous are both inadequate , because they fail |
| 4 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 5 | Devlin 's argument is that ‘ exploitation ’ and ‘ corruption ’ are such nebulous terms that almost any field of morality could be defined in a way to allow at least the theoretical intervention of the law . |
| 6 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 7 | The income trust will invest in between 60 and 70 UK stocks — mainly blue chip companies like ICI — and will seek to maintain at least the current dividends levels in all but ‘ the worst possible economic circumstances . ’ |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that Thucydides when he wrote these words had not lived to see at least the Spartan Thibron 's Asian expedition of 400 . |
| 9 | The recommendations are contained in section five and five one C effectively impress the assistance of Policy Committee in addressing the need to sustain at least the current level of spending of three point nine million on these small but vital schemes throughout the period of the medium term plan . |
| 10 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |
| 11 | Here , as with others of the Nine , I shall try to touch on both the inner meaning and the outer realities of the Great Mother . |
| 12 | but that was before the sound of constant splashing started to emanate from alongside the closing hole . |
| 13 | Churchill gave Attlee one last boost when they were both back in London and the election results — postponed for three weeks owing to the need to bring from abroad the postal votes of the forces serving overseas — were at last declared . |