Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , what remains especially striking and distinctive is the English reluctance to take back the elderly within the home as dependents . |
| 3 | PRESIDENT Franois Mitterrand of France threw his weight yesterday behind a Soviet proposal to bring forward to next year a 35-nation conference to hammer out the future shape of Europe . |
| 4 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 5 | Very few general hospital units , however , have recognized how important this service was to individual patients and now it usually falls to a beleaguered social worker to take on the complex task of sorting out welfare benefits ; social workers are not , however , experts in this field and it is a time-consuming task that few of them relish . |
| 6 | If the compost heap seems dry , water it with the hose and cover with old carpet to speed up the natural rotting process . |
| 7 | They were designed to operate closely with local government and the private sector to bring about the economic development of the inner areas . |
| 8 | This way of thinking is probably healthier than the one which sees evangelism as synonymous with an evangelistic crusade to fill up the existing churches ' buildings , and make existing churches stronger . |
| 9 | Yet it was not an unsuccessful attempt to bring out the best in his audience . |
| 10 | She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops . |
| 11 | The Bank also uses the Exchange Equalization Account to intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up surplus sterling to keep up the external value of the pound . |
| 12 | If there is one of interest in your area , please contact the appropriate person to find out the full details and whether places are still available . |
| 13 | The Bible provides a clear and simple way to clear up the major cause of trouble , and that way is reconciliation . |
| 14 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 15 | In-house personnel are being utilized on a full-time basis to carry out the above activities and as a consequence , internal data collection capabilities have increased . |
| 16 | Quite apart from idiosyncratic spellings , lack of punctuation , inconsistent use of capital letters and a widespread inability to add up the total valuation , one is confronted with archaic and dialect words . |
| 17 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 18 | He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ . |
| 19 | The invitations can be in the shape of a banana , make a large banana to put on the front door , and decorate the room with bananas and long yellow balloons . |
| 20 | She clutched the warm , glowing vision to herself like a hot-water bottle to keep out the cold and loneliness of the night . |
| 21 | Giles had a remarkable ability to bring out the best in his students and juniors , and by conveying his faith in them he gave them faith in themselves . |
| 22 | The invitations can be clock-shaped with the hands pointing to the starting time , and you can make a large clock to put on the front door . |
| 23 | Enticing private enterprise to take over the American Landsat remote-sensing system is fairly easy to understand . |
| 24 | For a subtle effect with lighting in the evenings , install low-voltage lights in your alcove , and use perforated hardboard to cut out the arch shape . |
| 25 | On all sides were banks of flowers , and climbing shrubs and vines formed a partial canopy to keep out the fierce sun . |
| 26 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 27 | For some reason they ignore these hygienic delights and go padding off to some stagnant puddle to lap up the filthy water there . |
| 28 | Remove the headgear , then use a flat-bladed screwdriver to lever out the existing jumper |
| 29 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 30 | The climate is good , not too hot but with brilliant sunshine to set off the vivid colouring and give shade and modelling to the arcaded treatment of façades . |