Example sentences of "the [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These failures arose not only from Edward 's lack of adequate financial resources , but also from the effectiveness of Philip VI 's resistance and the reluctance of the English to take on the French in pitched battle , as the stand-off at Buironfosse showed . |
| 2 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 3 | It will allow the MDC to hand over the land at Herculaneum Dock to private companies which would finance development projects in return . |
| 4 | In Britain the ILP and the Communist Party were naturally the first to take up the call for united action . |
| 5 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 6 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 7 | Newly refurbished and the first to show off the new logo , the Bath Road store 's being hailed as a model for Co-Ops to come — proof , says the company , that it 's serious about shedding that fuddy duddy image once . |
| 8 | It enabled the committed to track down the less committed , and to identify ‘ the enemy ’ . |
| 9 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 10 | SATURDAY , AM Neighbourhood clean-up patrols gather by the thousands to sweep up the mess . |