Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long , surprisingly thick mid-mounted wing , a legacy of the Fouga company 's glider-producing background , should endow low induced drag , although the myriad accessory-cooling slots and intakes on the engine casing and odd lumps and bumps of antennas on the aft body must dirty the otherwise-clean tandem configuration . |
| 2 | Religious Education should provide the context for and substantially influence the whole school curriculum . |
| 3 | The badly shaken Wiltern knows that if it does , however , he will lose his one chance to nail the biggest cocaine supplier in Los Angeles . |
| 4 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |
| 5 | Should South Africa host the next World Cup ? |
| 6 | In contrast to existing local authority plans , LDDC explicitly encouraged mainly private housing to diversify the existing housing stock which was 80 per cent council housing . |
| 7 | Coming back from the pillar box at the end of Charteris Road , Nurse Rose met the Private Wing sister . |
| 8 | To cut a long story short — and I 'd be glad to give the details to anyone who wants — it was in Moers that our force met the Communist Party leadership of the Ruhr . |
| 9 | The authors show that unqualified mature students in their study had some educational or professional qualification and just over half ( 51% ) met the General Entrance Requirement of their particular university . |
| 10 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 11 | Talbot Square now became a focal point on the tramway system , where the new town routes met the busy Promenade track , newly relaid and extended to the Gynn . |
| 12 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 13 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 14 | Britain angered Iran when Mr Rushdie met the Foreign Office minister , Douglas Hogg , on 4 February , his first public meeting with a British Government minister in four years . |
| 15 | It was pointed out that he met the Foreign Office Minister , Douglas Hogg , earlier this month . |
| 16 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 17 | In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book . |
| 18 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 19 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 20 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 21 | Being tight-fisted individuals we by-passed the fee-paying nature trail through the woods and crossed the beck to join a Green Lane that led pleasantly back to Clapham and the end of a fine day 's trek through Yorkshire 's classic karst and pavement country . |
| 22 | And England boss Graham Taylor has already warned that he would invoke the six-day release rule if the game is played this weekend . |
| 23 | For example will invoke the CLI command file " filename " . |
| 24 | For example , the following command will invoke the CLI command file whose name is held in the variable " fname$ " . |
| 25 | For example , the following command will invoke the CLI command file " prntr.cli " and execute it , instigating the redirection which it sets up . |
| 26 | Paul had been a real find so far , and she knew it would do his professional standing a lot of good if he could design the whole hotel complex . |
| 27 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 28 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 29 | Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 30 | You see , by starting with it you emphasise the wholly hopeful , optimistic expectations the words imply and then , by ending with it , you can stress the double-edged sword quality : the irony . |