Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an exhaustive knowledge of Sunday Schools and it was depressing to find him full of the same bogus affability that she detected on every Sabbath of the year . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The crews were given caffeine tablets to keep them awake during the long flights and sometimes we managed to get hold of a few . |
| 7 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It caused us a lot of extra work , major changes and more travel to get it right for the second larger meeting . |
| 12 | THAT AWFUL MOMENT WHEN YOU HAVE TO GET IT DIRTY FOR THE FIRST TIME |
| 13 | Many times after cooking and cleaning there , she would have to bring suitcases of washing back to our house in Taibach to get it ready for the next visit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Initially Ferrari estimates 25 per cent of Mondials will be ordered with the clutch , but during 1992 plans to make it available for the 348 , too . |
| 21 | The cost of unity could be done through a gradual restructuring of the Ulster economy to make it similar to the Irish Republic . |
| 22 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Announcing the changes , Lacalle stated that he was creating a " special cabinet " , comprising de Posadas , Ache , Braga and Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Alvaro Ramos Trigo , to supervise the restructuring of Uruguay 's industrial sector and to make it competitive in the planned 1995 four-member South American common market , Mercosur [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 25 | Taskopruzade includes in his account , however , between Molla Husrev 's appointments on the death of Hizir Bey and his departure for Bursa , a considerable amount of material more or less related to Molla Husrev 's activities in these capacities , enough to make it improbable in the extreme that he held the offices for so short a period . |