Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , France did have some strong incentives to work with the other five . |
| 2 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 3 | The second point is that of course as we accept into the role of opposition indeed to give these alternative proposals , give this particulary case to come within the government guidelines . |
| 4 | indeed , the reader will need some professional commitment to get through the monotonous rhythm of the prose , and the technical sophistication of the language . |
| 5 | Thus an anti-communist accord was preserved in the face of one of the very few political disagreements to intrude on the fun at drinks ' time . |
| 6 | The forecast tax charge for the year is thirty four per cent which is below last year 's rate of thirty five and we expect this low rate to continue in the future . |
| 7 | The inadequacies of this egalitarian approach lead some lesbian psychologists to work outside the Division of the Psychology of Women and the AWP , in feminist and lesbian feminist organizations which grant sexuality more significance . |
| 8 | It may suit some English commentators to think of the IRA as only a terrorist force rather than the Irish Republican Army because the acronym represents the IRA as shadowy forces of savagery and evil , which by definition it is difficult for the civilised good to understand . |
| 9 | The official added : ‘ There 's another 12 months to run on the ITV 's domestic deal and then it 's up for grabs . |
| 10 | Cronenberg 's crazed , controversial , body-rebelling movie had some salient points to make about the video nasty furore then current , but scenes like the one where Deborah Harry stubbed a cigarette out on her breast got all the attention . |
| 11 | The boldest and the best way to take is directly to the east , because there are some splendid sights to see in the valley of Larrau and beyond . |
| 12 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 13 | During an earlier panic about garotting robberies and stabbing incidents in 1856 , The Times had enjoyed the good fortune actually to discover some real foreigners to blame for the outrages , pointing the accusing finger at ‘ men who have been discharged from the foreign legions ’ . |
| 14 | Nathan took my keys , brought the first aid kit from the car , and broke open some antiseptic wipes to attend to the cut . |
| 15 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 16 | It is a matter of history that as the 1980s drew to a close , a few extra HSTs to cope with the unprecedented levels of business by now on offer would have been very welcome . |
| 17 | All Nettwork artists seem to take the idea of ‘ sparse ’ to new and distant boundaries , but David has replaced those bleeps with a mutant robot voice ordering some lucky conscripts to report to the floor . |
| 18 | Heather must have had some compelling reason to follow in the direction they led , yet what that reason might be he was no nearer discovering . |
| 19 | Autumn is an excellent time for this kind of construction work , when the weather is still mild enough to work outdoors in comfort , and there are relatively few urgent jobs to do in the garden . |
| 20 | He does n't move , then suddenly his head gives a small jerk forward and his eyes buck wide open , the way they always used to when he 'd make some incoherent claim to lineage to the gods . |
| 21 | If we are not going to appeal to the anthropic principle , we need some unifying theory to account for the initial conditions of the universe and the values of the various physical parameters . |
| 22 | I had this brilliant idea to blend into the scenery just so I could keep an eye on you . |
| 23 | If evidence of this deep desire to believe in the supernatural were needed , it is amply available in Randi 's books . |
| 24 | Staff at the Gloucester Museum now need to raise two and a half thousand pounds to pay for the reconstruction . |
| 25 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 26 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 27 | Only the constant clicking of the camera shutters of the army of photographers and the intermittent bursts of rapturous applause broke the expectant hush that January afternoon , for Yves Saint Laurent is one of the few important couturiers to show in the old manner , with no mood-setting background music . |
| 28 | Some important points to consider in the process of drawing up such an engagement contract are as follows : |
| 29 | Another important feature to note about the ideology of the Tory Reaction is that it was as fiercely anti-Catholic as it was anti-Nonconformist . |
| 30 | In the meanwhile , do you think you could persuade a few more salmon to get into the rivers around your neck of the woods by the time next season opens ? |