Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 . |
| 2 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 3 | Children here do n't lack any sort of ability it 's because th they English is n't their first language so they need support in learning English to help them with the everyday necessities of the national curriculum . |
| 4 | But there is no life , if you dare not test yourself , if you dare not feel free to live it to the full . |
| 5 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 6 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 7 | While we have examined Oakeshott as a conservative thinker therefore we must be careful to distinguish him from the religious conservatism of Burke and from the mainstream forms of conservatism which Huntington identified in the aristocratic and situational theories as ideological defences of the ancien régime or of established institutions . |
| 8 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 9 | Anyone familiar with the clear , highly distinctive aroma of geranium would know that one would need to be totally anosmic to confuse it with the soft , deep notes of sandalwood . |
| 10 | This cultural change is the second major theme of this book , but it is not easy to separate it from the political story . |
| 11 | She thrust her chin upward in mock anger , delighted to have him on the defensive . |
| 12 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 13 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 14 | In the absence of other voices making the same moral argument sufficiently loudly , we should perhaps be grateful to hear it from the very heart of the establishment . |
| 15 | The Labour Party was not deterred from developing a domestic program me despite the growing concentration on foreign affairs . |
| 16 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 17 | I CA N'T think of anything more likely to get us through the pre-Christmas traumas than a new play by Don Hayworth . |
| 18 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 19 | It is helpful to discuss it with the main witnesses , first off ; brings it alive , if you know what I mean . ’ |
| 20 | The hairs are long to protect it against the bitter alpine nights . |
| 21 | It was such qualities , combined with its outstanding durability and scarcity , that led the Chinese to invest it with the symbolic qualities and applications that served to mark it out all the more emphatically as for them precious beyond all other substances . |
| 22 | She was reluctant to lose him to the other side . |
| 23 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 24 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 25 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 26 | If you are currently unable to provide us with the relevant information , please indicate by which date this would be possible . |
| 27 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 28 | But it is not right for a member of the teaching staff to so present that disciplinary framework that the student is unable to view it from the outside or is discouraged from officering an alternative perspective from another discipline . |
| 29 | Our advise would be to first speak to your accountants who would be able to talk you through the various options which are : |
| 30 | PERSONAL liability of £250,000 to £1 million is advisable to cover you for the legal liability of injuring someone or damaging their property , particularly as insurers report an increase in such claims . |