Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't huddling because of the trying to ease the pain a bit ? |
| 2 | Talk of the 17th prompted the comment in the 1913 suggestion book as to whether the 2nd hole might not become the 17th and the 3rd hole the 2nd , a not uncommon suggestion today . |
| 3 | William III , helped by the ‘ Protestant wind ’ that kept the English navy pinned in harbour while William 's Dutch fleet could choose a convenient place to land , was able to carry out a successful invasion with quite a substantial military force , so the events of the 1680s underlined the possibility that James II might be able to make a successful return from exile . |
| 4 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 5 | I was probably the eagerest volunteer the Trust had ever had . |
| 6 | Although the organized activists were not on the whole the very poor , the poorest joined the demonstration . |
| 7 | A punitive approach to the poorest survived the accumulation of indications that much even of the worst poverty was not self-inflicted , but derived from the inability of the market to provide sufficient homes , jobs or adequate incomes . |
| 8 | Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process , clothes are getting easier and easier to make , cheaper and cheaper , so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to , whereas in earlier times , if you wore a woollen dress , it had been you know , you know , somebody had done the sheep for you , had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you . |
| 9 | The twelve member states , by a separate protocol , would authorise the eleven to use the Community 's institutions for the purpose of implementing social policies pursuant to the Social Charter . |
| 10 | The Spanish opposed the introduction of majority voting in the Council of Ministers on environmental laws unless a special fund was set up to help poorer countries meet EC standards . |
| 11 | On the Spanish left the period between the November 1933 election and the end of 1935 became known as the bienio negro , the ‘ two black years ’ , during which the reforms of 1931–3 were reversed or flouted , socio-economic power reverted sharply to landlords and employers , the left itself experienced unprecedented repression and the seeds of civil war were decisively sown . |
| 12 | The Spanish think the Community should aim for a common defence policy . |
| 13 | ‘ For instance , there was one little overdubbing room in Air studios which was tiny — it was about as big as an armchair — but we used to put the AC30 in there and put the mic facing the window and get this amazing sound . |
| 14 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 15 | One of the eight described the importance of the school for the flow of information through the community . |
| 16 | On the allied left the course of battle had fluctuated throughout the day . |
| 17 | And — have I got the right to take the risk ? ’ |
| 18 | The close correspondence of diversity increase with rise of sea level in the Cambrian suggests the possibility of a causal correlation ( Brasier , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | In the case of the first one to be founded after 1850 — Dundee in 1853 — a deaf person , Alexander Drysdale who was then headmaster of the Dundee School for the Deaf took the lead to establish an adult mission . |
| 20 | Since the insertion of the dielectric increased the surface charge density on the plates by a factor with the voltage remaining unchanged , we may conclude that the capacitance has also increased by the same factor , yielding |
| 21 | The 1560s marked the beginning of a period of economic dislocation and social upheaval which stunted the development of Muscovy 's fragile ‘ proto-bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 22 | The modernisation programme in the Thirties involved the introduction , not only of the single-deck railcoaches , but also some types uniquely suited to the seaside . |
| 23 | This means that a player ca n't pass back to himself , as it were , run into the '22 to take the pass and then clear his lines . |
| 24 | From Stop Your Fussin , with a subtle reggae beat to the haunting Where 's The Ocean and finally the memorable Let The Rain Come Down , insinuating animation and acquiescence from a failed relationship , the album is tremendously good and truely ambitious . |
| 25 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 26 | In 1548 , therefore , there was no reason for the Scots to fear the alienation of their queen . |
| 27 | Under ERM strong currency nations were forced to help the weak to re-establish the equilibrium of the system , although large-scale fluctuations could lead to an alteration of the ‘ central rate ’ . |
| 28 | The rich receive the bulk of SERPS pay-outs . |
| 29 | Neil McKendrick has said of his " consumer revolution " that the rich led the way in the 1760s and 1770s with an " orgy of spending " on their magnificent houses . |
| 30 | Richard Baxter observed the truth of our Lord 's teaching that it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven , but the poor received the Gospel gladly . |