Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the patient is trying to communicate in the fewest possible words , and a sentence missing its function words is easier to understand than a sentence missing its content words . |
| 2 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ — in other words , a row — over Lewis 's tunnel-visioned determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 3 | Maloney said he and Lewis were having ‘ serious discussions ’ over Lewis 's determination to force the man he beat in the 1988 Olympic final back into the ring next April . |
| 4 | Whom did David Steel beat in the 1975 Liberal leadership contest ? |
| 5 | A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session . |
| 6 | If a status quo is preserved , Chelmsford seem sure to struggle in the new eight-team Premier League unless a number of quality players show a willingness to come to Essex . |
| 7 | With the Professional version however , the basic cardigan could easily be designed in the STANDARD shaping section , leaving only the front edges to be manually adjusted within the ORIGINAL shaping section . |
| 8 | What seem to be four candlesticks — designed in the same sugary style — stand guard around it and a fifth , a little distance from the main confectionary , is crowned with a gilded figure . |
| 9 | There are few votes to be won in the rich white suburbs by promising to move poor blacks there . |
| 10 | There are still prizes to be won in the Scottish Nuclear News photo competition . |
| 11 | Easily Accessible : Walking in the wild unspoilt scenery is a favourite occupation of most guests . |
| 12 | Had that been approached in the same meticulous way ? |
| 13 | In his speech Kozyrev had accused Western powers of interfering in the former Soviet Union , claimed the right to use military action in the area , and threatened to come to the aid of Serbia . |
| 14 | The Committee of Senior Officials ( CSO ) of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Prague on Nov. 5-6 , made public a specially commissioned report recommending the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes alleged to have been committed in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 15 | That means trying to get them commit committed in the nicest possible way . |
| 16 | Waterlilies and other deep-water aquatics grow in the deeper central portion of the pool . |
| 17 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |
| 18 | The main obstacle lies in the existing neo-liberal economic model which favours the powerful and encourages monopolies to rule in communications and other fields . |
| 19 | We feel that the main contribution of this volume to existing debate lies in the actual ethnographic presentations of peaceful societies , with the overall interpretation being explications on indigenous conceptions of human nature and categories of emotions . |
| 20 | Again , the answer lies in the firm sharp warning but take notice of the difference in the warning given before guidance starts and those warnings given before the other methods are used . |
| 21 | A further possible explanation , however , lies in the well recognised production of large amounts of mucoprotein by villous tumours of the rectum . |
| 22 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 23 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 24 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 25 | The real interest of the Rousset manuscript lies in the ten unknown pieces unknown , at least , to me . |
| 26 | The answer to these questions lies in the intense international rivalry to be first with fusion , a rivalry that persists to this day . |
| 27 | The background to much of this discussion lies in the seventeenth-century English political philosopher , Thomas Hobbes ( 1588–1679 ) . |
| 28 | The pathos lies in the characteristic early English understatement — ‘ so seldom ’ means ‘ never ’ or worse still ‘ just this once ’ — and also in the last phrase 's suspense between precision and vagueness . |
| 29 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 30 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |