Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Minister made it clear a little more than a year ago that he was changing his attitude towards the Government of Syria , he said that he was able to do so because there was no known connection with terrorist organisations , such as that involving the appalling man , Jibril . |
| 2 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 3 | The only way to remove the Government was for Labour to win the next general election . |
| 4 | In particular , will your erstwhile political columnist , R W Johnson , apologise for the appalling piece of sexism that appeared in NSS ( under a previous editor ) on 7 December 1990 , when he suggested that the only way for Labour to win the next election would be for Glenys Kinnock to ‘ have a word ’ with Neil and persuade him to stand down ? |
| 5 | It will be a novel and healthy way for Labour to enter the 1990s . |
| 6 | Again , in the trading check example above there is the matter of weekly collection : allowing for that puts the 66 per cent rate of charge on 21-week repayment in a different light — expensive , certainly , but not extortionate . |
| 7 | Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour . |
| 8 | For this to take the appropriate forms in the particular cases of longitudinal and lateral correlations , |
| 9 | Yet the exchange had been all gain , for this became the happiest , the most rewarding period of his life , when to lose himself utterly in God and His Work was truly to find himself . |
| 10 | The sheer quantity of calculation and printing required for this stretches the modest administrative processor to its limit for two days . |
| 11 | After that come the Notorious Bits . |
| 12 | After that comes the divine response , but this time not before the people reject Joshua 's and Caleb 's assurances , and threaten to stone them . |
| 13 | After that comes the fun part — designing your extension or moving the furniture . |
| 14 | After that comes the initial coding . |
| 15 | One owner after another makes the amused discovery that these simple objects will keep the playful cat or kitten occupied much longer than any fancy toy . |
| 16 | Direct experience of " the real thing " must after all remain the primary purpose of any site visit . |
| 17 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 18 | These latter writers were trying to re-enter the lost world of childhood after first discarding the traditional concept of the afterlife . |
| 19 | Charles 's failure to call Parliament after 1681 removed the Whig challenge in the Commons , and a series of purges of local corporations , livery companies , and lieutenancies effectively destroyed the local bases of Whig power , both in London and in the provincial towns . |
| 20 | The Australian bombers carried the brunt of the Commonwealth bombing operations with 85% of total ordnance dropped between 1950 and 1955 and after 1955 constituted the entire heavy bomber mission tally until withdrawal in 1958 . |
| 21 | Even so , it took ‘ Ramshackle Mac ’ ( a sobriquet bestowed by his friend Lady Londonderry ) a few years after 1931 to achieve the full splendour of his hopelessness . |
| 22 | Clyde Waite won the day 's racing , but after 39 races the new overall series champion is the Bic-sponsored Clacton racer , Simon Pearce . |
| 23 | However , a resurgence of working-class agitation during 1833–4 alarmed the Whig government and the propertied classes in general . |
| 24 | The budget for 1991 allocates the first tranche of the ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 trillion ) that the government has agreed to spend on roads , railways , airports , housing , drains and other public works over the coming decade . |
| 25 | The bank estimated that Sri Lanka would require a total of $2,400 million during 1990-92 to finance the current-account deficit , to repay short-term loans contracted during the suspension of the SAF and to restore foreign exchange reserves to an acceptable level . |
| 26 | Yet it is precisely the persisting contrast between the male/female ratio at partnership level and below that concerns the English Law Society . |
| 27 | Ted Broughton joined the Palace in the summer of 1948 to occupy the outside-right position , which had never been satisfactorily filled since the war . |
| 28 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 29 | There are technical terms for each of the six parts , the first letter of each forming the mnemonic CATWOE . |
| 30 | This unlikely pair of companions had left Miss Wharton 's flat in Crowhurst Gardens just before half past eight to walk the half-mile stretch of the Grand Union Canal to St Matthew 's church . |