Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and I had a lot of er experience with with training dogs and all that for hunting the old foxes and all that . |
| 2 | She told a conference organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh that such a conclusion would not win universal acclaim and would be seen by some as lowering the moral tone of the country . |
| 3 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 4 | As some centres off the Diploma part-time over three years , some of thosestarting the initial course in 1990 will only complete in 1993 . |
| 5 | While the do-goody liberals and the big stick brigade waste their time accusing one another of misunderstanding the criminal mind and argue over the chicken and egg issue of crime and social conditions , the prisons are packed with people who are certainly being punished , but nothing much beyond that . |
| 6 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 7 | When you are doing small jobs , such as inserting a tee junction into a pipe , you may be able to do this without draining the whole system down . |
| 8 | Handrails fixed directly to the wall can be most easily refixed securely with window frame fixings , as you can do this without removing the whole rail . |
| 9 | A few strategic blows with a hammer will achieve this without shattering the whole thing , but it 's prudent to first bail out as much water as possible from the trap . |
| 10 | Radcliffe-Brown , however , elegantly shows us how we can make sense of all this without invoking the tenuous spectre of an earlier ‘ matriarchal ’ stage which he points out would actually have quite the opposite influence . |
| 11 | They have managed to do this without losing the original character of the building ; marble fireplaces , Victorian and Georgian chests , a collection of clocks and a grand piano which has been in the house since the turn of the century , all seem to be very much at home here . |
| 12 | Two approaches were used for ordering single-copy hybridisation probes : one was based on the simulated annealing algorithm to order all probes , and another on inferring the minimum-spanning subset of the probes using a heuristic filtering procedure . |
| 13 | He will do this by teaching the right kind of deeds , speech and thought , the right way of living , even the right places to visit or live in . |
| 14 | We approach this by considering the elementary operations which are commonly used in the condensation of determinants . |
| 15 | All kinds of information informs my attitudes , but I need to verify this by inspecting the real thing very carefully . |
| 16 | Both suggest that the brain does this by monitoring the statistical properties of activity . |
| 17 | Any sceptic can prove this by drawing the famous ley running south from Stonehenge through Old Sarum , Salisbury Cathedral , Clearbury Ring and Frankenbury Camp ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 18 | They do this by tapping the vast resource of surplus old and new books in the UK . |
| 19 | The royal commission 's report countered this by reasserting the fundamental difference between occasional soliciting by a man ( ‘ addressed to a woman who does not resent it ’ ) and the prostitute 's immoral business , which was offensive to public decency . |
| 20 | One could try to account for this by invoking the anthropic principle , but grand unified theories actually provide a possible mechanism for explaining the imbalance . |
| 21 | I have chosen to do this by reviewing the present position of the study of Romano-British coarse pottery , some of the processes by which it has been reached , the unsatisfactory nature of our present state of knowledge , and some thoughts directed towards the future . |
| 22 | They did this by adopting the Jamaican music which the black communities in South East London had brought from their homeland and which was the popular music of the Rude Boys . |
| 23 | She followed this by joining the Royal Shakespeare Company on tour playing Juliet and later repeating this performance in the Other Place at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 24 | They do this by examining the traditional psychology of sex differences , and the traditional psychology of women . |
| 25 | We have supported this by increasing the public funding of the arts , by 60 per cent in real terms since 1979 , and introducing new incentives to personal giving . |
| 26 | An attempt could be made to reverse this by increasing the dietary intake of vitamin C , but we have shown in a region of Venezuela with a high incidence of gastric cancer that oral vitamin C supplementation alone is insufficient to increase gastric juice ascorbate concentrations in the presence of H pylori infection . |
| 27 | We can do this by making the indicated pivot in the row 03-row of P1/LP2 and the result is P1/LP3 . |
| 28 | We can overcome this by employing the simultaneous absorption of two photons or by using a molecular compound containing the element of interest , although both these methods have certain drawbacks . |
| 29 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 30 | She may even do this by denying the bad experiences in her marriage to herself and to others , remembering only the good times , however few they were , and concentrating her thoughts on the positive aspects of her husband 's personality . |