Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 2 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 3 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 4 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 5 | And yet , despite his obvious distress , this man had not even tried to save his nephew other than , through his lamentable dithering , allowing the poor child a few more days of life . |
| 6 | In construing the supplemental instrument the whole of the previous instrument may be looked at ( Plumrose Ltd v Real and Leasehold Estates Investment Society Ltd [ 1969 ] 3 All ER 1441 ) . |
| 7 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 8 | Rosten now stood between the two , his feet spread , his right arm outstretched , the sword in his right hand , its tip almost touching the cobbled ground a body 's length away . |
| 9 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 10 | always like , quite when they re repeat the same thing the week after . |
| 11 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 12 | You made the classic mistake the only mistake there is here you multiply everything by two |
| 13 | All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society . |
| 14 | Commenting on the Arens statement the Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 22 said that " the PLO 's apparent approval of Cairo 's move made the Egyptian government an unacceptable interlocutor for Tel Aviv " . |
| 15 | That made the Irish Sea the most radioactive stretch of water in the world . |
| 16 | The proven fact of German and Italian intervention made the Spanish Republic a symbol of resistance to fascism . |
| 17 | King Charles , not to be outdone , then made the abandoned wife a duchess , the title to die with her . |
| 18 | When the Secretary of State made the equivalent announcement a year ago , I congratulated him on his promotion to the Cabinet . |
| 19 | In the saleroom was a crush of the fashionable of Amsterdam , faces straight out of the portraits of Ochterveldt and Rembrandt , echoing the 17th century prosperity which made the Dutch bourgeoisie the richest in Europe . |
| 20 | Long hours of sedentary work were linked to the consumption which made the poor tailor the " wretched emblem of death " . |
| 21 | The epidemic took hold during the 1970s , when high rates of income tax and an attempt by successive governments to control pay made the company-owned car a good way of rewarding people surreptitiously . |
| 22 | Fifth , it examines whether recent elections have produced a realignment in the party system ; have three successive handsome election victories now made the Conservative party the natural majority party ? |
| 23 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 24 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 25 | Especially as the childminder had n't seen what had happened , so she did n't realize why he was carrying on like he was , made the whole thing a little bit tricky , can I give you this ? |
| 26 | Other buttresses to Bismarck 's system were an alliance between Austria-Hungary and Serbia , which virtually made the smaller country a Habsburg satellite during the reign of King Milan , and the accession of Rumania to the Triple Alliance , which guaranteed that country against Russian attack . |
| 27 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 28 | Eustace said Philips was ‘ about two-thirds dependent on Europe ’ which made the continent-wide recession a potentially serious drag on results . |
| 29 | On appeal by the defendants , the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and discharged the injunction , holding that as a matter of domestic law there was no justification for extending to local authorities bringing proceedings under section 222 of the Act of 1972 to enforce the criminal law the privilege enjoyed by the Crown alone of being granted an interlocutory injunction without giving a cross-undertaking as to damages ; and that since it had not been established that the defendants had no defence under article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 30 | Bring the old girl a chair will you , lads ? ’ |