Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The director may be trying to demonstrate the situation as it was then , but in not offering the viewer some entree into the little we see of the Black peoples interaction with each other , she colludes with it . |
2 | But fortunately his own cast have not taken such advice and under the musical direction of Marius Constant they soar above the lugubrious libretto based on Maeterlinck 's play . |
3 | ‘ And , ’ continued the badger ceremoniously , ‘ I am sure I speak for the entire population in wishing you all the very best in driving away this menace in our midst . |
4 | 'You want to make sure I look like the guilty party if anything goes wrong . |
5 | Make sure you return to the lying position each time after touching the knee . |
6 | Make sure you refer to the correct table : weekly or monthly . |
7 | ( But do n't forget that you still need to make sure you start with the right sum insured and to tell us if you improve your home or add to your possessions . ) |
8 | You should use this strategy too ; make sure you start with the simplest changes for you . |
9 | You , you , I 'm sure you read about the twenty two million pound deal with er , B B C and er , and there are , there are other deals in the offing . |
10 | We 've got ta make sure we stay in the first division but |
11 | The strengths of the present one lie in the male singers : Markus Schäfer is a lightish Acis , who knows how to shade such a piece as ‘ Love in her eyes sits playing ’ , while Wilfried Jochens makes an exceptionally graceful and fluent Damon ( my apologies if I have these two the wrong way round ; the box and booklet are not explicit ) ; while Peter Like , with his light staccato , his controlled pianissimo and his splendidly rotund tone , makes as good a Polyphemus as any I recall . |
12 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
13 | Some wall anchors are corrosion-resistant , and through bolts are available which work in the same way as frame plugs . |
14 | The EMP , NaAuCl 4 and Baker 's dimercurial derivatives have two major sites in common which conform to the non-crystallographic symmetry ( binding at His 12 ) . |
15 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
16 | We pray for those who have been called to serve you full-time , and in particular we pray for the Christian workers in the city of Exeter . |
17 | Yeah but when it 's the other one that 's slow they go by the other one . |