Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 62 | For Porsche , the 911 holds the same place as the Dino Berlinetta Speciale does for Ferrari — a marvellous design that could be continually updated and evolved . |
| 63 | Increasingly , under LMS , schools will have the freedom to choose a local firm or individual to provide the many services they need to run effectively . |
| 64 | The requested authority is required by Article 10 to apply the same measures of compulsion against an unwilling witness as it would do under its internal law in local proceedings . |
| 65 | She was heavily veiled and masked to walk the few yards to the women 's dining majlis , which was , of course , in the house of Sheikha Grandmother . |
| 66 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 67 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 68 | ‘ I was getting bored doing the same jokes night after night , ’ he says . |
| 69 | Although in everyday professional speech the phrase the in-service training of teachers ( INSET ) is often used to denote formal courses operated collectively with groups of teachers , this view of INSET must be perceived as too limited to describe the many practices which are used in the professional development of teachers ( Gordon and Lawton 1978 , Becher and Maclure 1978 ) . |
| 70 | Not all members of staff in this department of thirteen felt the same degree of commitment to The Machine Gunners as a class reader . |
| 71 | The 52 chapters of the work ( Thomas , 1956 ) were organized in three parts : the first retrospective , elaborating the way in which man has changed the face of the earth ; the second reviewing the many ways in which processes have been modified ; and the third concerned with the prospect raised by the limits on the role of man . |
| 72 | Yet Doreen 's aunt and the au pair , who was quite a caring sort , did much to sweeten the latter part of Doreen 's childhood . |
| 73 | The Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880 , section 7 penalises the same sorts of behaviour at any burial under the Act ( burials without Church of England rites ) . |
| 74 | It is not easy to survey the many areas in which there has been not only response to Dei Verbum , but also developments traceable to its influence , yet going far beyond what most of the Council 's members could have foreseen . |
| 75 | When people queried whether Eva 's alert mind would get bored repeating the same course every couple of months she had a ready answer . |
| 76 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 77 | If an effective method can be found , then it may be possible to utilise the same information to aid the choice of candidate words in positions where no error has been found . |
| 78 | It may be helpful , when considering a precedent , to ask why a particular term has been included , and what it is intended to achieve , and then consider whether the same result can be achieved in any other way : for instance , it may be possible to express the same idea more clearly or concisely . |
| 79 | This may be true , but there are other offences to deal with that aspect , and , in any case , violence in private raises the same issues of physical integrity and self-determination . |
| 80 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 81 | We three shared the same interests and opinions , and spent the days and evenings very happily together . |
| 82 | When Ruth climbed into her bed that night Miss Beard was packing for her next day 's departure and she was far more talkative than usual , regaling Ruth with the names and pedigrees of notables with whom she might be privileged to breathe the same air . |
| 83 | A fortnight later , on the plains of the Namoi , Gould was thrilled to see the same bird in such great numbers that , when Natty drove them up before him , ‘ eight fell to a single discharge' of his gun . |
| 84 | They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us , even though they are not particularly light reading . |
| 85 | Perhaps the most fundamental was the great variation in the size and resources of units all supposed to perform the same tasks at roughly the same standards . |
| 86 | The DAF workers are less likely to attract the same sort of gritty sympathy that the miners have done . |
| 87 | The IBM 370 range of computers has more than 180 different instructions , but some of these provide the same operation ( such as " add " ) on different data types ; we could reduce this number by using a tagged architecture , as described in 2.6 . |
| 88 | You pay an annual fee — from about £15 for a microwave to £50 for a washer-drier ( of all household appliances , these cause the most problems ) . |
| 89 | Consequently , any measure which seeks to strengthen central influence on the curriculum and to weaken teachers ' autonomy in curriculum matters is still likely to evince the same suspicion and hostility with which teachers responded to ‘ payment by results ’ . |
| 90 | The difficulty is that we are quite likely to pick the same herd twice and if that were to happen we would have to sample it twice . |