Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To yank me clear takes the sudden , strong spine |
| 2 | Nothing better illustrates the social balance in the party and the fierce independence of the local parties than the argument about the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 3 | M· Alu I also contains the largest known variable |
| 4 | Seamus should be told to put those right before someone else does the same thing . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm glad someone else thinks the same way ’ . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 7 | Thus , once the defendant has discovered the falsity of his brochure , he is liable to commit an offence each time someone subsequently reads the uncorrected brochure . |
| 8 | In a way which strikingly presages the modern socialist welfare-state , divine kings became not only tyrants , but also providers and protectors of their people . |
| 9 | It is this alarming development which most concerns the National Amenity Societies represented in this report . |
| 10 | The squalor produced by prison overcrowding is perhaps the issue which most scandalizes the public conscience , but there are others . |
| 11 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 12 | Abandoned to drink from her cup of sorrow , the asylum superintendents would have marked the baby as ‘ an accidental addition which wholly unbalances the tottering mind ’ . |
| 13 | An agreement reached in the early Forties between Bavaria and the family , which effectively enshrines the strict historic laws of entail ( Fideicommiss ) , limits her in what she can dispose of : archives , libraries , and , to an uncertain extent , the furnishings and works of art intrinsic to the family seat , are all protected . |
| 14 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 15 | The idea that society is entitled to take whatever steps may be considered necessary to ensure that companies serve the public interest depends on the theory that the only basis on which companies can be allowed to possess power , which effectively means the only basis on which large companies can be allowed to exist , is that they produce consequences beneficial to society . |
| 16 | The mechanism by which this infection , which predominantly affects the antral mucosa , predisposes to ulceration of the duodenum is unknown . |
| 17 | The prayer for relief so far as the third defendant is concerned , seeks damages for conspiracy to defraud ; exemplary damages ; an indemnity in respect of any liabilities to B.M.T. under what is described as ‘ the said deed , ’ which presumably means the legal charge or other instrument containing the personal guarantee given by the plaintiffs ; damages for deceit ; and interest . |
| 18 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 19 | It is the debate about the forces which determine this equilibrium which fundamentally separates the various schools of thought in macroeconomics . |
| 20 | This lays the foundations for the differentiation of the chorioallantoic placenta , which eventually becomes the major nutritional and respiratory organ of the conceptus . |
| 21 | All of which rather spoils the dramatic point of the rest of the film . |
| 22 | All of which rather spoils the dramatic point of the rest of the film . |
| 23 | The course is based on a continuous integrated story which naturally introduces the special usage of language required , by posing a commercial problem needing marketing and business analysis . |
| 24 | To use the phrase which better expresses the underlying concept , what the requirements of fairness demand when any body , domestic , administrative or judicial , has to make a decision which will affect the rights of individuals depends on the character of the decision-making body , the kind of decision it has to make and the statutory or other framework in which it operates . |
| 25 | To use the phrase which better expresses the underlying concept , what the requirements of fairness demand when any body , domestic , administrative or judicial , has to make a decision which will affect the rights of individuals depends on the character of the decision-making body , the kind of decision it has to make and the statutory or other framework in which it operates . |
| 26 | Sculptors after this give statues of women a new dress which better suits the changed mood . |
| 27 | ‘ Alta ’ is directly linked to ‘ altar ’ which basically means the high place . |
| 28 | This involves using a filtration process which basically makes the solid content of the milk much higher allowing it to set better , making it smooth , thick and above all , consistent . |
| 29 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 30 | This encodes the audio and video signals together and puts them onto the tape via the high-speed rotation of the head-drum ; it is this ‘ high writing speed ’ recording method which greatly improves the audio quality compared with VHS mono . |