Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] and [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three weeks most peace went mad , but very quietly , and without an argument , but the strong minded continued to stand fast and weather the quiet and unargumentative storm . |
| 2 | Resolute again , as though energised by his own words and thoughts , he told Theo to stand firm and take the broad view . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's absolute humbug for cricket 's administrators not to come clean and tell the cricketing world everything that took place inside Lord 's famous pavilion that Sunday . ’ |
| 4 | On the following evening , her plan laid , Joan again found an excuse to retire early and put the first part of the scheme into action . |
| 5 | They were the first to study magic and remain the greatest masters of it in the known world . |
| 6 | Hence the resolve in Bonn , so far , to keep quiet and hope the last Soviet soldier goes home before the end of 1994 . |
| 7 | In the name of France , he ordered all troops to remain loyal and oppose the four generals . |
| 8 | Saad later went on to take Madain and bring the Sassanian empire to an end , initiating in the process the substitution of Islam for Zoroastrianism as Persia 's state religion . |
| 9 | To stress the importance of the repressive political environment is not to imply that it is the ‘ natural ’ destiny of labour movements to become moderate and accept the basic ground rules of capitalism . |