Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His running tore QPR to shreds and he took a Waddle ball after 30 minutes to go down the left and set up Bright for a virtual tap in , his eighth goal in 14 games . |
| 2 | The reaction was an uproar : Sir Keith had managed to offend both the left and the right , as well as touching on two taboos in one theme : sex and class . |
| 3 | It is nonetheless an unavoidable predicament for those working in the field of arts education to encounter if their aim to encourage both the personal and social enrichment of their pupils is to be fulfilled . |
| 4 | Birds possess a similar skill as you will discover if you try to dismantle even the untidiest and most apparently haphazard of twig nests . |
| 5 | Leader of the Council Coun Michael Carr said : ‘ In particular we wish to widen both the commercial and cultural role of the town centre in the life of people in the region . |
| 6 | In early September north European government officials meeting in Ronneby , Sweden , agreed to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Baltic and to halve the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 8 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 9 | Only in this way , Brunner felt , could a theology based , quite properly , on the revelation in Jesus be preserved from operating in a vacuum , and enabled to open up the apologetic and educational perspectives essential to the missionary and pastoral work of the church . |
| 10 | The struggle systematically to open up the domestic and intimate relations of the normal kin-based nuclear household is premised on the belief that what is chiefly at fault with the conventional family household is that it is excessively closed and rigid . |
| 11 | To counter both the Gaullist and the communist threats , they passed a new electoral law , whose aim was to make it harder for the RPF or the PCF to win a majority . |
| 12 | But with police assistance , out went the occupiers , off to set up the one and only edition of the International Free Press from a distributors ' warehouse off Old Street . |
| 13 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 14 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |
| 15 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 16 | Despite the media army , it is becoming more and more difficult for the Allies to cover up the ancient and ruthless strategy of global domination and exploitation underlying their actions . |
| 17 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 18 | Their task was not limited to the granting of coats of arms ; they had to be experts in recognising such armorials to identify both the dead and those who performed noble ( and base ) deeds in war . |
| 19 | There are also plans for the commissariat to help out the large but troubled medical electronics firm Compangnie Générale de Radiologie . |
| 20 | It is n't a good idea to draw a sketch first of how you want the finished work to look , since it never seems to look quite the same when it is finished . |
| 21 | It was Dick Graham who paired Brian with Alan Stephenson to form probably the earliest and certainly one of the most effective central defensive partnerships at the Palace . |
| 22 | It refused to let back the 300,000 or so who crossed to the East Bank during or after the 1967 war , but it allowed 100,000 ‘ summer visitors ’ to cross each year to maintain contact with their families . |
| 23 | Ardrey may well have a point here , but there is no way we can afford to leave out the social and political ( or ‘ cultural ’ ) relations and processes underlying such conflicts . |
| 24 | Once you come into contact with the other side you can drop down into command the individual tanks and engage in fast armoured conflict — the controls here do take some getting used to , although you can opt to assign either the driving or firing to the computer . |
| 25 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 26 | I do not have time to debate now the Further and Higher Education Bill . |
| 27 | At some stage in almost every case it is worth while pausing to review transactions , to consider afresh the erstwhile or present relationship between client and parents and to apply this consideration to the current social worker-client relationship . |
| 28 | The chairman of the Conservative party , the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , and the hon. Member for Stockton , South have tried to knock down the political and economic case for regional policy that has been advanced by the Labour party . |
| 29 | Because of this it is particularly important in devising an effective social policy to meet the financial problems of old age to consider both the long-term and the short-term aspects . |
| 30 | Within a wider social framework , we need to study both the formal and informal modes of the regulation of sexuality . |