Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The insistence on the supremacy of the political has become a cliché of recent thinking . |
| 2 | The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that . |
| 3 | Their prospects were hopeless because the British had developed a command of the sea that was much more effective than anything seen in earlier wars . |
| 4 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 5 | It 's a tough market for the British to try to take a slice of . |
| 6 | Voltaire wrote satirically about the British arranging to shoot an admiral to encourage the others , but probably most Englishmen at the time would have taken the idea seriously . |
| 7 | ‘ The Sex Pistols ’ , he wrote , ‘ are very New York and it 's nice to see that the British have produced a band capable of producing the atmosphere created by the New York Dolls and their many imitators , even though it might be too late … ’ |
| 8 | The most reasonable assumption was that the French had pushed a cavalry raid across the frontier . |
| 9 | The French have invented a perfume spray , mostly lemon , which stops dogs barking . |
| 10 | The Six agreed to draft a treaty on these lines , but as a compromise de Gaulle was asked to accept that the Atlantic alliance with America should be safeguarded and that ‘ Community co-operation ’ on economic issues in the EEC should continue to be developed . |
| 11 | In early 1964 , however , relations worsened again when the Six failed to adopt a scheme , known as the ‘ Mansholt Plan ’ to advance more rapidly on the CAP . |
| 12 | Sometimes the measure would be evidence that the Japanese had changed a regulation ; sometimes that the number of distributors of foreign goods had grown , or the rate of acceptance of foreign bids for contracts . |
| 13 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 14 | The effect is that even if the liability remains in full the accused has secured a remission of it . |
| 15 | Sir Robert ruled that it did not have credibility and dismissed the charges without any of the accused having to present a defence . |
| 16 | Moi also ordered a halt to an inquiry which began in October 1990 and instructed the three judges to submit a report to him before the end of January 1992 . |
| 17 | The pain in my stomach was because the swelling had caused a nerve to be trapped . |
| 18 | Although the many pages of Mayhew are positively crammed with evidence that the poor had created a culture of their own , he seems none the less to share Godwin 's view of art ‘ as a social bridge of no ordinary size and strength ’ . |
| 19 | While I fully accept that the poor have become a cause by which many politicians and intellectuals can further their personal ambitions , I do nevertheless find that the Hayekian case is deficient . |
| 20 | It is also believed that none of the injured has made a complaint to the police . |
| 21 | The latter had formed a Master Printers " Association in 1846 , with the explicit aim of keeping out unionists and outlawing strikers . |
| 22 | Once a case has reached the magistrates ' court , responsibility for granting or refusing bail becomes a matter for the court itself , but only after hearing representations from the Crown Prosecution Service if the latter decides to oppose a bail application . |
| 23 | The latter has become a form of economic drip-feed of dubious value to the patient , although it has maintained economic activity at a higher level than would otherwise be the case . |
| 24 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 25 | The '80s have seen a return to a more stable market , with demand and supply in a measure of equilibrium . |
| 26 | A few weeks before he left Iran , the Shah had asked one of the most respected members of the opposition that he had crushed in the fifties to try to form a government . |
| 27 | When the legislature convened in October , one of the those dismissed moved a vote of no confidence which was defeated by 15 votes to five . |
| 28 | A repurchase agreement provides a means for the short to lend money to the futures market : the short agrees to buy a bond with a provision to sell it back to the market at a predetermined price and to receive a rate of interest , the repo rate . |
| 29 | Simultaneously , the eighties have witnessed a shift from systems-oriented work to the capacity of the sensorium to process and transform data — — perception as apparatus — a shift towards virtuality and simulation typified by the video work of Thierry Kuntzel . |
| 30 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |