Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 2 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 3 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 4 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
| 5 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 6 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 7 | Since buyers and sellers rarely want the same paper , the banker in the middle usually dips into his bag of swaps and options to transform one side of the deal into something more conventional . |
| 8 | Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows . |
| 9 | As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible . |
| 10 | Again , self-reference , albeit of a slightly different character , is essential to the analyses of valid consent and of promising which are acts changing the normative situation because they are undertaken in the belief that they so change the normative situation . |
| 11 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
| 12 | Spray apply caustic cleaner and very gently agitate the compacted soil with the edge of a wire brush tilted so that the wire bristles contact only the joint area and not the tile face . |
| 13 | I naturally commend the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr.Cormack ) on his choice of subject for debate . |
| 14 | Only make the right wing strong ’ ) , and his successor as Chief of Staff , General Helmuth von Moltke , while broadly adopting Schlieffen 's plan , had already fatally modified it through timidity . |
| 15 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 16 | The failures and errors merely highlight the over-all success . |
| 17 | Gently curve the lower edge of the strip up to a 4cm point at the opposite end . |
| 18 | Gently melt the low-fat spread in a saucepan and add the flour . |
| 19 | I think that two and a eleven basically say the same thing in different in different ways . |
| 20 | Swiftly slip the numbered ring on to one of its legs . |
| 21 | If you can find one good man , then I wo n't burn down your city and they ca n't get anybody , so whoosh the whole lot goes up , O K. So Gomorrah |
| 22 | Pipe rosettes around the top of the birthday cake , and gently press the appropriate number of candles into the rosettes . |
| 23 | Educational activities and annual leave , together provide the main reason for staff being unavailable for work . |
| 24 | It was apparent that he had used it both to slam the shutters and so knock the simple latch back into place . |
| 25 | When the Birds of Australia was finally completed in June 1848 , Gould generously and justly acknowledge the vital role his amanuensis had played in running the entire business while he was away . |
| 26 | Individual nuclear family units not only provide the maximum number of outlets for commodity production , but also facilitate social control . |
| 27 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 28 | " I only want the ordinary sense of the word . " |
| 29 | In recent years , there have been several examples of governments excluding or controlling television cameras in order to control the ‘ flow of information ’ and so minimize the political impact of the medium . |
| 30 | Mid-layers perhaps provide the most versatility in the layering set-up , and these days the buzz-word is fleece , that warm and cuddly fabric which took over where fibre-pile left off . |