Example sentences of "[verb] reach the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we prepared for the day in the early dawn , with the birds tuning up outside our African ‘ rondavel ’ hut , we both felt impelled to reach the tough core of the Right-wing settlers , Smith 's Rhodesia Front . |
| 2 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 3 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 4 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 5 | The instructions tell you not to remove the growing tip until the tree has reached the final size you require , do I presume I 'm stuck with a 2½ ft tall tree ? |
| 6 | The RAF Squadron which claims to have accidently dropped the first bomb on Nazi Germany , has reached the final day in its long history . |
| 7 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 8 | I think this will be the sixth time of my career that a promotion or relegation issue has reached the final day . |
| 9 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
| 10 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 11 | Ocean currents are important for other coastal plants such as some mangroves ( though none of these has reached the isolated archipelago of Hawaii ) , while seeds of the forest lianes , Entada ( Leguminosae ) , are washed even as far as Europe . |
| 12 | Now Vic has reached the last traffic lights before the system of tunnels and flyovers that will conduct him without further interruption through the centre of the city . |
| 13 | No doubt we shall find out , but what seems to be true of this moment — 1989 , when photography has reached the 150 year point — is that many different kinds of photographic image-making co-exist and ore of equal validity . |
| 14 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 15 | ‘ On the day when unemployment has reached the tragic total of three million , will you publicly repudiate this heartless approach ? ’ |
| 16 | At present , once an employee has reached the top band of his grade , performance points can take a Unified Grade 7 employee 's pay up to £34,667 . |
| 17 | Nothing in the system tells the operator when he has reached the desired temperature ; he can influence the temperature but he has no direct means of knowing the result . |
| 18 | The Smart Rope changes colour permanently after any section has reached the safe limit for fall stress . |
| 19 | Scudamore has reached the half century in 12 fewer days than during last season 's fantastic voyage into jumping history . |
| 20 | But bids failed to reach the reserve price of two hundred pounds . |
| 21 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 22 | These figures are for those researchers actually finishing their work and submitting a successful thesis , and they do not include those who failed to complete their research , or who failed to reach the required standard for the granting of the Ph D degree . |
| 23 | His original aim was to study medicine but he narrowly failed to reach the required A-level grades . |
| 24 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 25 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that we failed to reach the second round is a blow in many ways and I am so disappointed for everybody . ’ |
| 28 | The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level . |
| 29 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 30 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |