Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 2 | He was Harping on the theme that the British had thrown out the Qajar dynasty , had brought in his father and had thrown his father out . |
| 3 | Once the French had worked out the tactic , it gave them a chance to run the ball back at us . |
| 4 | He was glad that the French had driven back the invading foreign armies , but this was no real comfort to the conflict in his mind . |
| 5 | So far a quarter of Britain 's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material . |
| 6 | Thousands perished , but the Japanese wished to play down the extent of the atrocities committed by their soldiers . |
| 7 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 8 | The latter phrase , used in the 1991 act setting up the agency , enshrines the word " sustainable " in UK legislation for the first time . |
| 9 | The latter tend to swallow up the former . ’ |
| 10 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 11 | The oppressed begin to take on the view of the oppressor and in our example above , would begin to feel that their depression is a personal failure . |