Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 2 | Employees change for the better when they work in the community . |
| 3 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 4 | What is different is a flat designed for the disabled where they can gain confidence to live outside |
| 5 | Now , with a journey through the EC regarded as the same as an internal domestic trip , drivers are not obliged to carry any special documents . |
| 6 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 7 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 8 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 9 | My subsequent business activities were to involve my old colleague Barry Kirby in , commencing January 1981 and ending in the mid-eighties when the premises came in for redevelopment . |
| 10 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 11 | He would not survive in the open if he had no strength . |
| 12 | In studying this period writers have tended to use ‘ government ’ to refer to elected party or civilian cabinets , whose position is eroded in the 1930s as the state became even more totalitarian . |
| 13 | May also stated that he could not hear any detailed evidence relating to the Four until any criminal proceedings against police officers had been completed . |
| 14 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 15 | Where their interests overlapped with the Maud Committee they reached similar conclusions , and we may concentrate on the latter as dealing in greater detail with the concerns of this chapter . |
| 16 | The Conwy pairing of Gary Macara and Roy Williams won the last two holes to level the match and then won at the 19th after Flint had put their tee shot out of bounds . |
| 17 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 18 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 19 | At times , of course , we know that the rate of subsidence ( and the rate of uplift ) has influenced the type of sedimentation , so the two are connected , but my general thesis remains that for the preservation of the bulk of the continental stratigraphical record we must think of the two as separate and independent phenomena . |
| 20 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 21 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 22 | assessments are available , and Mrs will confirm as the same as the cycling issue for example the value and assessments will be made available , these are vast documents of many pages , if you look at the actual , the final page you 'll see there in fact that the |
| 23 | It 's actually called a perfect octave but they never worry about the perfect when you 're talking about an octave . |
| 24 | Riborg approved of the Iraquis because they wore clean shirts every day , but disapproved of the Welsh because they were dirty and noisy and went round in droves . |
| 25 | In Cornwall in 1796 , 1801 and 1812 a noose and contract was taken around to farmers , who were threatened with the former if they did not agree to sign the latter . |
| 26 | And it does not matter in the slightest if that insurrection is justified or not . ’ |
| 27 | The possibilities for disputes of the latter kind of course have increased since this study was done in the 1960s because of rising rates of divorce and remarriage , and we need up-to-date data on how people handle the range of claims of inheritance in families where there is a complex series of step-relationships . |
| 28 | Two schools later ( his parents having moved house ) the boy was ill , and his then head wrote to the consultant treating him that he ‘ had previously attended two schools , having transferred from the first because of ‘ transitory emotional difficulties ’ ( Ed . |
| 29 | The works ( Leading principles of a Constitutional Code ; Official Aptitude Maximized , Expense Minimized ; Codification proposal ; and Emancipation Spanish ) were mostly written in the 1820's when Bentham brought together , with his theory of representative democracy , his long interest in public finance and codification , which were then adapted in Bentham 's words ‘ for the use of all nations and all governments professing liberal opinions ’ . |
| 30 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |