Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does this case fall within the relaxed rule ? |
| 2 | Did William know about the forced baptism ? |
| 3 | You could of course opt for the new Marshall JMP-1 MIDI preamp , which would almost certainly do the job ; I could equally recommend Boogie 's TriAxis , but that breaches your £1,000 ceiling . |
| 4 | Time to let the readers loose on the FESTIVE CAPTION CONTEST . |
| 5 | Fran let her eyes linger on the scarred red paintwork and shattered windows of her little Fiesta , then looked away with a sigh . |
| 6 | Did Maxham know about the other meetings with Fred ? |
| 7 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 8 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 9 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 10 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 11 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 12 | How does Robben feel about the current interest in blues ? |
| 13 | Brighter are so deeply drippy that they make Blueboy look like the English Metallica , Brighter sound like they 've been locked in a bedroom for the past six years and are still trying to come up with that ‘ C86 ’ audition tape . |
| 14 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |
| 15 | Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner . |
| 16 | Climbing out , stood for a few seconds to let his eyes adjust to the pale moonlight , then he stepped through the gap and began to pick his way carefully down the uneven terrain of the slope , towards the crashed car below . |
| 17 | How does the authority help schools decide on the relative emphasis they should give to particular aspects of the curriculum , especially the promotion of literacy and numeracy ? |
| 18 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 19 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is this bicameral quality in the American mind that lets the citizen read of the all-out official ‘ war on drugs ’ and ‘ war on terrorism ’ on one page , and then turn the page and read of the CIA sharing a bank with Miami cartels and Abu Nidal , and still go on as if he inhabited a ‘ normal world ’ . |
| 21 | But Forest , who only let Walker go in the first place because he had a release clause in his contract , will also be in the hunt . |
| 22 | The new bosses are so lower class , so uncouth , such vulgarians — ’ Davide would put a finger across his lips , but without emphasis , for he loved to hear her anger , it healed his own affliction , the binding fatigue which came over him when he contemplated his work , and made his legs drag across the shiny floors in the clanging corridors of the new Law Courts , Town Hall and Police Headquarters in booming Riba , concrete inside , dead white marble outside , sprouting confident towers of glass and statuary of muscular naked giants , Order clubbing Chaos , Force cracking Cowardice 's skull underfoot . |
| 23 | Katherine gazed into the fire , the leaping flames , let her eyes play over the fine marble hearth , the painting by George Grosz above it , with its hectic planes , its lurid faces , a satirist 's black view of life in the metropolis . |
| 24 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |
| 25 | What should the Mayor write to the Pied Piper ? |
| 26 | The test , as always , is whether the public is likely to be deceived by the use of the name and in applying this test it is important to consider the fields of activity involved ; do both parties operate in the same or different fields ? |
| 27 | The cash-strapped council this week cut home help services in the county to once a fortnight to make funds last until the new financial year in April . |
| 28 | They heard the car start at the third try and roar jerkily up the track behind the boathouse , leaving a faint cloud of blue smoke drifting around the corner . |
| 29 | She sighed now and wrapped her hands around her cocoa mug , letting her eyes drift to the framed photograph on top of the bookshelves . |
| 30 | NOW that England and Scotland are getting ready for the World Cup finals , the question on the lips of two rejoicing nations is : ‘ What will the lads wear for the big date in Italy ? ’ |