Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils become involved in the collection and manipulation of data and are motivated validity of the end product so that projects lose the contrived which marred many projects in the past . |
| 2 | For our parse , we can choose the largest which satisfies this condition . |
| 3 | He thought the right one seemed weak . |
| 4 | The right one seems worse . ’ |
| 5 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 6 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
| 7 | I think the longest one lasted more than half an hour . |
| 8 | The new ones , I mean , the youngest they 've all got a , erm , different , they 've all got different |
| 9 | Yet the quicker they become local the greater the risk of degrading themselves to the styles and practices of their local rivals , losing the differences that account for their superiority . |
| 10 | The quicker you do that the better chances will be of getting your money back . |
| 11 | Get your tracksuit on as soon as possible ; the quicker you do this , the less stiffness you will feel post-race . |
| 12 | In spite of so many hopes of a new order the old one proved tough enough to survive essentially unchanged . |
| 13 | But most of the ions and electrons are deflected , and of the few which penetrate most do so up the magnetotail . |
| 14 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 15 | The few who discovered this later naturally felt that this part of their training was not helpful . |
| 16 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
| 17 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |
| 18 | Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen , and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write . |
| 19 | She had intended to take a bus , but in the dark everything looked unfamiliar and slightly forbidding . |
| 20 | Rick Deckard must ‘ retire ’ the six who remain free . |
| 21 | The phrase " win money by betting " covers the accused who deceives another into accepting a wager . |
| 22 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 23 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 24 | In the second he stood bareheaded , dressed in a swirling black cloak , fastened at the throat by a gold and enamel clasp . |
| 25 | And Sam says , ‘ Well , in the first one I liked this moment , and in the second I liked this . ’ |
| 26 | This chapter looks at the development of a conservative fascist tradition and the following one assesses racial nationalism . |
| 27 | Who needs a toy telephone , when the real one makes such great noises ? |
| 28 | ‘ We have only advertised two posts in the past year , the previous one attracted 300 applicants . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 30 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |