Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 2 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 3 | They ended in a pair of green bronze doors , each so high that they disappeared into the gloom . |
| 4 | This comment in a recent ILO/UNCTC study of EPZs in the Caribbean is very typical : ‘ In spite of the small number of jobs generated so far , the rate at which EPZs create employment is , however , so high that they rank as the most dynamic agents for job creation compared with other sources of national employment ’ ( Long , 1986 , p.60 ) . |
| 5 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 6 | He can only conjecture that additional maturational innovations will not become hereditary unless they harmonize with the previous ones that are already being recapitulated in maturation . |
| 7 | Contract computer staff are also interesting because they differ from the traditional " temp " secretary . |
| 8 | As an inhouse technique the best practice reviews are low cost , and the findings are readily acceptable since they derive from the way familiar colleagues in the same overall business carry out their tasks . |
| 9 | Roads Minister Kenneth Carlisle said : ‘ If candidates had a more thorough knowledge of the Highway Code and other safety matters they would be more prepared when they take to the roads by themselves . ’ |
| 10 | The two were inseparable as they trailed around the neighbourhood , never leaving each other 's side . |
| 11 | The weather is unpredictable and the mountains exceptionally high as they climb towards the Vaults . |
| 12 | While there , he was able to forget the ritual of Monday morning when , in the darkness of winter or the bright light of summer 's early dawns , Celtic Crescent and the streets of Jewtown would be clamorous with the noise of horses being led from nearby stables and harnessed to carts , of men shouting instructions and calling to each other in Yiddish and English as they struggled under the weight of trunks and knapsacks stuffed to overflowing with clothes , fancy goods , kitchen articles , holy pictures , enlargements of family photographs — anything that might be suitable for selling from door to door on a weekly-payment basis . |
| 13 | The first if the ‘ bottom of the in-tray phenomenon ’ which refers to the continuous marginalisation , trivialisation and the hope that if the language issue is ignored everyone will learn English as they come through the Channel Tunnel . |
| 14 | Whole supermarkets in the Valley were stripped of their provender in a decorous food riot by the affluent , loading up their Wagoneers with Porterhouse and T-bone as they headed for the hills . |
| 15 | They were really afraid when they heard about the dangers of uranium . |
| 16 | It is the lens which completes the refraction of the rays of light as they pass through the posterior chamber ( which is filled with a jelloid substance , the vitreous humour ) . |
| 17 | People who already have breathing problems are badly affected if pollution levels are high when they come into the city centre . |
| 18 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |
| 19 | The country was bracken-clothed dunes , the plants so tall that they came over the horse 's withers in places . |
| 20 | They can seem quite dangerous if they come from the sky and land on someone 's head . |
| 21 | Venville tenants paid a certain , very small , fixed rent to the king or duchy , and were allowed free pasture on the commons and forest by day , but had to pay extra if they remained in the forest by night . |
| 22 | The two boys were no older than six , their eyes wide and fearful as they stared at the gun hanging limply at her side . |
| 23 | The train journey lasted all day , and it was dark when they arrived at the station . |
| 24 | It was almost totally dark when they arrived in the stable yard and Catherine jumped involuntarily as something moved and rattled against the boards . |
| 25 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 26 | The billows of cloud were gleaming as they moved through the rain , and briefly her senses lifted at the sight , but there was no instant consolation there — only , inside a crowded mind , a sudden increase of space . |
| 27 | Lindsey 's breathing felt constricted as they moved into the crowd . |
| 28 | Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line . |
| 29 | Things are just more striking if they happen against the background of Christmas . |
| 30 | The bare hills behind Agadir in the west are built of blue limestones so hard that they ring under the fossil-hunter 's hammer . |