Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |
| 2 | Women heard about the different educational method used in the five phrenological schools that had beer founded by William Ellis in the 1850s . |
| 3 | Have you heard about the Tory moderate who hit the cheerful-looking palmist on the nose ? |
| 4 | We squelched through the oozy wet mud of the long sea wall at Titchwell Marsh . |
| 5 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 6 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 7 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 8 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 9 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 10 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 11 | For any given program there is an optimum or efficient memory usage for an environment in which many programs are competing for the limited available real memory . |
| 12 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 13 | It was the same idealistic but essentially woolly vision of institutionalized divisions melting away as human contacts and common interests developed between the two entrenched camps . |
| 14 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 15 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 16 | In 1929 a serious dispute over tactics arose between the Communist International and the Mexican Communists . |
| 17 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 18 | We distinguish between the independent financial entity and the competitive units it owns . |
| 19 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 20 | Close behind , speeding through the flickering violet light , were a large ominous-looking chest and a picture box that skittered along dangerously on its three legs . |
| 21 | Pompeo Batoni 's ‘ Frederick North ’ was painted during the future Prime Minister 's stay in Rome , and Sir Thomas Lawrence 's ‘ Sir Charles Stewart ’ ( later Ambassador at Vienna ) may have prompted the Prince Regent to patronise the painter . |
| 22 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 23 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 24 | ‘ Best hang tight to my arm , boy , ’ he yelled and together they leaned forward and tramped through the long wet grass to wrestle with the Littles ' gate . |
| 25 | Even allowing for the contemporary French intellectual fashion which puts a premium on witty forms of oracular paradox this seems a bit far out . |
| 26 | Allowing for the three major leakages of imports , savings and taxation , it has been calculated that for every £l paid to an employee in the UK , a further 80 pence of expenditure is generated throughout the economy . |
| 27 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 28 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 29 | The futures price has fallen between the previous close and last trade by 2.0 ( i.e.1812.5 -1810.5 ) or by 4 ticks ( i.e. 2.0/0.5 ) . |
| 30 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |