Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and that each remain the same thing although being described by a variety of different er descriptions . |
| 2 | Half load The half-load facility allows you to wash six place settings using just one basket ( usually the bottom one ) without wasting detergent , water or energy . |
| 3 | Some say the failed policy was really that of John Major , as shown by his devotion to the Maastricht Treaty which would lead to Monetary union . |
| 4 | You half expect the next song to start anyway because there are batteries in it , but , instead : silence . |
| 5 | MORE than half say the new system imposes excessive administrative work . |
| 6 | Few want the wholesale repeal of industrial relations legislation . |
| 7 | Some welcome the brief diversion that the jamboree will bring and the possibility of earning some money ; others recall the lines of a local saying ‘ The soil of my country is purer than gold ’ . |
| 8 | Owned and bred in Ireland by Major Eustace Loder ( she was foaled only two years after Sceptre ( see pages 18–19 ) ) and trained at Newmarket by Peter Purcell Gilpin , she made her racecourse debut in the British Dominion Two-Year-Old Plate at Sandown Park in June 1903 and turned in an electrifying performance to win by an official margin of ten lengths — though some put the correct distance at nearly a hundred yards ! |
| 9 | There is no text entry for ‘ dinosaur ’ , but the index gives 11 references that together cover these creatures thoroughly , although some reveal the British distaste for an impact as the cause of the Cretaceous/Tertiary extinction . |
| 10 | By contrast , nearly two-thirds of American users of fixed-sum instalment credit , at least where the original sum owed is over $200 , have bought insurance , generally paying extra — only a few consider the extra cost expensive , and the great majority of shoppers there ( 94 per cent of those who offered an opinion ) regard credit insurance as a good thing . |
| 11 | Some accept the secondary status the discipline allocates them . |
| 12 | Cases like this indicate the general validity of the method , although there is still a need to establish the limits of its accuracy . |
| 13 | Some overlook the inner well of the building adorned with hanging baskets . |
| 14 | The hermeneutic code raises questions , delays their answers and leads to solutions and as such structures in some measure the succeeding narrative . |
| 15 | The future for Britain 's mines has never looked so black , but some believe the future safety of miners is just as threatened . |
| 16 | Some believe the British approach is wrong |
| 17 | Some believe the exploding glass may have come from China and Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | As Rushdie and recession deepen hostility to race equality legislation , few believe the new government will do more than seek greater managerial competence from the Commission for Racial Equality while encouraging those blacks who can be multicultural Tory role models . |
| 19 | Most expect to meet the out-of-pocket expenses of the job themselves , but some feel the whole business is getting too costly . |
| 20 | What some think the best system , the single transferable vote ( STV — see box ) , is indeed complex . |
| 21 | Some choose the programmable route , succeeding or failing on user-friendliness ; others , like Carvin , have provided minimum programmability , but have kept the unit looking and responding like an ordinary amp , with multi-channel operation relied upon to provide the goods . |
| 22 | Some regard the mandatory penalty for murder as the chief , even the sole , reason for these doctrines . |
| 23 | Some join the Sealed Knot to ensure that history is not forgotten … others because they enjoy a good bundle . |
| 24 | The SSD 's preventive strategy is directed towards those children and their families where there is likelihood of damage … bringing them into care at some achieve the minimum amount of intervention necessary to preserve the child 's place within the family . |
| 25 | Some manuscripts of Scale 1 contain neither the passage on the Holy Name nor the insertions ; some have the Holy Name passage but not the shorter additions ; some have both ; still others have the insertions but not the passage on the Holy Name . |
| 26 | Some have the full range of infrastructural provision enabling them to accommodate all but the heaviest industries , while others are capable of occupation only by light industry or warehouses . |
| 27 | Although few have the physical strength to repel their attackers , even a relatively feeble animal can deter aggressors if it has chemical weapons . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , her descriptions of specialist homes show that few are specially designed and few have the enhanced staffing levels that would be necessary for specialist care . |
| 29 | This establish the American artist 's reputation amongst British patrons . |
| 30 | It was in the course of one such exercise the British engineer Frederick Gisborne decided to span the Atlantic Ocean by submarine cable . |