Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The variety of stresses that affect biological systems and influence the immune system 's potentiality are as follows : |
| 2 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 3 | The sight that met the young housewife 's eyes was appalling . |
| 4 | Syngman Rhee 's reaction was vitriolic when he met the American chargé d'affaires in Seoul on 9 May. : |
| 5 | Although , as we have seen , in 1828 Veitch was dismissed from his consulship for having addressed Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of plain ‘ General ’ when he met the vanquished Emperor en route for St Helena , he had become such a popular figure in Madeira that , after representations from the island , he was reinstated by Lord Palmerston in 1831 . |
| 6 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |
| 7 | This fits the stony coral 's relationship with its millions of single-celled plants ( zooxanthellae ) admirably . |
| 8 | The fact that you can turn the engine off and use it as a glider must extend the appeal of this unusual creature which hardly fits the general public 's notion of a microlight . |
| 9 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 10 | Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them . |
| 11 | Pro-life campaigners have attacked the House of Lords ' ruling to uphold the High Court 's decision to allow Tony to die . |
| 12 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 13 | Erm because the the national policy is obviously to target the green movement erm as our natural constituency . |
| 14 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 15 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |
| 16 | Overall ratings of 140 achieve the Ford Q101 award and scores of over 160 gain the prestigious Ford Q1 Award . |
| 17 | Naming the sole trader 's business |
| 18 | ‘ It was Mrs Hardcastle — Alison has a nasty attack of flu , and she wo n't be fit enough to wear the chief bridesmaid 's dress on Saturday . ’ |
| 19 | When in barracks and field dress , generals often choose to wear the general officers ' cap badge not in the dark blue GS beret , but in the ‘ tribal headgear ’ of their former unit . |
| 20 | Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen before we commence the business of the Annual General Meeting I 'd like to remind members of the very great honour that was bestowed upon the Association at the end of last year when we were granted the right to wear the red ensign defi defaced with the crown . |
| 21 | A wronged woman might stab her husband with scissors , cut up his clothes or ram the other woman 's car , but the consequences are not predictable . |
| 22 | Erm I tend to share Patrick Earle 's reservations about this particular policy , I think that it would convey the wrong message erm to the development industry . |
| 23 | He stood , then walked across the room , touching the old man 's arm briefly , sympathetically . |
| 24 | Not one word on the environment passed the Prime Minister 's lips when he welcomed the Queen 's Speech at the start of this Session . |
| 25 | Has Iain Banks passed the Scottish writer 's mid-life crisis ? |
| 26 | The minority included Sir Keith Joseph , who took his bleak monetarist outlook to the Department of Trade and Industry , and John Biffen , an early apostle of Enoch Powell 's financial credo , who became a Treasury Minister ( and who also shared the Prime Minister 's lack of enthusiasm for ‘ Europe ’ ) . |
| 27 | Balcon was forced off the CFC , where places were found both for Alexander Korda , who shared the new mogul 's enthusiasm for ‘ bigger and bigger films , ’ and for Rank himself . |
| 28 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 29 | There had n't been time to get Maxim 's name on the usual notice of forthcoming visitors to the embassy ; she had been signalled by the Security Service who shared the Steering Committee 's deep distrust of the visit and wanted her to debrief him after his meeting . |
| 30 | DFDS chairman Jan Erlund said in his annual report , currency devaluations and the recession will continue to hit the Scandinavian firm 's profits . |