Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ . |
| 2 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 3 | Plenty to see where the Old Town meets the sea : fishing boats on the beach , Lifeboat House , net huts ( illustrated ) and the Fishermen 's Museum . |
| 4 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 5 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 6 | German nationalism was very largely a search for a lost , elusive , mythical unity with which to bind up the German states in a re-animated , re-invented version of German history . |
| 7 | ‘ First : get somebody to check out the young strokeplayer and the promising offspinner who have been recommended to members of your committee . |
| 8 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 9 | If you ignore the rule which tells you to drive down the left- hand side of the road in Britain you may crash your car . |
| 10 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |
| 11 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 12 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 13 | While wrinkles may be beginning to appear on Sun 's ONC — and the market waits on a fully-configured commercial DCE package — NobleNet is positioning itself to mop up the interim business , targeting developers with mixed proprietary and open architectures and non-communicating RPC 's . |
| 14 | But do be aware that being a little easy-going in working out and rationing your calories can easily allow you to drift down the slippery slope towards being too easy-going to achieve weight loss . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't need you to point out the obvious . ’ |
| 16 | And your own personal ‘ diata ’ will help you to build up the long term eating habits that are necessary for good health . |
| 17 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 18 | That 's an immense chunk of grant to allocate early on but it allows you to budget carefully the meagre remains . |
| 19 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 20 | Now , to make life easier Tesco has produced a Microwave Power Test Kit ( £3.99 ) to help you to check both the new heating category and the power rating . |
| 21 | Civilisation , which is wholly controlled by man himself , should never have been allowed to develop without the unquestioning acceptance of the inexorable power of the evolutionary process itself to lay down the basic pattern of human behaviour . |
| 22 | This allows you to say where the receptive field lies and a little bit about its spatial organization but , unless you are very lucky , it would not allow classification into X- , Y- , and W-categories with any confidence . |
| 23 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 24 | While the Baby Bells try to sell corporate customers advanced services using their own networks , AT&T offers the same lot of customers PABXs which allow them to do exactly the same things . |
| 25 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 26 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 27 | They enable one to draw out the distinctive features of that culture , in a more useful manner than does the framework provided by others , and to consider the impact of both history and resources . |
| 28 | So far , gloves had been something to keep out the raw cold of the Yorkshire winter . |
| 29 | Use the slightly abrasive grey one to soften ridges and prepare nails for colour or use the pink one to bring out the natural shine instead of applying polish to your nails . |
| 30 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |