Example sentences of "[vb -s] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ORCHESTRE : [ Rousseau gives ten reasons why the Paris Opéra orchestra makes the least effect of any European orchestra , the seventh of which is ] the unendurable noise of the baton which covers and deadens the whole effect of the ensemble . |
| 2 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 3 | stuff 's no problem but er once it starts and get the medium stuff done as well |
| 4 | Nothing much different inside , either ; still looks and smells the same : polished parquet flooring , sumptuous but fading old rugs , assorted mostly very old furniture , lots of big houseplants on the floor and time-dulled landscapes and portraits on the wood-panelled walls . |
| 5 | When eating small mammals , it frequently strips and eats the soft parts from the carcase discarding the skin and bones , and it sometimes accomplishes this in a most peculiar fashion . |
| 6 | It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things . |
| 7 | Such vivid , metaphoric language epitomizes and illustrates the ultimate truths and values of the police world . |
| 8 | The priest who is thought of as a man who goes into poor areas and preaches and helps the needy and the poor as Saint Francis did , is showing rich tourists paintings . |
| 9 | Analogue design remains important because it accommodates and defines the basic building blocks of electronics . |
| 10 | Text retrieval seeks to interpret what the user says and retrieve the appropriate document from the database . |
| 11 | The pornographic monologue of the monk 's expressed thoughts soon turns into a pornographic play , in the dialogue between monk and wife whereby each tests and reassures the other that their desires , and their readiness to hide those desires under the dissimulation of a financial bargain , match . |
| 12 | The avowed programme of Montjoie was to find the link between various arts and to investigate their common tendencies , and Canudo invented the term ‘ cérébrisme ’ to describe this attitude : ‘ Montjoie is the mouthpiece of Cerebrist art , for Cerebrism , according to its own definition , embraces and explains the entire artistic evolution of our age during the past forty years , and in the widest sense , being an aesthetic that is indissolubly cerebral and sensual — against all sentimentality in art and life . ’ |
| 13 | The federal government also plans and builds the largest and most expensive central facilities with the active participation of the state governments , who can also be persuaded to find fairly large experimental facilities at universities . |
| 14 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 15 | JACK BANNISTER clarifies and identifies the continuing weaknesses |
| 16 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 17 | Junctions which are initially SX create more disturbance , are transformed to either XS or XX puckers and push the facing junction in the direction of smaller ε-ζ values ( between 26° and -12° ) . |
| 18 | A Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister , Liu Huaqiu , summoned the US ambassador in Beijing , Stapleton Roy , on Sept. 3 and told him that the US decision " grossly interferes in China 's internal affairs , seriously jeopardizes Sino-US relations and obstructs and undermines the great cause of China 's peaceful reunification " . |
| 19 | Bono understands and relishes the positive subversive possibilities of pop , and realises the piercing edge it should have over the advertising poster , the average sitcom . |
| 20 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 21 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 23 | First we should discuss the atmosphere , and how it intercepts and modifies the various radiations . |
| 24 | In its inaugural declaration the DLP promised to achieve a " new national history of democracy , prosperity and national reunification " , and to operate as a " reform-oriented democratic party which protects and promotes the liberal democratic political system and free market system " . |
| 25 | Check that the directory exists and has the correct protection for LIFESPAN to access it . |
| 26 | ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS The Princess Royal , Patron , The British Nutrition Foundation , today visits the Foundation 's Conference for Teachers of Nutrition at Exeter Court Hotel , Kenford , Exeter , Devon ; as President , The Save the Children Fund , visits the Save the Children Fund Shop , 17 Paris Street , Exeter , Devon ; and , as President , the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , attends and presents the Annual Tribute Award at the Odeon , Leicester Square , London W1 . |
| 27 | The Princess Royal , President , Save the Children Fund , visits the Save the Children Fund Shop at 104 High Street , Orpington , Kent ; opens and tours the new Head Office Building of the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , Watling Street , Bexleyheath , Kent , and receives a cheque from the employees for the Save the Children Fund ; as Chancellor , London University , visits the Institute of Zoology , London Zoo , Regent 's Park , in celebration of the accession of the Institute of Zoology of the Royal Zoological Society to the University of London ; and , this evening , as Patron , The British Nutrition Foundation , attends a dinner at the Natural History Museum , South Kensington , London SW7 . |
| 28 | As this current reaches a peak value , the contact breaker mechanism ( which is driven by a rotating cam ) opens and interrupts the primary current . |
| 29 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 30 | She characterizes it as a ‘ micropolitical structure ’ in itself , which ‘ underlies and supports the macropolitical structure ’ ; and she alleges that it lies at a ‘ crucial point ’ ( 1977 : 179 , 191 ) between open , and concealed , political control and resistance . |