Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemists know that oxygen-free climates like this tend to foster the spontaneous synthesis of organic compounds . |
| 2 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 3 | Many would argue that the idea of permissiveness has been overstated , exaggerated or misapplied , but few seem to doubt the underlying reality of this supposedly permissive Britain of the 1960s . |
| 4 | Some like to avoid the worst of city centre traffic , while those who work on tidal rivers have to time their sampling to coincide with low water , since many discharges are only accessible then . |
| 5 | Some try to get the legal approval ; others simply ignore it . |
| 6 | In place of vague ideological statements and piecemeal policies the primary sector now needs a substantial programme of professional development and support aimed at enhancing the curriculum expertise of all its primary staff , and targeted in the first instance on those aspects of the curriculum where studies like this have identified the greatest problems . |
| 7 | Some have adopted the relevant clothing … |
| 8 | Some have taken the official statistics at their face value and suggested that such violence is the infrequent action of a few psychologically disturbed men . |
| 9 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 10 | Some have hailed the amateur porn videos as a visionary art form whose ‘ fuck commodity culture ! ’ attitude subverts the powers that be . |
| 11 | Most people who use an analogue mobile phone have at some time been unhappy with the call quality , and an unfortunate few have experienced the unpleasant side effects of deliberate or accidental ‘ eavesdropping ’ . |
| 12 | The greatest number of Contracting States have designated their Ministries of Justice ( or some organ of the Ministry , for example the French Ministry 's specialist bureau de l'entraide judiciaire internationale ) ; a substantial group of countries have placed the Central Authority within the courts service ( for example the Netherlands ' designation of the Officier van Justitie or public prosecutor attached to the District Court of The Hague ) ; and relatively few have retained the Foreign Ministry . |
| 13 | The makers of sanitary towels have promoted their wares in a number of ingenious ways over the years , but few have shown the same initiative as that of Southall Brothers and Barclay of Birmingham who , in July 1888 , took up one third of the back cover of The Antiquary with an advertisement . |
| 14 | These seem to have the curious property that , although they can move fairly freely within a hadron , it appears to be impossible to obtain just one quark on its own ; they always come either in groups of three ( like the proton or neutron ) or in pairs consisting of a quark and antiquark ( like the pi meson ) . |
| 15 | Although we are unable to ascertain the price increases for the various insurance companies in Northern Ireland and Great Britain as we can in the Republic of Ireland , nevertheless our research does indicate that even after allowing for these rate increases the cumulative increase for Autocover in Northern Ireland and Great Britain since the commencement of the scheme is significantly less than the average increase charged by most other insurance companies during the same period . |
| 16 | These have replaced the indigenous species , some of which , for example gumwood ( Commidendrum robustum ) , scrubwood ( C. rotundifolium ) and ebony ( Trochetiopsis melanoxylon alt . |
| 17 | Regan declares it to the man himself ( V.i.6ff. ) , as the egoism they each pursue turns the two sisters into deadly rivals ( 15f. , 18f . ) . |
| 18 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 19 | Where members of the group all tend to think the same way , you do n't get new id , new ideas are challenged . |
| 20 | Generally speaking , wild antelopes , sheep and goats all tend to have the right-hand helix ( as defined above for the screw ) on the left side of the head and vice versa ( heteronymous ) , whereas the opposite is often true for domesticated sheep and goats ( homonymous ) . |
| 21 | If there are many cable crossovers the loose tension will hardly show and will certainly make the knitting easier , but where there are few cables and a lot of plain knitting the looseness of the plain knitting will take over and make the work look faulty . |
| 22 | Surely we all want to achieve the same objectives , an end to recession , low unemployment , a prosperous and fair economy , good education , training and health care . |
| 23 | In an obvious respect all three are similar : all seek to justify the same discriminatory practice and all three have emerged from the same institution which practices discrimination . |
| 24 | I am sure this is a trend we all applaud providing the necessary staffing and facilities are made available . |
| 25 | Thus the archaeocyathids ( or Pleospogia ) of the Cambrian , certain brachiopods and forams in the Permian and the rudistid bivalves in the Cretaceous all seem to parallel the present equator . |
| 26 | People without any education at all seem to offer the best hope . |
| 27 | So , after instigating a revival of the widest flares since Slade and The Sweet first strutted their stuff , they 're all set to do the same for drainpipes . |
| 28 | Lotty 's pompous lawyer spouse Mellersh ( Alfred Molina ) , Rose 's unfaithful writer husband Frederick ( Jim Broadbent ) and half-blind castle owner George Briggs ( Michael Kitchen ) all arrive to find the redemptive power of love or romance . |
| 29 | There is an unbelievable variety of skeg shapes available which all aim to do the same job , namely , keep the board sailing in a straight line . |
| 30 | Explaining plans for a market economy , Gorbachev declared that diverse forms of ownership and management ranging from state-owned enterprises to co-operatives or family farms " all serve to strengthen the democratic pillars of society , since the working people become genuine masters of the means of production and the results of their work , and have a personal stake in efficient performance and high ultimate results " . |