Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |
| 2 | The present economic recession has highlighted the growing problems of financing an expanding education system and it has revived the debate on the contribution of education , and particularly higher education , to economic growth . |
| 3 | For disappointing though the Act was to prove to the great and unpropertied majority whose aspirations had been absorbed into the emotional dynamic needed to sustain the political will to secure its passage through Parliament , nevertheless it had shown that the Constitution could be changed constitutionally . |
| 4 | Dancing rebel Paul Mercurio adds a little Spanish sex to his stride , takes on the ballroom bosses and falls for frump turned dancehall diva Tara Morice , while the relentlessly zippy direction tries to match the hypermanic bump and hustle . |
| 5 | A more advanced technique involves camouflaging the real eye while at the same time making the false eye truly spectacular , with a huge black ‘ pupil ’ surrounded by a bright white eye-ring . |
| 6 | At the same time , members of the European Parliament have asked the European Commission to revise the social affairs proposals stalled in the Council of Ministers for months . |
| 7 | In July the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity agreed to ask the national parliaments of Western Europe to lend their voices to the argument . |
| 8 | The sole churchman to try to raise the Black issue in an effective way was Rev. Roy Magee , minister of Saintfield Presbyterian Church . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it seemed that the weak force did obey the combined symmetry CP . |
| 10 | The prime minister 's economic programme includes deregulating the foreign capital market , privatising 115 state-owned businesses — including the banks — within a year , and encouraging private investment in transport , communications and energy . |
| 11 | And this … ’ he gestured with his head , his strong neck turning to encompass the huge estate — the palace , the lake , the orchards , the view of the distant mountains , ‘ it 's beautiful . |
| 12 | To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture . |
| 13 | Tories now fear , however , that the whole sorry episode has damaged the Prime Minister too . |
| 14 | The Israeli delegation refused to discuss the controversial issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 15 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 16 | Above all , it offers an exciting opportunity to help develop the primary UK renewable energy technology . |
| 17 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 18 | I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | HUNDREDS OF heavy metal fans were left stranded at Derby Station last Saturday when British Rail failed to run the usual special train to London after the massive Donington Monsters of Rock festival . |
| 20 | When the track and the signals at the ageing junction were due for renewal , British Rail had chosen the cheapest option to enable InterCity trains to travel faster at the expense of local services , the inquiry into the 1991 disaster which killed four people and injured 22 , was told . |
| 21 | Although he has Aussie Mike Farrell returning to grind out a certain 1,000 league runs for him , new skipper of Marske , Alan Hugill , faces an uphill struggle having lost the valuable services of all-rounder John Drake who will be studying at Chester College and wicket keeper Graham Foggin who is working in the Bahamas . |
| 22 | The Nationalist high command had disrupted the normal functioning of the country 's political , economic , cultural and social life , but had given no thought to the construction of alternative infrastructures and super-structures on their own organizational patterns . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , as the Government endures months of opprobrium , there is a clear imperative to begin addressing the long-term , and small ways to make a start . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , as the Government endures months of opprobrium , there is a clear imperative to begin addressing the long-term , and small ways to make a start . |
| 25 | ‘ An early priority for an SNP government in an independent Scotland would be to remove any privatisation or franchising from the Scottish rail network and to expand the public service to meet the requirements of Scottish industry wishing to exploit the European single market . ’ |
| 26 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 27 | A WOULD-BE postie has criticised the Royal Mail for a second class service following a mix-up over job interviews . |
| 28 | America 's airlines will not welcome another foreign rival trying to do the same — especially a state-owned carrier . |
| 29 | A simple turbocharging job turns the lethargic twin-litre 940 SE into a spirited performer designed to stay the right side of the company car tax . |
| 30 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |