Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb base] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill unleashed from the two-and-nine queue a score of eager young people . |
| 2 | A proviso stipulated though , that should the working produce a profit ( nett ) of £10,000 a year , then be could at the beginning of any of the sub-terms enter as a partner and receive one-third of the nett profit instead of the aforesaid one-quarter ; and to pay a third of the expenses . |
| 3 | Do the unemployed have a work problem ? |
| 4 | Some of the faithful have a theory . |
| 5 | ‘ She is what the English call a chatterbox , I believe . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately , these ideas make a lot more sense in spreadsheets contemplated by bean counters — a special type , as the British enjoy a breakfast consisting of beans and toast — than they do at display counters contemplated by customers . |
| 7 | It 's sobering to note that while the British have a mass of facetious academics for each real intellectual , and hardly any big fat writers on the lines of the US , Angela Carter , at the time of Nights at the Circus , was both these things to a world-class degree . |
| 8 | ‘ The British have a law which allows them to deport people whom they consider to be undesirable aliens . ’ |
| 9 | THE British have a reputation for not complaining . |
| 10 | On Nov. 20 Strauss-Kahn blamed the outcome of the negotiations on the UK 's current presidency of the EC , describing it as " calamitous and claiming that " the British have a way of chairing the Community which puts us in difficulty facing the Americans " . |
| 11 | ‘ Answer me one question : why do the British have a stick up their asses about any local British band that makes it in America ? |
| 12 | We and the British have a lot in common . |
| 13 | Alcatel — which has been working with Chorus since 1989 on its PABXes , will now expand its use of the microkernel to such areas as process control syst ems within power stations and embedded transport control systems - Alcatel products include the French Train a Grande Vitesse . |
| 14 | The French speak a language derived from that small group of speakers of Latin who conquered Gaul at the beginning of the first millennium AD , although they suppose they are descended more from the Gauls than the Romans . |
| 15 | Thus le rugbyman ( as the French call a rugby player ) becomes les rugbymans and they will play in matchs , not matches . |
| 16 | ‘ You think what the French call a coup de foudre is fun ? ’ he protested hoarsely , a hint of rueful humour warming his eyes . |
| 17 | Similarly , the French employ a system using an array of jet engines alongside the airport runway to evaporate dense fog . |
| 18 | The French have a reputation for being one of the most ‘ politicised ’ nations in the world . |
| 19 | The British may say that if the French have a word for it , then le corbeau must be an old French habit . |
| 20 | ‘ The French have a phrase for it : it 's called a coup de foudre . ’ |
| 21 | Certainly in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries no other kadilik approached the status of those of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne — none appears to have attained even the status achieved by Damascus and Aleppo in the sixteenth century — and it therefore seems fairly certain that the 300 akce a day given to the kadis of the three Ottoman capitals represented the highest allowances given to any kadi at that period . |
| 22 | say they not in their expertise , so I mean , it 's just an example of I mean , the old see a tourist shop and then I |
| 23 | All of these bands explicitly lambast indie parochialism and neurotic fear of major label compromise ; all peddle an obsolete notion that the brash and the colourful represent a victory over the hegemony of a vague grey , with the naïve optimism of nineteenth-century dandies . |
| 24 | ‘ The dying have a right to know ’ is the attitude . |
| 25 | Forty eight years after the war , he still believes the Japanese have a debt to pay . |
| 26 | Forty eight years after the war , he still believes the Japanese have a debt to pay . |
| 27 | The Japanese have a habit of scheduling their ‘ breakthroughs ’ in advance , which may seem silly but in practice generally works . |
| 28 | If the Japanese want a government they can be proud of , they must stop voting for permit-wielding , contract-fixing crooks . |
| 29 | Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes . |
| 30 | In the second belong a number of ‘ neo-populist ’ social historians whose primary concern has been to elucidate the distinctive structure and culture of the traditional peasant family farm . |