Example sentences of "[noun prp] do [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 2 | The RIE does escape the financial resources requirements which would apply to an ordinary authorised firm , but for futures exchanges , capital matters are in any case delegated to the London Clearing House . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't really say about that , ’ she said , ‘ but — ’ launching into a text learned by heart — ‘ although guilty of many deviations from Marxism-Leninism and Socialist legality , Stalin did lead the heroic resistance of the Soviet peoples in the anti-Fascist war . ’ |
| 4 | Droning Dot and nurdish Nigel do have the odd laugh , but there 's never been a character who you could call easy going and game for a laugh . |
| 5 | Droning Dot and nurdish Nigel do have the odd laugh , but there 's never been a character who you could call easy going and game for a laugh . |
| 6 | ‘ The point is , I rang the accommodation warden just to check ; Matthew did visit the old boy every Sunday but he never spent more than half an hour with him . |
| 7 | But all the jollity does n't totally obscure his illegal activities ; Lovejoy did begin the previous series with a spell in jail . |
| 8 | ‘ the burden is upon the defendant , Mr. Smith , to satisfy the court on the balance of probabilities that Mr. Winterbone did have the necessary capacity . |
| 9 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 10 | Although I have said I do not mean to commend particular hotels or restaurants , I am compelled to break that rule here , just once , and say that Saint-Jean does have the only restaurant anywhere in the Pyrenees to which the Guide Michelin invariably gives two rosettes for its food . |
| 11 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 12 | But in the end Grey does venture the overall generalization that ‘ the experience in the Korean War demonstrated again the conflict between Dominion aspirations and increasing independence in policy formulation , and the British desire to maintain their status as a great power by drawing on the resources of the Dominions in ‘ friendly cooperation , ’ while at the same time arrogating to themselves the benefits which accrued from such association' ( p. 185 ) . |
| 13 | And if Liz does steer the fastest line , she 'll be keeping up a recent Oxford tradition . |
| 14 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 15 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |
| 16 | Contrary to some past reports , the electronic equipment aboard the HMS Sheffield did detect the approaching missile . |
| 17 | Swindon did see the good times . |
| 18 | Although NT does include the remote procedure call — and it is just the RPC — found in the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment , DCE remains an embryonic technology . |