Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 2 | Last season ended with a ferocious row over the Bank Holiday scheduling of the Schweppes Cup semi-finals , though as usual the clubs backed off , their threats as empty as ever . |
| 3 | About half the companies set up in the UK over the last 10 years are no longer with us . |
| 4 | Mr Sherwood has offered to raise $1.1billion from the sell-offs , and would use at least half the proceeds to buy back stock from shareholders at $70 a share . |
| 5 | All they 've got in here is a little heap of Westerns and thrillers with half the pages torn out or covered in tea and snot . |
| 6 | The wheelbarrow was on its side , half the contents spilled out , and I was picking myself up . |
| 7 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 8 | with half the pegs pulled out ? |
| 9 | 3–4 The fuses fizzle out and the gun fails to fire . |
| 10 | As Sister Teresa turned to get some the men took out their guns and shot her eight times in from of the children . |
| 11 | Controlling the rig Once the rig is free the hands move on to the boom in the normal sailing position and the power is controlled by sheeting in and out . |
| 12 | On first returning to power in 1979 the Conservatives set out to make piecemeal adjustments to the social security system . |
| 13 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 14 | If you 're dragged up , it 's only natural the children turn out like that . |
| 15 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 16 | The task for artists , and their patrons , is to make sure the timetables fill up with living work , not empty ritual . |
| 17 | And it is my responsibility to make sure the players concentrate over the entire 90 minutes and are not looking towards the next match . |
| 18 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 19 | All the options came out filling Sweden 's energy needs at a cost of between $5.5 and $7 billion per year , or from 2 to 2.9 cents per kWh . |
| 20 | can see all the smokers gathering along there |
| 21 | And you see all the smokers lining up there . |
| 22 | From now on , Nietzsche 's antithesis was to figure prominently in all the studies leading up to BT . |
| 23 | Out go the lights in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus and all the cinemas close down , and the IBM typewriters stop chattering , and the computer screens go blank . |
| 24 | All the offences happened on or near the same two footbridges on the Fishermead estate . |
| 25 | All the stacks blown down . |
| 26 | ‘ If he signs it will be like all the fireworks going off on Bonfire Night . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Mountsorrel is a small place and we generally hear of all the doings round about . ’ |
| 28 | This is where all the stars bow down . |
| 29 | Furthermore , simple measurements of sediment at a point represent only the net result of all the processes going on upstream . |
| 30 | Have they got all the sections filled in ? |