Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that the German Infantry facing the Marines has surrendered , and now No. 4 Commando Brigade are following up the retreating Germans . |
| 2 | While the BARB meters can record whether the VCR or an on-air programme is being watched , there is no way of telling whether people watching a time-shifted programme are cutting out the commercial breaks — or , indeed , what programme they are watching . |
| 3 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 4 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
| 5 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 6 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 7 | These points generally apply equally whether the action is brought in the High Court or county court . |
| 8 | Every time the monitor is powered up the de-gaussing circuit fires up and destroys and/or corrupts all your lovely data that 's being stored right next to the great big degaussing coil surrounding the screen . |
| 9 | His agent was sorting out the fine print . |
| 10 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 11 | So when my parent is handing out the parental investment , I will be selected to want the parent to give the investment to my sibling if the benefit is twice as great as it would be to myself . |
| 12 | I was then brought up to this room , in which , at that point of the day , the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably . |
| 13 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 14 | THOSE who insisted that the Queen pay income tax were barking up the wrong tree . |
| 15 | The process is repeated down the entire column of figures . |
| 16 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
| 17 | Our job was to point out the commercial success of British Coal as a modern company able to compete . ’ |
| 18 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 19 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
| 20 | The low point was sitting out the European contests with a broken arm . |
| 21 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
| 22 | My next move was to mask out the central picture area with a piece of paper , taped at its edges onto the existing strips of masking tape . |
| 23 | We looked through the files to see how the big men at the top are sizing up the hard decisions in a man 's life |
| 24 | A compromise is to filter out the damaged records ( any with an entry in Field 13 ) to a separate table , to be scanned visually , corrected with the script , inspected and returned to the original table . |
| 25 | As suggested elsewhere , one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen . |
| 26 | It was twilight and a brilliant new moon was gliding down the bright end of the sky , followed by a cascade of stars . |
| 27 | It was excavated in an unsystematic way , and the many illustrations of finds show that the emphasis was put on the recovered finds rather than on the site itself In this illustration , published soon after the excavation in 1883 , the burial was attributed to the Vikings . |
| 28 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
| 29 | as if a finger were put on the naked soul ! |
| 30 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |