Example sentences of "the [adj] and [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a former winner at Dornoch ( 1985 ) , where nobody took him beyond the 16th green , Garth has the right credentials for a marathon week 's work — sound legs and wind , a good nerve , great concentration , and all the shots for a course that will test the strong and mock the timid . |
| 2 | To help the helpless and feed the hungry is to see God . |
| 3 | The only decent fork in history was Mortens Fork , used to toast the rich and prod the poor on behalf of that robbin' hood , Henry Llewellyn Tudor VII . |
| 4 | Mrs Major 's party set off for the northern half of the seat to goad the faithful and stir the idle while Mr Major toured the south . |
| 5 | Macarthy , the defence lawyer , found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable . |
| 6 | A township seemingly unaffected by Parliamentary influence , with Roman Catholics worshipping openly with , perhaps a despairing vicar trying , perhaps half-heartedly , to depress the old and infiltrate the Anglican requirements possibly to a largely unwilling ( or might they have been uncaring ? ) flock . |
| 7 | Draw sketches of the following and name the shaded angles . |
| 8 | The government may again do the unthinkable and push the 1989 budget through the Diet without the blessing of the opposition . |
| 9 | Move the second transfer tool from the right to the left and slide the three stitches from the right tool into the empty needle hooks at left . |
| 10 | I would choose a 2x1 rib for this then , when the rib has been knitted , rack one turn to the left and transfer the right needle of each back bed pair to the empty needle on the front bed . |
| 11 | Coming to it from below like this , from the direction of Oloron or from Laruns , it is a sound idea to leave the main road to the left and inspect the modest countryside in which the estimable wines of Jurançon are made . |
| 12 | A NEW rise in prescription charges would tax the sick and punish the poor , Labour health spokeswoman Dawn Primarolo said . |
| 13 | When the plague struck Carthage in 252 , Bishop Cyprian sent his people out to nurse the sick and bury the dead . |
| 14 | You can feed the hungry and comfort the oppressed and visit the sick and bury the dead . |
| 15 | For them class is the thing which will unify the diverse and end the polyphonic ethno-babble in the new municipal Tower of Babel . |
| 16 | Yet these are the lice and the slugs who sit in judgement on me , the trendy , shallow-minded , illiterate time-servers , the Giffords of our time , who can destroy reputations , dishearten the innovators , bully the imaginative , slander the pure , cheat the innocent , mock the talented and sully the cleanest of spirits . |
| 17 | ‘ Be always ready , according to your power to relieve the poor and help the distressed … ’ is a quote from The Rules for the Conduct of Life , a copy of which is given to all new Freemen — or perhaps it should now be Freepersons . |
| 18 | They are members of a most valuable organisation which has two main tasks — to care for the poor and visit the lonely . |
| 19 | You can feed the hungry and comfort the oppressed and visit the sick and bury the dead . |
| 20 | ‘ Before I came , ’ Catherine said , ‘ I had thought of your function in biblical terms — to feed the hungry and succour the needy . |
| 21 | Indeed , they could have been altered if the Government had not wasted their bargaining power in attempts to defend the indefensible , attack the trivial and obtain the illusory . |
| 22 | He will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable . |
| 23 | We could go even further in the drive to influence the influential and make the global links for world leaders . |
| 24 | You can feed the hungry and comfort the oppressed and visit the sick and bury the dead . |
| 25 | Is it a by-product of our musical inventiveness , this perpetual desire to applaud the new and deride the old ? |