Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 2 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 3 | These three carry on the irresponsible practical jokes and illicit enterprises of their seniors , borrowing boats while in harbour and exploring themselves into danger , invariably rescued by improbably patient sailors . |
| 4 | Countries with large commercial-debt problems will get no help from the Brady plan unless , like Mexico , they take on the drastic economic reforms that western governments demand as the price of their support . |
| 5 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 6 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 7 | Neville suggested he might write something on the Eye , to take on the ageing young men of Greek Street . |
| 8 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 9 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |
| 10 | These products , claim the manufacturers , prevent crust formation and solids settlement without the need for agitation , thus permitting easy and total emptying of the slurry store , digesting the solid material and biochemically breaking down the odorous chemical molecules . |
| 11 | As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs , he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle . |
| 12 | I 'm concerned that we give our three children the right education and lay down the best possible plans for the future . |
| 13 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 14 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 15 | The dungeons of the Louvre Palace were the antechambers of hell though very few of those who went down the dark stony steps ever emerged to recount their experiences . |
| 16 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |
| 17 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 18 | Slowed by the blossoming pain in his injured leg , he supported himself with a hand on the rough stone wall and stumbled down the remaining few steps . |
| 19 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 20 | As we were clattering down the worn red tiles of the corridor , a junior aide bumped into De Gaulle , apologising with great profuseness . |
| 21 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Sir Jimmy Savile says he wants to close down the world-famous Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but only because he 'd like the hospital to run out of patients . |
| 23 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 24 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 25 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 26 | I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps . |
| 27 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 28 | ‘ Take down the last three torches . ’ |
| 29 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 30 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |