Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't huddling because of the trying to ease the pain a bit ? |
| 2 | The Spanish opposed the introduction of majority voting in the Council of Ministers on environmental laws unless a special fund was set up to help poorer countries meet EC standards . |
| 3 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 4 | The Spanish think the Community should aim for a common defence policy . |
| 5 | ‘ For instance , there was one little overdubbing room in Air studios which was tiny — it was about as big as an armchair — but we used to put the AC30 in there and put the mic facing the window and get this amazing sound . |
| 6 | On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day . |
| 7 | And — have I got the right to take the risk ? ’ |
| 8 | The close correspondence of diversity increase with rise of sea level in the Cambrian suggests the possibility of a causal correlation ( Brasier , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 10 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 11 | From Stop Your Fussin , with a subtle reggae beat to the haunting Where 's The Ocean and finally the memorable Let The Rain Come Down , insinuating animation and acquiescence from a failed relationship , the album is tremendously good and truely ambitious . |
| 12 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 13 | In 1548 , therefore , there was no reason for the Scots to fear the alienation of their queen . |
| 14 | Under ERM strong currency nations were forced to help the weak to re-establish the equilibrium of the system , although large-scale fluctuations could lead to an alteration of the ‘ central rate ’ . |
| 15 | The rich receive the bulk of SERPS pay-outs . |
| 16 | Neil McKendrick has said of his " consumer revolution " that the rich led the way in the 1760s and 1770s with an " orgy of spending " on their magnificent houses . |
| 17 | Richard Baxter observed the truth of our Lord 's teaching that it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven , but the poor received the Gospel gladly . |
| 18 | Narrow ideas about the feminine inform the film , as do male fears about powerful women . |
| 19 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 20 | Similarly , the unemployed found the focus of their social circle also becoming centred on heroin . |
| 21 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 22 | But the primary values are those of the signifier , and the writerly allows the reader to ‘ function himself , to gain access to the magic of the signifier , to the pleasure of writing ’ ( p. 4 ) . |
| 23 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 24 | The English thought the 25-year-old had played out of his skin . |
| 25 | An alternative suggests that as the English made the return crossing , the bridge became overloaded , and as the barges sank many were drowned . |
| 26 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 27 | The English saw the coronation of Charles VII at Reims as a considerable threat to their authority . |
| 28 | In the following summer the English reoccupied the border counties and Dumfriesshire , and for the next ten years the principal concern of the Scots became the recovery of their king and their lost territory . |
| 29 | The English had the advantage of a dominating position and they subjected the Scots to a devastating hail of arrows as they struggled up the slope to engage the English forces . |
| 30 | On 8 May 1429 the English abandoned the siege ; France , through Joan , had won a great moral victory . |