Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Plunder and lawlessness from the free-born slowly emerge as the greater menace .
2 I hope the yungstirs do not hav much dribble with the difficult wurds .
3 All atoms with a particular speed thus deposit in the same place .
4 The application of techniques 1 : the attacker and defender both begin in the right stance .
5 Even ten years after the re-establishment of monarchy , those in power were not keen to see the Protectorate 's most eloquent defender openly engage in the unmistakable political rhetoric of the tract and pamphlet .
6 If at a higher speed then reduce to the required figure before commencing descent .
7 Lewis watched the silhouette gradually form behind the opaque glass in the upper half of the front door .
8 To dismantle the question further look for the other parts .
9 In so far as the auditor in the public sector is expressing an opinion on financial statements , then the Auditing Standards and Guidelines that apply in the private sector also apply in the public sector , absent specific statements to the contrary ( Auditing Guideline 416 , 1987 ) .
10 Many things that a decade ago would have been regarded as the province exclusively of the statutory sector now fall into the voluntary sector .
11 Triumph Adler 's Walkstation family and Olivetti 's Quaderno portable range currently compete in the German market .
12 The linguistic roots of the British Caribbean community obviously lie in the Caribbean .
13 The 231 staff were re-employed indefinitely — at cost of £50,000 each — some doing less work for the same money .
14 A test performed at a reputable clinic — and found to be positive — is checked by doing further test on the same sample using different methods to detect HIV antibodies .
15 But did the concept of citizenship really strike to the very vitals of Britain 's political parties ?
16 Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series .
17 We note his use in ( 3 ) of the inclusive first-person pronoun our , and the change from the narrative past tense to the perfective ( has run ) and the future ( will last ) .
18 Children 's paintings hung on the gate of a timber yard , the most restrained moment of a day long protest against the tropical timber trade .
19 But the Dutchman is smart enough to know that even though the practice session at the stadium went well , his strike-force still suffer from the age-old Irish problem .
20 GRAEME SOUNESS angrily claimed he would quit football if the tactics used by Crystal Palace last night ever prevail in the English game .
21 Should not the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the false promises that he made in 1991 ?
22 A week long visit to the Yugoslavian quality assessors by QAI managing director Peter Ainsworth and director Alf Duffield could clinch the deal .
23 The recession of the 1970s hit developing countries even harder than rich ones — the shockwaves that rock the world economy always crash against the poorer nations with most violence .
24 The slim week Cut down food for one week then return to the basic plan .
25 This proved in itself a major revolution , not only for the liturgy , but also for clerical life , even if the initial rather clumsy practice of massive concelebration by all priests present at any Mass itself expressed over-forcibly a clergy-laity divide and has later tended to give way — except for certain symbolic occasions ( e.g. of a bishop meeting with his diocesan clergy ) — to a pattern in which most supernumerary priests at a given Mass simply join with the lay congregation .
26 Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing .
27 Thoughts on the monarchy invariably turn on the constitutional insights of a former editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot , after whom this column is named .
28 The syndrome of imperfections that make up " maternal depletion " coupled usually with lower educational level and larger family size evidently account for the lower survival chances of infants and young children whose mothers were beyond age 39 at the birth .
29 Pigeons used to the northern hemisphere but moved to the southern hemisphere likewise orient with the predicted 180° error at noon .
30 They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World .
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