Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 2 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 3 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 4 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |
| 5 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 6 | This is more prominent in the early stages of the diarrhoeal illness , and returns to near normal by the fourth day , by which time the faecal weights are coming down . |
| 7 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 8 | It is possible , in certain circumstances , again if leave is obtained , to appeal direct from the High Court to the House of Lords , leapfrogging the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 10 | ‘ Mine has been buried beneath your determination to remain free of the female species . ’ |
| 11 | The plot spins endlessly but few people are going to have the stamina to remain interested in the final turns . |
| 12 | The delicate balance of cooperation between them — occurring across the corpus callosum and involving some kind of filtering process — is therefore of crucial importance in allowing the left hemisphere to remain responsive to the right hemisphere 's influence , yet sufficiently in control to avoid overloading of conscious , directed thought . |
| 13 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 14 | Some poor Dutch guy was being ordered by his woman to stand right in the steamy fumes for a photo . |
| 15 | Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) . |
| 16 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 17 | For a short while , the threat drove some Sussex labourers to pull free of the restrictive local consciousness and join the mainstream of English social protest in the 1830s . |
| 18 | United still need the points to pull clear of the dropping zone . |
| 19 | VIC JOBSON , the Southend chairman , has vowed to stand firm against the growing protests of supporters who want David Webb , currently serving out his notice , to stay as manager . |
| 20 | If everything else failed , Nizan was convinced that the Soviet Union could be depended upon to stand resolute against the rising tide of fascist oppression . |
| 21 | But there was a feeling of peace and quiet in those old towns , a silence that was almost tangible , and it was impressive to stand alone beside the fast flowing river and know that one was surrounded by deep forest for hundreds of miles in all directions . |
| 22 | THE LAST batches of refugees to slip loose over the Hungarian border before regulations tightened up again , included an East German thrash metal band . |
| 23 | Therefore , a special change point had to be designed , incorporating a point blade in the conduit , which by the operation of a lever , could either deflect a plough onto the change point or permit it to pass unhindered to the old terminus . |
| 24 | It would enable a third State to stand aloof from the deliberate fashioning of community policy through the treaty-making process , while simultaneously making claims of the creation of norms of customary law . |
| 25 | To pass unscathed into the inner sanctum of the wave is the categorical imperative of surfing . |
| 26 | To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room . |
| 27 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 28 | UNHAPPY rail passengers ' dreams are about to come true with the right sort of leaves on the line . |
| 29 | She looked across and tried to appear careless about the whole thing . |
| 30 | This is the only other Norwegian breed to remain separate from the Norwegian Red but it , too , is now very rare and being inseminated by the Red . |