Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does the Award mean to the winning team ? |
| 2 | If an Act is challenged on the basis that there have been procedural defects during its passage through Parliament , will the courts look behind the formal words of enactment and inquire whether the requirements of the common law have been satisfied ? |
| 3 | Only later , on the negative or the print , would the photographer notice for the first time , say , a sundial on a distant lawn . |
| 4 | So far did the experience lie beyond the normal province of time , she could not later tell whether it lasted for moments only or extended into hours . |
| 5 | Time to let the readers loose on the FESTIVE CAPTION CONTEST . |
| 6 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 7 | NOW that England and Scotland are getting ready for the World Cup finals , the question on the lips of two rejoicing nations is : ‘ What will the lads wear for the big date in Italy ? ’ |
| 8 | They heard the car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the track behind the boathouse , leaving a faint cloud of blue smoke drifting around the corner . |
| 9 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 11 | What should the Mayor write to the Pied Piper ? |
| 12 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 13 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 14 | The statement also opposed " the current suspect moves , led by the USA , to make the Arabs surrender to the Zionist entity through what the USA calls peace " . |
| 15 | The peak of the student movement , in Europe as well as in the US , was reached in 1968 , marked most dramatically by the May revolt of the French students , which was supported briefly by a large part of the working-class movement . |
| 16 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 17 | I retaliated with detailed instructions on how to bowl off-breaks to left-handers on a drying pitch , and we eventually declared a truce as we watched the sun sink across the oil-storage tanks beyond the creek . |
| 18 | He watched the sun rise over the snowy fields , and on his way home he met the postman , who handed him a letter . |
| 19 | Does the gaze fall on the impaired body or on social barriers ? |
| 20 | It will be his third visit to the country as part of an international group helping the ANC adapt to the democratic process . |
| 21 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 22 | How far do the errors interfere with the original meaning ? |
| 23 | " Increment descriptor " makes the descriptor refer to the next character in the string . |
| 24 | Fourthly , what control can the IMF exercise over the proper use and distribution of aid ? |
| 25 | Why did the crisis occur in the first place ? |
| 26 | I do n't know anything about Wallaces goal even though I heard the match report on the 12:00 A.M. BBC 5 sports news . |
| 27 | And with feelings too complex to itemise , he watched the curtain rise on the first official London performance of The Hooded Owl . |
| 28 | This will ensure that we help the Group come through the worse recession in our industry for many years , and that we are in place and able to contribute to the future upturn in the market . |
| 29 | As a manager chairing the meeting you may focus your energies on helping the group deal with the intellectual side of its job , ie the task in hand . |
| 30 | ‘ But I like the Fontana dei Fiumi best , ’ Caroline admitted as they watched the water stream from the carved figures that represented the rivers of four continents . |