Example sentences of "[coord] [be] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do n't know whether the Iraqi planes strayed off course or were deliberately challenging the flying ban , ’ he said on CBS television . |
| 2 | The suspicion is that they are too similar in style and are both playing the same game . |
| 3 | The Record Industry of America 's figures show that CD-A disc sales in the United States have remorselessly overhauled and eroded sales of vinyl recordings and are rapidly catching the booming cassette market . |
| 4 | Maccabi were Rosenthal 's first club and are now tracking the out-of-favour Liverpool striker . |
| 5 | For certain cases two or three judges of the Queen 's Bench sit together and are then called the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 6 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 7 | Some were already sprouting feathers and were busily preening the new growth , some were sleeping off their last feed of fish , while others were food-begging from every bird within reach . |
| 8 | Of these two approaches , the first has the virtue of identifying differences of ideology which were unquestionably important to some members of each right-wing party and were later to influence the internal politics of the Franco regime . |
| 9 | Fortunately they asked no more questions , and were still discussing the wonderful things I had seen , when Joe came in from the forge . |
| 10 | That it did n't cost England more dearly was due to the fact that the Scots simply had n't planned for such a generous return and were consequently playing the wrong strategy . |
| 11 | He thanked all who had helped to make Tencel a success — scientists working in the Coventry laboratories , people who developed the technology at Grimsby and those who built , started up and were now running the Mobile plant . |
| 12 | She then made a most offensive and denigrating remark about my practice , and is probably doing the same thing to everyone else here . ’ |
| 13 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 14 | The ambitious Spanish carrier is almost certain to make an offer for Peru 's state AeroPeru when it is ( eventually ) privatised , and is also eyeing the Dominican Republic 's airline , Dominicana . |
| 15 | The line was uprated to be capable of manufacturing a complete barrier five layer plastic tube and is currently supplying the free standing Colgate tube recently launched in the UK . ’ |
| 16 | Whilst with JM Liz has successfully completed the Institute of Personnel Management examinations and is currently taking the Open University Effective Manager course . |
| 17 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 18 | The Nikkei index has fallen by 60 per cent from its peak , and is now testing the 17,000 level . |
| 19 | The smash sequel has already taken the United States by storm and is now doing the same here . |
| 20 | He played only 95 full games for Arsenal and is now peddling the last of his talent at Exeter , where he 's rumoured to have fallen out with manager Alan Ball . |
| 21 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 22 | The tram was careering towards Dennistoun and was just passing the Eastern District Hospital . |
| 23 | The race became a handicap in 1843 and was finally named The Grand National Handicap Steeplechase in 1847 . |
| 24 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 25 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 26 | The small Irishman had just sprinkled the wooden floor with water to keep down the dust and was briskly sweeping the warped boards with a long-bristled broom when Patrick arrived . |
| 27 | He had worked in South America and was now exploring the Malay archipelago ( modern Indonesia ) . |
| 28 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |
| 29 | She looked petrified , but was blindly obeying the social workers , and silently appealed to her mother to help her . |