Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be prudent to discuss the possibility of a candidate 's overseas posting with as many managers whom he has dealings with as possible or send the employee to an assessment centre . |
| 2 | We have this church , where Bee preach the sermons quiet , without spirit so as not to move the congregation to sing too loud or ring the bell or catch the Spirit and speak in tongues , so when Corporal Prince break into the Church one evening , he and the whole Bonasse Police Force , he finds us singing soft and low as children in a Sunday School : ‘ God moves in mysterious way His wonders to perform . ’ |
| 3 | They may , however , do no more than narrow or broaden the criterion 's reference , depending on the range of examples provided . |
| 4 | And the previous level of frankness in communication between the spouses about these matters can narrow or widen the possibility of stress between them during these communications in a hospital ward . |
| 5 | If you do n't tremble when Dave sings the line ‘ God , you 're beautiful , you really are ’ , you 're either comatose or possess the soul of a politician . |
| 6 | This was a mutual contract and the breach by the defenders was a material one , which entitled the pursuers , at their option , to insist on performance when due or accept the repudiation and treat themselves as free from further liability — Turnbull v McLean & Co ( 1874 ) 1 R 730 , LJ-C Moncreiff , p 738 . |
| 7 | The power of autogenic training and transcendental meditation to induce altered states of consciousness and lower or reverse the fight or flight response , encouraging both physical and mental rest and regeneration , is now well documented . |
| 8 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 9 | Keith Cox says the directors are up at Bolton tonight when they will look at the list of people who have already applied for the job and decide whether to appoint from that or advertise the post |
| 10 | ‘ It 's either that or take the job the youth employment officer has set up for me . ’ |
| 11 | It was either that or tackle the beast with his bare hands . |
| 12 | ‘ It was that or see the world destroyed . ’ |
| 13 | For example , he may strike a match perfectly well but in attempting to light a candle he may try to light the wick with the match unlit or strike the match against the candle . |
| 14 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 15 | Reduction of dose is similarly used for so-called sensitive cases who are immediately over stimulated or prove the remedy during the first days , or hours , of treatment . |
| 16 | If it is clear that a listed building is being neglected and is in urgent need of repair , and the owner has no plans to remedy this or to sell the property , the next stage is simple . |
| 17 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 18 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 19 | Faulty types of gait are : stiff , constrained , too high or dragging the ground , short steps , rocking , swaying , rolling , weaving . |
| 20 | Did n't Lee Chpman score 2 & miss the penalty . |
| 21 | Call FREE or complete the coupon . |
| 22 | This in turn means that instead of patronising or colonising the community , existing statutory and voluntary agencies are going to have to live with it as an equal ’ . |
| 23 | It is characteristic of the Government that although the Minister spoke for one quarter of an hour , he did not once refer to new clause 2 or defend the Government 's record . |
| 24 | The difficulties which most frequently arise concern the financial problems which arise when individual barristers move from one chambers to another or leave the Bar . |
| 25 | This is partially true , but the motivations for saying ‘ quack ’ , the kind of quack a duck makes , the social message that is being conveyed — fear , alarm , pain , surprise , contentment , ‘ Come here ’ , ‘ Go away ’ , ‘ Look what I 've found ’ — this all requires a mind behind the larynx to make it express or utter the intent and feeling within the duck 's mind , to give the quack the correct inflection and intonation . |
| 26 | In the words of the Robbins Report , ‘ it is this that furnishes the criterion of what institutions of higher education may properly teach ’ . |
| 27 | It is because of things like this that delivering the intervention ( and anything else ) to parents is a matter of problem-solving negotiation . |
| 28 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 29 | It is this that allows the NMDA receptor to behave as a molecular coincidence detector . |
| 30 | My Lord er in paragraph three fourteen of the statement of claim there is an important fact er which is a fact that is admitted by the defendant which is this that had the defendant on the plaintiff 's behalf taken the opportunity which was open to the plaintiff by virtue of national condition twenty two which should say and served a special notice to complete upon the vendors on about the eighteenth or the twenty second of October , the contract would in fact have been rescinded on the thirteenth or the nineteenth of November nineteen eighty five and the plaintiff would therefore have been able to get out of the contract and that , as I say , is admitted in the amended dissent . |