Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He allows , however , that it 'll take six to nine months after the acquisition is complete to see which way the wind is blowing .
2 It would then be possible to see what progress the Welsh Office and its various agencies are making towards the attainment of common goals .
3 It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel .
4 You may ( or may not ) be interested to see what fixtures the scum have over the festive season .
5 Young and old sharing their lives the way they always had , before television shrunk the world …
6 ‘ I was wrong to give your mother a job , ’ he said .
7 The scale and importance of the nationalized concerns are so great that ministers are not prepared to give their managers a free hand .
8 She was not prepared to give her mother the satisfaction of knowing that Nicky had deceived her .
9 In one of the most striking of his letters to his brother , the Emperor Joseph II , he stresses the need for a ruler always to be willing to give his subjects a complete account of the finances of the state and of their administration ; such action , he writes , is ‘ glorious , useful and just ’ .
10 But if you 're prepared to hold your horses a little until that final fence , I 've a feeling that you may well end up ahead of the rest of the field [ JH ]
11 This gave their office a quasi-priestly function .
12 This gave our evaluation a " critical edge " in which the observed realities were measured against the stated aims of the project and could be perceived as a contrast between the ideal and the actual .
13 This gave his candidacy a clear sense of direction that others have lacked .
14 This gives their surface a curious prickly feel .
15 This gives your messages a structure and thus an underlying strength .
16 Only then would he be free to offer his father the respect he owed him .
17 so it does , that rots your teeth a lot of chocolate and sweets .
18 The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion
19 Pointless trying to swim against it , but sometimes it just was n't that easy to see which way the current went .
20 But Labour 's deputy leader of the council , Alan Dean , said it was impossible to know what effect the level of government finance , pay settlements and competitive tendering would have on the council 's ability to guarantee jobs .
21 It was easy to imagine what relief the miners must have felt at the end of a long day 's work in those conditions when they saw the mouth of the tunnel framing the daylight before them .
22 It is not easy to appraise what success the Land Commission achieved .
23 but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar .
24 And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … .
25 I say advantage because if you were to close your eyes while playing , it would be impossible to say which guitar the Carlton 's neck reminded you of most .
26 The following table of classifications of errors from test recognition data shows that it is impossible to tell what type the original error was .
27 In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong .
28 Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate .
29 It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns .
30 Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous .
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