Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun] [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was well satisfied ; I had beaten what I considered to be a bogey track for me , determined not to let either the track or the stadium get the better of me . |
| 2 | ‘ It differs in that it lacks the double characteristic of agape — the acceptance of the unacceptable , or the movement form the highest to the lowest , and , at the same time , the will to transform individual as well as social structures . ’ |
| 3 | Neither Africa nor the donors carry the prime responsibility for this . |
| 4 | Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas have the additional problem of being contained in an archipelago of sparsely populated islands , with literally dozens of remote airstrips and hundreds of miles of expensive-to-patrol coastline , situated directly on the Colombia to Florida flight path and shipping channels . |
| 5 | and the ex-patriots receive the same services as Kuwaitis . |
| 6 | They ran into bad weather and the turbulence upset the youngest Brückner child . |
| 7 | The humus-iron podzols developed in these readily-leached drifts have been cultivated in many localities and the profiles resemble the brown forest soils , though a sharp change from the A horizon to the brighter B horizon is often evident and iron pans are present in some soil profiles , at the top of the indurated layer . |
| 8 | ‘ The more witnesses come forward and the descriptions remain the same , the more I am now convinced that the abductors must have caused his death , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Trains called The Atlantic and The Ocean make the 21-hour trip from Halifax to connect with The Canadian at Montreal . |
| 10 | As firms , their clients and the public feel the full effect of the Institute 's efforts to raise standards , public confidence in the Institute as regulator will increase . |
| 11 | What good will just the teachings of Jesus and the church do the poor tramp sitting outside the church ? |
| 12 | The table top and the bottle provide the main compositional accents , while the remainder of the surface is broken down in secondary vertical and horizontal sections . |
| 13 | ‘ Catterick will soon be the biggest garrison in the country , with increased military movements , and the Army share the same concerns . |
| 14 | We have got the fastest rising unemployment anywhere in Europe and the figures destroy the last vestiges of credibility for the Conservatives on the economy . ’ |
| 15 | many special mountain sections and night drives , and the routes cover the whole island . |
| 16 | " How did he and the Lab take the new appointment ? " |
| 17 | would it be possible for me to pay my half of that and the s pay the other half because I 'm not i it it 's really started to worry me and concern me a lot |
| 18 | Do the parents and the school share the same expectations about discipline , teaching methods and curriculum content ? |
| 19 | With telephone lines no sooner laid than torn up by shellfire , and the runner become the sole means of communication at Verdun , the most frequently heard order at any HQ was ‘ send two runners ’ . |
| 20 | Both the BIE and the NEBE use the same registration number that is issued following acceptance of the student by the BIE as a Registered Student/Candidate . |
| 21 | In former times George 's Lane , starting close by the church , toll-house and former inn and running down to the river , was the village 's main link with the outside world and the river Lynher the main artery for trade and industry . |
| 22 | This chapter deals principally with the situation where the husband and the wife hold the matrimonial home in their joint names ( whether as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common ) and , as a result of property adjustments , the husband 's interest in the home is conveyed or transferred to the wife 's new husband or friend . |
| 23 | According to a series of studies the group has published , Germany and the UK remain the largest two markets , growing by 16% and 32% respectively . |
| 24 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 25 | Drivers are noted egotists and pride themselves on being hard men who are in a given place to race and the devil take the hindmost . |
| 26 | Not just each of for himsel' and the devil tak the hin'most . |
| 27 | The traditional theory [ of employment ] maintains , in short , that the wage bargains between the entrepreneurs and the workers determine the real wage ; so that , assuming free competition amongst employers and no restrictive combinations amongst workers , the latter can , if they wish , bring their real wages into conformity with the marginal disutility of employment offered by the employers at that wage . |
| 28 | At the end of the day , she should be satisfied with her undertaking and the manager acknowledge the likely consequences . |
| 29 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 30 | If the end of the line is fixed and the angles remain the same , then the conclusion can be made that a straight line links the various points . |