Example sentences of "[vb base] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall ratings of 140 achieve the Ford Q101 award and scores of over 160 gain the prestigious Ford Q1 Award . |
| 2 | If the Tories lose the looming Christchurch by-election , a new Tory refrain of Major-Must-Go may reach fortissimo . |
| 3 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 4 | Did Daniel Ortega struggle so hard and so long , suffer seven years in jail , and defy the mighty US at such cost to his country , only to drive his jeep into the sunset ? |
| 5 | Up on the platform behind a moat of pot plants that would hold back a crowd of football hooligans , sit the Heid Yins flanked by lecterns with large , coloured bulbs . |
| 6 | Sir John 's request was a simple one : that Bridget Bostock raise the third Lady Pryce from the dead . |
| 7 | Increased working distance and greater depth of field make the new SZ series ideal for use with bonding or probing machines . |
| 8 | The sponsors make the English Cesarewitch winner Vintage Crop ( 10st 6lb ) second favourite at 9-1 behind Swinton Hurdle winner Bitofabanter ( 9st 13lb ) on 8-1 . |
| 9 | Obviously this works best if you have a colour monitor but even without one it is possible to produce colour overlays and designate the exact Pantone number for each which the conventional printer can then reproduce . |
| 10 | Some of the wilder allegations involve the colourful Mr De la Rosa , who resigned from Torras in May 1992 , with , he says , glowing praise from KIO for a job well done . |
| 11 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |
| 12 | In the UK , Sequent Computer Systems Ltd , Weybridge , Surrey , has won a £1.2m contract from Nuclear Electric — the UK 's state owned nuclear power generator — to supply 15 Symmetry 2000/200 systems , which replace the existing ICL mainframes . |
| 13 | Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth . |
| 14 | Hungary Hungary Youre the famous Honved And you come from Hungareeee . |
| 15 | If the turn takes the aircraft off the QDM , then re-centre the needle with the OBS , and fly the second QDM. 4 . |
| 16 | With these distinctions in mind , the following paragraphs summarise the relevant SFA Rules . |
| 17 | ‘ The ancient unbroken line ; the evil sorcerers who command the Dark Ireland . ’ |
| 18 | But few expect the incumbent Mr Dinkins to say much about slimming his own government . |
| 19 | We expect the final PPG Note to be compatible with existing guidance . |
| 20 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
| 21 | It is best viewed from the north side , from where the four peaks dwarf the tiny Loch Hakel nestling at its feet and the three corries , home to wild deer , embrace the morning sunlight . |
| 22 | should we , should we look at say the first Friday after the middle of January , something of that sort , I , I have n't got a calendar on my desk at the moment I 'm afraid , but erm |
| 23 | Every time I say what which story shall we have today , they say the Three Billy Goats Gruff . |
| 24 | They say the old Andrew will always have a home with them |
| 25 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Only you 're on the wrong bus , ’ he continued , ‘ you want the 800 Dalesbus — you 'll have to pick it up at Ilkley . ’ |
| 27 | The Illington-Lackford type of pottery occurs on 4 per cent of cemeteries and 15 per cent of settlements in East Anglia , strongly suggesting that it was being used for domestic , as well as funerary , use , and it is estimated that undecorated pottery made from the same fabrics outnumber the decorated Illington-Lackford pots by 15:1 . |
| 28 | The dip-shit little bastards deserve the fucking Micks turning them into mince ; saw the inside of an armoured car once ; been blown to buggery ; thrown a hundred feet into the air and then rolled all the way down a hill ; we took turns looking inside just to prove we were real men ; looked like the inside of a fucking slaughter-house … ’ |
| 29 | So the locomotive of change was already rolling powerfully when Lord Hanson made his unwelcome appearance on the share register the following May . |
| 30 | I switched on my computer and pissed around on it — and put the new PSB 's CD on in the background . |