Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lighting and water movement are also important to feeding because they influence the way many relatively-immobile sessile marine invertebrates gain their nutritional requirements . |
| 2 | It is through the ‘ windows ’ that survive that we can glean the evidence necessary to permit environmental reconstruction and , necessarily , the amount of evidence surviving in a particular area will depend upon the age of the landscape and the subsequent changes to which the landscape has been subjected . |
| 3 | Well round near us they terrorized an eighty three year old lady er near us and er it was a , I met the man next door and his wife and they were the ones that got the police because he said they 'd got her furniture out on the pavement to with a doodah up there . |
| 4 | Imperial 's George Whalley and Tuscan 's Ken Cox , and their wives , met the director general of the BSC James Tye , and comedian and musician Roy Castle , who sent a special greetings message to everyone at Wedgwood . |
| 5 | The days she met the wind full on , something awful happened as soon as she got home . |
| 6 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |
| 7 | Carol Clark met the psychologist 6 years ago . |
| 8 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 9 | As she watched he draped the shirt next to hers by the fire before squatting down opposite her . |
| 10 | Moments later , home defender Steve Breach slipped up in the box and allowed Parvin time to round the ‘ keeper and cross to Tony Thurgood , but the Bordon man , less than a yard out , spooned the ball wide and sank to his knees in incredulity . |
| 11 | The Belfast Wolfe Tone Society ‘ had always maintained a sturdy independence , but somehow lacked the interconnection necessary to become an effective ideas forum . |
| 12 | To be sure , he lacked the background appropriate to a british prime minister and even in American terms his credentials were open to question . |
| 13 | This 16-valve unit fits the Family II block in all 1.6 , 1.8 and two-litre forms . |
| 14 | We have just occupied Vienna ; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago . |
| 15 | A succession of economic crises had limited the money available for new social policies . |
| 16 | Michael Middleton might argue ‘ that Minton is aware of man , … in relation to nature , to his self-constructed civilisation , to the passing moment , ’ but his failure to establish for his figures a setting that is anything more than a backcloth , limited the humanism inherent in his work , as well as its social or political relevance . |
| 17 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 18 | Since then we have witnessed the development first of all of the Keynesian view of the importance of money , followed by the monetarist view which is at odds with the former and is closely associated with the original quantity theory . |
| 19 | It is designed to accommodate the Exotox 60 , 70 or 75 and MiniGas multi-gas monitors which give protection against up to five gases ( oxygen , flammable and toxic gases ) and also monitor temperature and relative humidity . |
| 20 | I have travelled the region many times and always with enjoyment , but never with the eager anticipation of journeys in the north . |
| 21 | By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back , says the Jockey Club , the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry . |
| 22 | They crush their victim in their pincers , but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry . |
| 23 | YVONNE Murray has Mary Decker 's eight-year-old record of 5min 34.8sec in her sights as she tackles the rarely-run 2,000 metres at the star-studded TSB International in Birmingham today . |
| 24 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 25 | The landowner could terminate the tenancy at his pleasure , but , given the nature of farming , at pleasure would normally mean giving notice on certain days of the year , and allowing the tenant six months , principally in order to gather such crops as he may have planted . |
| 26 | The vendor will resist allowing the purchaser such an option . |
| 27 | Sharing the humanist outlook of the continental reformer , Desiderius Erasmus , they were in favour of allowing the laity easy access to English translations of the Bible , placing a greater emphasis on preaching , and instituting simplified forms of worship , stripped of superstitious practices such as the worship of relics and images . |
| 28 | a paper size in the series of ISO international paper sizes slightly larger than the A series allowing the printer extra space to bleed . |
| 29 | According to Jung , a simpler nature works on a more complicated one ‘ like a room that is too small ’ , not allowing the partner enough space . |
| 30 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |