Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 2 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 3 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 4 | How far judges consciously or unconsciously subserve the wider interests of governments is another and more important question . |
| 5 | But this is only available where the council or inspector has either misinterpreted the law or not followed the proper procedures . |
| 6 | It rejected the majority view in Attwood that , in employment cases , there existed a third consideration viz : it is for the court to decide in its discretion whether or not to treat the two restraints as separate or not . |
| 7 | Get the most out of your Lakes and Mountains holiday — give yourself the independence to visit other resorts , see famous landmarks or just find the best views . |
| 8 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 9 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 10 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 11 | This conservatism , however , often leads to conscious revolt , by artists with different purposes , who then either confuse or even omit the known signals . |
| 12 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 13 | After reflection , you can select the best version or even combine the best elements from two or more versions . |
| 14 | I would be content to keep the events locked away in my head , if only out of plain charity , or respect for those other characteristics of the person in question which to some extent balance or even explain the apparent iniquities of his behaviour . |
| 15 | I would be content to keep the events locked away in my head , if only out of plain charity , or respect for those other characteristics of the person in question which to some extent balance or even explain the apparent iniquities of his behaviour . ’ |
| 16 | In general even if it can be shown that one particular dichotic testing procedure can lead to an accurate prediction of the side of speech representation it does not logically follow that other procedures are equally valid or even tap the same processes . |
| 17 | The user is given the option of entering a record or simply entering the bibliographic details and classification number of each item to be ordered . |
| 18 | Stroll among streets lined with orange trees in Sorrento , take a horse-drawn ‘ carrozza ’ ride or simply admire the fabulous views . |
| 19 | His 1938 Tiger Moth seems to be busy all the hours God gives , taking tourists into the open-cockpit air , aerobatting those who want , or simply showing the local sights to the others , with white silk scarves fluttering around their helmeted and goggled heads . |
| 20 | It is thus fitting that nowhere has pop been so active as in that area so firmly delineated as ‘ private ’ by the dominant culture and woe betide those who , like politicians in sex scandals , mix the public and the private , or otherwise transgress the narrow boundaries — namely those of sexuality and gender . |
| 21 | In practice , though virtually every firm should have a written agreement or deed , a surprising number do not , and even where one is in existence it is frequently open to doubt as to whether its terms accurately or adequately reflect the actual practices of the partnership . |
| 22 | NOWHERE IN THE WORLD DOES McDONALD 'S USE OF BEEF THREATEN OR REMOTELY INVOLVE THE TROPICAL RAINFORESTS . |
| 23 | Not that I wanted to play chess nor even to frighten the good citizens of Budapest with a glimpse of my bare cadaver — my bathing trunks now also fell off me — but rather that the idea of a character — perhaps fleeing from something or someone — standing in those steaming baths moving queens and pawns , fitted perfectly into the outline I had . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't mind being criticised for my football nor indeed do the other players but personal abuse is something else . |
| 25 | But if the chance for a fair electoral system is lost at least we should have played to what strength there is in a single member system and properly recognised the individual communities of the U K. That chance has been missed without review and on that grounds I do n't believe this review should go through . |
| 26 | In the model the Arctic ozone hole appeared as a direct result of the changes in circulation induced by both doubling the amount of CO 2 and properly representing the radiative feedbacks of the evolving ozone distribution . |
| 27 | Unless Council has a change of heart , however , and both publishes details of the results of the consultation and properly addresses the legitimate concerns expressed , it may find the changes fail to win the backing of the people who matter — the nurses themselves . |
| 28 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
| 29 | We will be making regular reports to the AEA Audit Committee in the interim and vigorously pursuing the remaining actions as an integral part of our strategy for commercial success . ’ |
| 30 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |