Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 2 | The longer this salad chills the better the flavour . |
| 3 | Many fear the longer the fighting goes on the less the chance of a tolerant democratic system emerging . |
| 4 | Moreover , the farther from shore a duck sleeps the greater the distance a cat must cover in its final uncovered dash . |
| 5 | Accordingly the older the child concerned the greater the weight the court should give to its wishes , certainly in the field of medical treatment . |
| 6 | This was that women became subordinated economically because the men gained control of the means of production , and so ‘ while the husband became the bourgeois the wife represented the proletariat ’ [ p. 137 ] . |
| 7 | To enjoy the best the Railway has to offer , travel in spring , when wild flowers peek through fresh green embankments . |
| 8 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 9 | , bless , president of the A V W Engineering Union , gave a warning to the T U C against denying the unemployed the opportunity to join the Scheme . |
| 10 | With increasing thermal energy the chain ends will be able to rotate more readily than the rest of the chain and the more chain ends a sample has the greater the contribution to the free volume when these begin moving , consequently the glass transition temperature is lowered . |
| 11 | The more rehearsed the better the spokesman or interviewee will be . |
| 12 | The fish are drawn into nets using an electrical charge ; the more fish that are caught the purer the water is likely to be . |
| 13 | The richer the content of the problem solved the happier the child . |
| 14 | Yet the more you build the greater the sense of exile . |
| 15 | Now Adrian is keeping a round the clock watch for the dog in case it returns . |
| 16 | The Talyllyn continues to provide an all the year round agency facility for British Rail for both passenger and Red Star parcel facilities . |
| 17 | A problem in the other direction was that the greater the leaf cover the greater the amount of reflected light is blocked . |
| 18 | The traditional elements are not recognisable in Africa as ‘ the work of human hands ’ and because magic uses the exotic the bread and wine of the Eucharist tend to be viewed as magical . |
| 19 | Fronting the ramshackle The Fall , Mark E. Smith used an uncompromising vocal attack to inflict a brutally unconventional view of life in the unsuspecting souls at the front of the audience . |
| 20 | In the long run , the obvious consequence of this is that the more frequently a word occurs the lower the threshold of its logogen will be , and hence the less activation of the logogen needed for it to reach threshold . |
| 21 | It 's an introduction cos this is given to a member of staff and he says the first the question is can develop and train all staff . |
| 22 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 23 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 24 | There really is no need to sail more than 300m off the beach ; remember that the further out you sail the longer the swim back in should your equipment break . |
| 25 | Laches could amount to bad faith and , in any case , the longer the time lag the greater the likelihood that the partners will , even inadvertently , do some act which affirms their partnership with the offending partner and which might raise an estoppel to prevent their proceeding with his expulsion . |
| 26 | The most important ingredient is speed , sine the faster you are going the lighter the rig will feel in the duck ( apparent wind ) . |
| 27 | So you 've got the all the cash being handled by one person rather than being bonded together and any other situation where we get |
| 28 | Besides two short piano pieces from Sanctus , Words For The Dying also includes the luminous The Soul of Carmen Miranda , one of three spontaneous and highly promising recordings with Eno that will set the tone for the next album , ‘ a rock'n'roll record I can be happy with because the percussion wo n't hit me over the head . ’ |
| 29 | The more eggs you add the runnier the mixture ! |
| 30 | The idea of the challenge , conceived by Chay Blyth , was to give anyone aged between 20 and 60 the chance to buy a round the world adventure for £14 , 850 , subject to convincing Blyth of their suitability and enthusiasm . |