Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , the fair-minded British tend to side with the underdog . |
| 2 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 3 | Some want to invest in the island and get some kind of tourism going . ’ |
| 4 | Some suggest tinkering with the tax system : raise the ceiling for tax-free earnings , or boost the earned-income tax credit for low-earners . |
| 5 | Some stop to talk to the hunger strikers . |
| 6 | At this point we noticed some fry scattering towards the far bank , so I retrieved and cast to the spot . |
| 7 | Mainly the sparks fly down off the wheel , but some seem to cling to the circumference all round then fly up into the operator 's face . |
| 8 | The control movements needed to achieve this vary according to the configuration of the undercarriage . |
| 9 | When the Orioles ' designated hitter lifts a three-run homer over the right field fence in the ninth to wrap it up at 9–3 , the resigned Sox faithful begin heading for the exits . |
| 10 | Not all bureau have all the fonts and while most have a good range from the Adobe/Linotype collection few seem to cater for the other vendors such as Monotype , Compugraphic , etc , etc . |
| 11 | There was the son of a Dallas police officer who held a press conference last autumn to ‘ confess ’ that his dead father was the ‘ second gunman ’ some believe fired at the president from a grassy knoll . |
| 12 | Many pointedly refer to themselves as ‘ Königsberger ’ and few feel threatened by the influx of German tourists and money into the region . |
| 13 | Some prefer to feed from the tank bottom , or the midwater level , however , and if we do not cater for these fish they may find all the food gets eaten before any sinks down to them . |
| 14 | Sea fishing is also taken up by many some prefer to fish from the beach and others prefer to fish from a boat . |
| 15 | The most dramatic examples of this have occurred in the Sunderbans . |
| 16 | ‘ Some need turning in the night , particularly those with muscular dystrophy , ’ says nurse Lou Major . |
| 17 | THE FRENCH have called in the troops to speed up the spread of computer learning . |
| 18 | By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade . |
| 19 | – Some have to do with the child 's temperament ; others relate to parents ' physical and emotional resources and , of course , their methods of discipline ( or lack of them ! ) . |
| 20 | Some have seen in the clash between Antigone and Creon a parable of the demands of individual conscience against social imperatives , others in the encounter between Ismene and her sister a dramatisation of the need to temper conviction lest it degenerate into fanaticism . |
| 21 | In the past some have jeered at the burial procedure . |
| 22 | We 've had hundreds of cards and letters for our special Pick the Manager Competition … some fans have been giving it plenty of thought … some have taken to the drawing board … |
| 23 | In addition to the United Kingdom , they have been sold to Canada ( the largest market ) , the U.S.A. , Switzerland , Austria , Italy , Norway , Sweden , Finland , Denmark , Holland , Luxembourg , Germany , France , New Zealand , South Africa , Japan , Russia , China , Ireland , Belgium , Australia , and a few have gone to the Ivory Coast , surely amongst the most unlikely of places . |
| 24 | There was n't much welcome to overstay in the various snack parlours where he lingered ( and where he moreover imagined himself unfavourably recollected from his previous TLM vigils , holding with both hands the creaky Styrofoam container , and watching the light pour past the office windows . |
| 25 | There will be some serious disillusion to follow on the heels of the euphoria of freedom . |
| 26 | The mighty continue to fall at the Stockholm Open . |
| 27 | In this deformation all quantities dX become increased by the same factor — -1 ) . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the following have resigned from the subsidiaries which they have assisted , many for a considerable period : . |
| 29 | The Japanese have advanced in the face of claims by many observers that they are poor at developing software — the instructions that make computers operate . |
| 30 | Chapters 6 and 7 have looked at the way that books can be evaluated , and at the sources for evaluation . |