Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rising sun slowly turns the drab greys and dull browns of the mountains to patches of pale gold and dusty pinks . |
| 2 | The church 's opposition to mechanical and chemical contraception and to abortion , greatly encourages the large families that are so characteristic of the region . |
| 3 | The study , funded by the Department of Health , offers insight into the spread of HIV and Aids , but while doing so repeats the age-old cliches and stereotypical ideas relating to male and female sexuality : namely , that men do it more than women . |
| 4 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 5 | it mostly concerns the small details and seemingly unimportant events which make up my experience as a woman and a mother . |
| 6 | The leader still has the same weaknesses and strengths as any other man and it is as well to study and know them . |
| 7 | ( W ) is a women 's model , which usually has the same features but is built on a narrower last . |
| 8 | ( He still possesses the tattered paperbacks that inspired him as a trainee BP manager in the 1950s — Dale Carnegie 's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Lord Beaverbrook 's folksy handbook to success , Do n't Trust to Luck . ) |
| 9 | It both transcends the self-evident imperfections and problems of human existence and provides the means of so living with them that they can be transformed . |
| 10 | They are very sensitive to cold air , as much as in Nux vomica which also has the aching bones and wants to be covered and in a hot room . |
| 11 | Additionally , an aggressive horse has the courage and determination to be a top performance horse , if he also has the physical capabilities and the motivation . |
| 12 | The projected scheme of capping , which limits any council tax increase to £180 odd over the poll tax both favours the higher bands and are applied without any regard to need . |
| 13 | This arrangement has helped to reduce the potential oppressiveness of the resulting internal corridor because the northern ‘ strip ’ of service rooms also accommodates the two staircases that serve the two publicly accessible upper floors of the building and natural light spills into the ends of the corridor through the glazed enclosures of these features , reducing the room 's apparent length . |
| 14 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 15 | The project urgently requires the following items before the aircraft can be considered for flight : two front undercarriage tyres ( 950 × 12 ) port and starboard ; one tailwheel tyre 945 × 12 ; two Graviner fire bottles No 15 1136/E/L ; two head supports No 12Z 5850 and two pilot seats ( port and starboard ) 1–2 N 899 . |
| 16 | The second distalmost papillae is the largest and partly overlies the distalmost papillae when viewed from the ventral side . |
| 17 | Yeah well he probably does the soft covers and what not |
| 18 | This briefing also discusses the important questions that alternative suppliers should be asked both about products and integration into the IBM environment . |
| 19 | The British government agreed to that and it 's that matter that now causes the present difficulties and uncertainties . |
| 20 | What really gives the Black Crowes that extra edge live is the fact that Chris Robinson is a born performer . |
| 21 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 22 | The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time . |
| 23 | With the slower speeds the qualifying heats as well as the race itself were almost injury-free this year . |
| 24 | Hilton here formulates the same perceptions that govern Rolle 's understanding of the role of meditations on the Passion when he says : In fact Hilton gives no very precise rules about meditation itself because he is aware that it relates intimately to each individual 's unique personality and gifts . |
| 25 | He rightly draws attention to the fact that it is not necessarily always one side that sometimes breaches the watchkeeping agreements and regulations . |
| 26 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
| 27 | Note that here A is , in general , not symmetric ; however , it evidently possesses the same eigenvalues as the system ( 2.10.1.2 ) . |
| 28 | When we first cloned the human globin genes we realised that every cloned gene is person-specific , and therefore contains the particular sequences that instruct most of the features which we inherit and that determine our individuality . |
| 29 | The disadvantage of product departmentation is that it creates a new form of management and therefore increases the overhead costs and managerial complexity of the organisation . |