Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the authorised biography she describes the Australian lawyer as ‘ tall and distinguished looking ’ . |
| 2 | Some might worry that he is allowing the Californians to influence him too much , but I ca n't help feeling that so long as he manages to stay on his horse he remains the best sort of Englishman aborad . |
| 3 | After all , if he does n't like the future he has the personal possibility — and responsibility of moving to another outfit whose potential he thinks is greater . |
| 4 | In The Form of Living he charts the sacramental understanding at the heart of the Mass , as a whole way of life and perceived growth in consciousness ; his Meditations on the Passion engage with different stages of such growth and , indeed , are designed to act as catalysts for its progress . |
| 5 | Flight lieutenant Fraser Boyd does n't like heights ; With that in mind he hopes the final adjustments he 's making in dock in Plymouth will render a return visits unnecessary while half way across the Atlantic . |
| 6 | Once it is made clear that the judge makes new law in these circumstances , as conventionalism insists , then it seems plausible that he should choose the rule he believes the actual legislature then in power would choose , or , failing that , the rule he believes best represents the will of the people as a whole . |
| 7 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
| 8 | For if it relates to the BBC per se then it conveniently overlooks its seedier and more questionable aspects , whilst if it relates to some imaginary institution it ignores the real pressures on institutions which make them somehow less ideal than one would desire . |
| 9 | Office Management I provides the theoretical framework to allow students to respond to direction and to operate within the necessary constraints of the organisational environment . |
| 10 | Italian pop star Loredana Berte told a judge she needs the massive handouts to keep her in the luxurious style she enjoyed when they were together . |
| 11 | Lord of the Flies is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island — a Defoe-like subject , though unlike Crusoe it uses the third person — but reversing Defoe , it tells of their rapid descent into savagery , totem-worship and the childish joys of torture and terror . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he does any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer ; and ( b ) at the time when he does the act he has the requisite intent and the requisite knowledge . |
| 13 | Nearer home he recalls the late Gordon Coe 's 50 years at Evenwood , Harry Brown 's near lifetime service to Shildon and generations of the Fairbairn family then as now helping football survive at Tow Law . |
| 14 | When a neurotransmitter fits into its receptor it triggers the chemical response that changes the membrane potential and passes the signal from one neurone to another . |
| 15 | Nor do I expect an angler to recognise every bite he feels the first time he tries touch legering . |
| 16 | As God 's ultimate judgement She punishes the evil forces by annihilating them . |
| 17 | At the moment she sees the mainstream industry benefiting from the wealth of new perspectives , the risk-taking and experimentation that the grant-aided sector encourages , but for how much longer ? |
| 18 | At one point he rephrases the central dilemma of innovation and in so doing he implies that the most important characteristic of a school 's internal organisation is a ‘ collaborative professional relationship ’ among teachers . |
| 19 | In rhythm and theme he echoes the magnificent coda to Love 's Labour 's Lost : |
| 20 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 21 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 22 | Yes , it starts at , it says on the front it starts at seven , and then at the back it says the actual quiz starts at seven thirty . |
| 23 | By curving up its abdomen it gives the false impression that it is about to strike with its tail . |
| 24 | After a thorough summary of the evidence he reaches the following conclusions : |
| 25 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 26 | As a general argument it straddles the two others , being more limited than either but broader than each . |
| 27 | In recognition of his work with the Council and other bodies , David was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1991 , and this month he receives the honorary degree of Doctor of Education from Napier University . |
| 28 | If during that week he works the following number of hours , how much should his take home pay be ? |
| 29 | On paper it appears the light blues are inches shorter … and a few months older … but what about on the water ? |
| 30 | His playing is thoughtful and warm , generally responsive to the music 's nature ; and he can turn a phrase charmingly , as with the melancholy ‘ October ’ and in the flexible lines of the central con grazia section of ‘ April ’ ( though at the start he strums the off-beat chords rather casually ) . |