Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 2 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
| 3 | Bonn can plainly not afford the political price of continuing to shore up the German Democratic Republic with billions of Deutsche Marks unless in return for genuine reform . |
| 4 | If you feel drained ( despite having carried out the previous visualisations ) , take a shower , if possible , or a bath containing essence of juniper . |
| 5 | And it has now won a record-breaking fourth consecutive term , the first for 150 years , despite failing to retain even the 44 per cent share of the vote on which it came to power in 1979 . |
| 6 | Guppy allegedly boasted of having carried out the perfect crime , the court heard . |
| 7 | Yet he has allowed the excess creation of credit to continue , and has not used the obvious policy of overfunding to mop up the excess money supply . |
| 8 | These extreme examples highlight the ludicrousness of trying to draw together the physical traits of black people when it is clear that there exist as many differences between individual blacks as between blacks and non-blacks . |
| 9 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |
| 10 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |
| 11 | He criticised the committee for failing to say where the extra money needed to come from in the defence budget . |
| 12 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 13 | Nature was seen as a process of strife between divine cosmic powers and demoniacal chaotic powers in which humans were not just spectators but were obliged to play an active part in helping to bring about the required phenomena by acting in full unison with nature . |
| 14 | ‘ The duty engineer will consult the computer before deciding to call out the gritting teams . ’ |
| 15 | But in attempting to discover why the Russian Revolution followed the path it did , he found himself arriving at the conclusion that , far from being a ‘ false ’ deviation , in the circumstances of history Stalinism had been necessary . |
| 16 | In deciding to get together the two firms reveal that they think this union will be in their private interest , but we must ask whether mergers are in the public interest . |
| 17 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
| 18 | There is intense perceived pain in contemplating giving up the mood-altering substance or behaviour and making further major changes in these " pictures " of reality . |
| 19 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 20 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |
| 21 | The French government is holding out an olive branch to the drivers by offering to negotiate how the new traffic laws are applied . |