Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [vb base] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that the council has already had extra funding , how much more do the labour and liberal democrat councillors want ? |
| 2 | These latter note the parallel with ‘ occasion-setting ’ ( cf. |
| 3 | If these latter involve the nose and pharynx , this leads to ‘ snuffles ’ in which there is a profuse nasal discharge which may be bloodstained and is teeming with treponemes . |
| 4 | The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 33 ) , the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 191 ) and the Family Law Act 1986 all provide the opportunity for steps to be taken to return abducted children anywhere within the world , including between England and Scotland and England and Northern Ireland , but do not permit such a state of affairs to occur within England and Wales . |
| 5 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 6 | I still half expect the food to be doped . |
| 7 | All these indicate the kind of critique that is possible when we employ a perspective other than that provided by the immediate discipline . |
| 8 | The husband who is or becomes emotionally clumsy or inconsiderate , the wife who is over-demanding or nagging , the partner who is coldly disapproving or coolly unsupportive or the one who is noisily depreciatory all run the risk of becoming the " bad parent " ; the " bad parent " is not loved and the physical side of love will deteriorate . |
| 9 | Sentences 1 , 2 and 3 all contain the meaning ‘ sacks ’ ; the only formal element they have in common is the graphic sequence sacks . |
| 10 | Their relations to one another determine the syntax ( that is , the grammar ) of the language they constitute , and their causal relations to the external world determine their semantics ( that is , what they are about or refer to ) . |
| 11 | In one such exercise the karateka lies on his back , while the partner holds his legs , and begins a series of sit-ups . |
| 12 | Since average yields on non-irrigated land could not rise much above fivefold the seed , the increase must have been the result of extending the cultivated area by ploughing marginal land : Jovellanos in the eighteenth century , Fermin Caballero in the 1850's , and the Report on the agricultural crisis of 1887 all accuse the farmer of ploughing up more than he could maintain in cultivation . |
| 13 | Half of the volunteers stay in one place , while the other half tour the neighbourhood . |
| 14 | There are also numerous problems arising out of the broader political situation : as of 1990 these include the possibility of reintegrating all or some of the homelands into a national education system ; the outcome of the bid for national political status by the Natal-based Inkatha movement , with attendant violence which has severely disrupted life in the Transvaal as well as Natal ; and the length of time it takes to dismantle the apartheid system completely . |