Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 2 | They are no longer playing with it or enjoying it , but try with a numb next-door-to-crying persistence to scramble over the wall and climb the slag-bank . |
| 3 | The second point is that of course as we accept into the role of opposition indeed to give these alternative proposals , give this particulary case to come within the government guidelines . |
| 4 | Donnington now produces the only beer on the Cotswolds and , with the possible exception of Uley , is the smallest working brewery to survive in the county . |
| 5 | Try to make these positive , and if possible try to manage with the resources already available to you . |
| 6 | The two girls were rescued from the car by their mother uninjured … she 'd run after the car in a vain attempt to pull on the handbrake . |
| 7 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 8 | The question is whether these hallowed archaisms are only a surface phenomenon which a sensible modernization of Parliament would easily sweep away , or whether they indicate a fundamental unsuitability in the traditional kind of representative institution to cope with the problems of modern democratic government . |
| 9 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 10 | At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier . |
| 11 | The painting of July 1890 , executed just days before van Gogh killed himself , and France 's first historic monument to go on the block , was sold on 6 December by Jean-Claude Binoche to French banker and businessman Jean-Marc Vernes . |
| 12 | This is not new in child-centred teaching , but Way extends the notion of direct experience to exercise of the senses in the way other theatre people like Rose Bruford ( 1955 ) have recommended for children . |
| 13 | People that go to Comdex do n't rate Unix , the twice-yearly technology poll conducted by Byte magazine among attendees seems to suggest — and IBM Corp still has an uphill fight to win over the hearts and minds that are presently in the Microsoft Corp camp . |
| 14 | Compromising , Theda found a piece of old blanket to place on the coverlet so that his hairs might not spread everywhere . |
| 15 | Consequently , other market members ( and their customers ) may not have had a proper opportunity to participate in the trade . |
| 16 | The Liverpool striker has rejected the offer of a new one-year contract to stay with the Reds . |
| 17 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 18 | Leave enough free cable to connect to the light fitting |
| 19 | Chamber of Trade secretary , Bob Clough Parker , has written to British Rail to complain about the ticket office . |
| 20 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 21 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 22 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 23 | They had no intention of applying for a weekly permit to play on the street corner in every town throughout Scotland . |
| 24 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 25 | The solar wind originates in the atmosphere of the Sun , and consists of a tenuous gas that has acquired sufficiently high outward speed to escape from the Sun . |
| 26 | On the 22nd , a major German attempt to capitalise on the Avocourt success was caught by brilliantly sited French machine guns , firing at them from three sides . |
| 27 | Ramaswamy , the third public figure to resign over the affair since April [ see pp. 39008 ; 39053 ] , was replaced on Nov. 24 by Milon Kumar Banerjee . |
| 28 | This presentation allows the hint of primitive ritual to remain in the background , just as later Eliot was to imply with deliberate provocation that behind the High Mass lay , if one went back far enough , ‘ the Australian ceremonies described by Spencer and Gillen and Hewett [ sic ] ’ . |
| 29 | Unwieldy it may be in certain respects , but it is surely better for a model of meaning destined to serve a descriptive as opposed to a theoretical study to err on the side of generosity of scope , rather than on the side of austerity . |
| 30 | As a way of ensuring effective job control , it is sound practice to develop within the office , standard systems for communicating important information such as contract instructions , valuation details , site reports , meeting minutes . |