Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sang the same song for three-quarters of an hour , he 'd go sit on the drum riser , and come back to the mic and sing a verse , and then sit and stare into space and then come back again and again . |
| 2 | Kalchu went down to the stable and selected a he-goat . |
| 3 | Last year it took them three full days to clear the stable and make a heap of the black peat-like mal outside . |
| 4 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 5 | The apparent aim was to strengthen the Sunday Telegraph , which with a circulation of 667,000 was nearly half a million copies behind the daily and facing a fight for its life . |
| 6 | The process involves estate agents looking at a property from the outside and ticking a valuation banding on a form . |
| 7 | He or she is likely to be doing one or more of the following when making a request : |
| 8 | Now do the following and make a sketch for each question , showing the new position of the hands . |
| 9 | The strong sense of community between living and dead expressed in the frequent injunction in wills to pray for the soul of the deceased and to endow a priest for this specific purpose witnesses to a feeling for a purpose in existence beyond that of material well-being . |
| 10 | The bulk of his writing appeared in the 1870s but enjoyed a revival in the 1890s , mainly because of its open display of virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Polish attitudes . |
| 11 | Jean Collona also slunk through the Seventies and underlined a look that will for at least a year separate the old from the young . |
| 12 | Accolade — which received a similar award in 1984 — now has a total of three disabled people on its 14-strong staff and makes a positive effort to recruit handicapped people , according to the marketing manager , Irene McAlaney , who is one of the three and has a walking difficulty as a result of childhood polio . |
| 13 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 14 | The move to Harehills in the 1940s and buying a Morris was a new-found stability which came to them only in middle age . |
| 15 | Section four four onwards talks about erm the affecting the environmental and makes a point that will be we as officers have been with people on this and that is quite unusual er at this stage of the process . |
| 16 | In 1965 , the then Labour government introduced a scheme of reform requiring local authorities to take steps to dispense with the Eleven-plus and introduce a scheme of comprehensive education . |
| 17 | The well-being of the community — largely composed of dairy-farmers — as a whole was bound up in the extensive municipal common lands , the existence of which not merely helped the poor but put a limit on the land hunger of the richer peasants . |
| 18 | Motion three eight two calls upon the C E C to adopt a clear policy to resist the attacks on the poor and to launch a campaign to , to defend our people . |
| 19 | The company made about 50 cars in its first year of production , which rose to 150 by the end of the 1970s and reached a peak of 800 three years ago . |
| 20 | Freud acknowledges the unconscious and provides a means of exploring it and of living with it . |
| 21 | ‘ The Women 's Group provided a special lunch for the elderly and established a club for the elderly and the unemployed in the church hall . ’ |
| 22 | The Sisters also visit the elderly and provide a place of quiet for numerous people inside and outside the Parish . |
| 23 | Librarianship textbooks sometimes draw a distinction between ‘ select bibliographies ’ and ‘ guides to the literature ’ , defining the latter as providing a discussion of the structure of the subject literature and bibliographical examples , rather than a full set of references . |
| 24 | It is not the healthy that need a doctor , but the sick ; I did not come to invite virtuous people , but sinners ( Mark 2:17 ) . |
| 25 | We have to stop the bleeding and get a win . |
| 26 | We went in the Gra Grand just done the lounge at the Grand and when we had our first car and I went round to see mother and I said come on , we 'll go up to the , take you up to the Grand and have a drink . |
| 27 | This Partnership will be charged with drawing up specific goals for the Compact and planning a structure to implement their achievement . |
| 28 | The third moment measures the symmetry of the distribution about the mean and yields a value which is the cube of the skewness : |
| 29 | dad 's bike is exactly the same but has a 23in frame and 26in wheels and comes in blue and white . |
| 30 | Connecting a plotter to a computer is generally just the same as connecting a printer , at least in terms of the interface . |