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 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The new form of administrative control is , for Foucault , represented by the panopticon , a device designed in the late eighteenth century by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 12 | There are few votes to be won in the rich white suburbs by promising to move poor blacks there . |
| 13 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 14 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 15 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 16 | There could be a real dogfight for those places , with every point won in the last few matches of the season becoming vital and only Cornwall themselves totally out of the reckoning . |
| 17 | There are still prizes to be won in the Scottish Nuclear News photo competition . |
| 18 | Easily Accessible : Walking in the wild unspoilt scenery is a favourite occupation of most guests . |
| 19 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 20 | Had that been approached in the same meticulous way ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades . |
| 23 | One in six residents of the New Cross estate have been attacked in the past two years , and a quarter have been hit by break-ins , a recent council survey showed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That means trying to get them commit committed in the nicest possible way . |
| 26 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 27 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 28 | Waterlilies and other deep-water aquatics grow in the deeper central portion of the pool . |
| 29 | When local government was reorganised in the mid 1970s , significant changes were made late on in the process but the Regional Council has been advised that this was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 30 | Patsy Healey has argued that the crux of the political dilemma lies in the traditional Conservative support in the shire counties : |