Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink ! |
| 2 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 3 | Clarify a definite beginning and end for the task , and make clear how the effectiveness of the decision will be assessed . |
| 4 | Erm as the scale of the problem became clear however the Party was forced to react and in a series of directives between February and May nineteen forty eight the leadership established more moderate ground rules for land reform . |
| 5 | I 've heard this quite a lot , it 's a , it 's a common |
| 6 | That 's what it 's all about , I 'd like perhaps to see whether we can tie that up a bit . |
| 7 | nervous now , you 're gon na be checking that quite a bit . |
| 8 | So they say , oh okay we 've sorted this out a bit now each group just has five pound to share out between fifteen of them . |
| 9 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 10 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 11 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 12 | Therefore let us consider next not the myth , but the reality of the eating habits of slim people . |
| 13 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 14 | In complete figures the head generally sits straight on the lion-neck , but the long , sinuous bird 's neck is a constant feature of the cauldron-heads . |
| 15 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 16 | Well I think I might be able to sort that out a lot of it will be underneath your |
| 17 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 18 | There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy . |
| 19 | He ate these twice a year or so |
| 20 | Can you pat those back a bit . |
| 21 | A marriage begun without financial security looks hazardous to the poet , let alone where the man seems cunning and manipulative . |
| 22 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 23 | Turned blue once a year . |
| 24 | Bouquets of flowers mark the spot where Mr Reynolds was shot dead exactly a week ago . |
| 25 | If the value of the whole expression , , is to remain constant then the value of the numerator must also fall . |
| 26 | If the price were to remain constant then the gain received on redemption would be constant . |
| 27 | I have used this quite a lot for cardigans for an elderly lady , who was a bit of a traditionalist and would not have tuck stitch , in which the ‘ wrong ’ purl ) side is used as the right side . |
| 28 | Lili was going to wear a crimson redingote of stiff taffeta with dull pewter buttons all down the front , a skull cap of crimson velvet atop her rusty curls , grey gun-metal stockings and gloves , and Egyptian crimson slippers . |
| 29 | If the vessel is sold unrepaired then the measure of indemnity will be the depreciation in the sale price caused by the unrepaired damage , provided such depreciation would not exceed the reasonable cost of repairs if the vessel had been repaired at the time of loss . |
| 30 | The second kind of case includes those where the agent 's personal normative position is affected by his consent , if it is valid , i.e. if it has its purported normative consequences . |