Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or huge satin ballgown skirts in shocking pink or lilac satin topped with rib-hugging knits for the new dance-in-a-cold-climate look . |
| 2 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 3 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 4 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 5 | Later , there followed competition wins for the Catholic Apostolic church , Edinburgh ( 1871–3 ) , Edinburgh school board schools ( 1874–7 ) , and Edinburgh University medical schools ( 1874–86 ) . |
| 6 | Survey formrs for the 1993 Good beer Guide will be dispatched to branches in late October . |
| 7 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 8 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 9 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
| 10 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
| 11 | Matthey Electronics Burslem has for the third successive year won the prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety . |
| 12 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 13 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 14 | Its leader , Slobodan Milosevic ( ‘ Slobo ’ to his friends ) , has for the past three years resisted any idea of a looser Yugoslavia . |
| 15 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 16 | Interview he sez ICI has for the last two decades looked at ways of helping the environment . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 18 | Calypso is a specifically Trinidadian musical form , but just as later Jamaican reggae stands as the archetypal Black music , so in this period does calypso . |
| 19 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
| 20 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
| 21 | English has about the same lix level as the Nordic languages and this enabled Bjornsson to compare Scandinavian newspapers with those from English-speaking countries . |
| 22 | For the school library , through books , films , recordings , and other materials , goes beyond the requirements of the instructional program , and unfolds for the many private quests of children and young people the imagination of mankind . |
| 23 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 24 | It counts as the 20th Ecumenical Council . |
| 25 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 26 | It looks for the Highest Common Factor ( HCF ) and seeks to promote that . |
| 27 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 28 | Sale starts during the first two weeks in January . |
| 29 | A ball is deemed to be in a lateral water hazard if it lies between the parallel red stakes marking the boundary of the lateral water hazard , whether or not the ball lies in the water or on the surrounding bank . |
| 30 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |