Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 2 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 3 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 4 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 5 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 6 | In the thick of a stubborn recession , his Government portfolio is a tricky one to carry around on the General Election campaign . |
| 7 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 8 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 9 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 10 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 11 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
| 12 | Religious Observance holds a very special place in Catholic schools , it is not something added on to the Religious Education component , it is the expression of commitment to one 's faith , it brings reality to theory , it is the vehicle through which faith is deepened . |
| 13 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 14 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 15 | Yet no one walked out of the big top , there were no fundamentalist pickets outside , no attempts to disrupt the service . |
| 16 | I 'm the one running around in the fockin' rain ! ’ |
| 17 | The latter is either a private network , or one set up by the local authority in your area which operates an alarm system at a central control point . |
| 18 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 19 | No one brought up in the Jewish faith with his sort of European connections could fail to be unaware , or convulsed , by the nightmare we call the Holocaust . |
| 20 | There were complications that she did n't understand — something to do with the fluid they kept draining off , something arising out of the chronic empyema . |
| 21 | Karajan would give that fantasist all the freedom he needed because he knew that what appeals to an audience is something arising out of the immediate performance , out of something that is happening within the mind of the musician at that moment . |
| 22 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 23 | The importance of this was made evident following the results of another survey in April , this one carried out by the German Government , which identified that 46% of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow as a result of impact shock vibration . |
| 24 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 25 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 26 | Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money . |
| 27 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 28 | Well no it does n't , if there 's nothing , if there 's nothing coming round from the other way it does n't go . |
| 29 | Once Nadirpur and Saint Julien had been introduced , everyone settled down around the large ‘ Ops Room ’ table while Brandy organised coffee and biscuits . |
| 30 | Soon , the spaceship left Earth , and everyone looked down at the burning planet . |