Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 2 | A loving partner 's selfless support gives you the extra edge you need to succeed . |
| 3 | Bracing the right side gives you the only opportunity to use the left side to start the forward swing smoothly and efficiently . |
| 4 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 5 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 6 | East Germany 's ringing endorsement of his plan for speedy German unity makes him the strongest contender to lead the strongest power in non-communist Europe . |
| 7 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 8 | Brown ‘ boiled-up cow ’ type glue is holding the all-solid construction together remarkably well , and the high action makes it the perfect instrument for playing bottleneck and slide blues . |
| 9 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 10 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 11 | However , significant resources are also being made available by the private sector where there is no immediate commercial gain : thus IBM UK Ltd has donated £3.5m. of computing equipment to UNEP and IBM in general is actively supporting other R&D which can be expected to facilitate ‘ sustainable development ’ : IBM Europe , for instance , has invested $16m. in its Bergen scientific centre to make it the focal point for the company 's environmental modelling and a centre for information on the environment and sustainable development . |
| 12 | In Yugoslavia 's biggest postwar strike , nearly 700,000 workers in Serbia 's textile , leather and metallurgical industries stopped work on April 16 to demand that the Serbian government pay them the guaranteed minimum monthly wage , backdated to January , and that it abolish new taxes introduced at the end of 1990 . |
| 13 | But today The Daily Mirror reveals what the Nineties teenager really thinks about making love . |
| 14 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 15 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 16 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 17 | Why not let the private sector provide what the public sector can not or will not ? |
| 18 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 19 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 20 | ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard . |
| 21 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 22 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 23 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 24 | The Royal Horticultural Society awarded her the Banksian medal in 1906 . |
| 25 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 26 | But North West teenagers receive an extra 20p making them the third highest paid in the country . |
| 27 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 28 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 29 | We considered gas , electricity and oil , and natural gas offered us the best benefits , ’ said Mike MacCormack , Administrator at Dunster Castle . |
| 30 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |