Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 2 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 3 | The youngster of today who comes to grips for the first time with a personal computer little imagines the wealth of mathematical inventiveness invested in the design of the software and in the electronic circuitry itself . |
| 4 | As the name implies you walk towards the back of the board thereby sinking the tail . |
| 5 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 6 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 7 | The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point . |
| 8 | The wide range of courses in terms of content and timespan presumably reflects the budget and teaching staff available and the demand created by service needs ( notably shortage of staff in specific areas ) , and the needs expressed by interested applicants . |
| 9 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 10 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 11 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 12 | A thicker shell presumably protects the snail better . |
| 13 | the contract expressly gives the customer the right to return any goods within seven days of receiving them and to cancel the agreemnent . |
| 14 | Both houses of Germany 's parliament overwhelmingly approved the treaty last December . |
| 15 | The framework slowly stretched the fabric apart . |
| 16 | A steady burning sensation gnawed at the Doctor 's joints as the steam yacht slowly churned the water . |
| 17 | The chairman rarely contravenes the advice of the Council . |
| 18 | No story better illustrates the importance of the English-speaking world that Britain had brought into being , than James Flanagan 's reception . |
| 19 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 20 | He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction . |
| 21 | Quite the reverse , it is possible expressly to link the concept of " relational properties " with a ( suitably modified ) pluralist thesis by arguing , for example , that the possession of a relational property of a certain kind necessarily entails the existence of more than one thing in the world . |
| 22 | DEC 's recent Windows-on-Alpha agreement with Microsoft Corp only drove the nail further into ACE 's OSF coffin . |
| 23 | In 1988 the university purportedly terminated the applicant 's contract of employment not for good cause but on the ground of redundancy , giving him three months ' written notice . |
| 24 | The local authority social work team concerned with J. would have accepted Dr. I. 's advice , but in view of the seriousness of the decision rightly referred the matter to the case review sub-committee consisting of elected councillors . |
| 25 | The turquoise dress she wore was of the kind of stretch cotton which showed up any figure fault and which in this instance merely demonstrated the perfection of her body . |
| 26 | In the minds of many people , Marxism means simple economic determinism : the idea that economics determines everything , that the ‘ superstructure ’ of law , politics and ideology merely reflects the state of the economic ‘ base ’ . |
| 27 | In Martin Luther 's words , just as a mother goes to the cradle only to find the baby , we go to the Bible only to find Christ . |
| 28 | Clause 11 of Precedent 1 is a very short form of confidentiality clause , which is mutually binding , while cl 11.1 of Precedent 2 is inserted by the buyer only to bind the seller . |
| 29 | The pipette shield furthermore enables the operator to view the pipetting operation at eye height , which is usually not possible using conventional shields . |
| 30 | Since , as we have argued , disorder is frequently motivated by the failure to find any other effective voice , media coverage merely perpetuates the problem . |