Example sentences of "the [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 2 | You were n't huddling because of the trying to ease the pain a bit ? |
| 3 | The other approach would be to do some lateral thinking and use the effluent stream containing the caustic to neutralise an acidic effluent stream from another part of the plant . |
| 4 | Next to the shop in Culver Street were six Church almshouses which had been rebuilt in the eighteen-forties to replace the original dwellings . |
| 5 | The twelve member states , by a separate protocol , would authorise the eleven to use the Community 's institutions for the purpose of implementing social policies pursuant to the Social Charter . |
| 6 | And — have I got the right to take the risk ? ’ |
| 7 | A sixteen year old schoolboy has invented a system which enables the deaf to use a phone.It uses the ordinary keypad on the telephone to generate messages on a screen.The invention has gained Richard Mead a place in the finals of a national competition.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 8 | This means that a player ca n't pass back to himself , as it were , run into the '22 to take the pass and then clear his lines . |
| 9 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 10 | If the Macs of the mid-line are on song then I fancy the Scots to nail a win . |
| 11 | In 1548 , therefore , there was no reason for the Scots to fear the alienation of their queen . |
| 12 | Under ERM strong currency nations were forced to help the weak to re-establish the equilibrium of the system , although large-scale fluctuations could lead to an alteration of the ‘ central rate ’ . |
| 13 | As one of their members , Hugh Dalton ( who was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer when family allowances were first paid in 1946 ) wrote in an article advocating family allowances : ‘ We would raid the luxuries of the rich to give a chance of life to children of the poor ’ ( New Leader 29 January 1926 ) . |
| 14 | Some , such as Robert Owen , among socialists , and conservatives such as Thomas Carlyle , had argued from the beginning of industrial capitalism in Britain that the source of the unequal distribution of wealth , income and power lay in the competitive , individualistic nature of the new economic system and the values it perpetuated and strengthened : the emphasis upon individual rather than co-operative effort , upon self-help for all rather than upon mutual obligation , such as the responsibility of the rich to help the poor in return for their labour . |
| 15 | Richard Baxter observed the truth of our Lord 's teaching that it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven , but the poor received the Gospel gladly . |
| 16 | It 's easier for the rich to get a loan ! |
| 17 | Damascus urged the Lebanese to allow the PLO to continue operations from southern Lebanon while ordering the Syrian security services to ensure that no such activity could be undertaken by Palestinians from Syrian territory . |
| 18 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 19 | Efforts by some of the faithful to arbitrate a settlement between the two men failed and Ali died in obscure circumstances in 661 . |
| 20 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 21 | For goodness sake , why should small city-centre hotels have to operate restaurants or be forced into stupid little half-measures such as the aforementioned to get a rating ? |
| 22 | Just as the word ‘ scientist ’ was being coined in the 1830s to express a new feeling of community , specialized societies and journals were coming into being for astronomers , entomologists , chemists and other groups . |
| 23 | Mr Saleh said : ‘ He was the youngest to have the treatment and still is . ’ |
| 24 | The son of a Saxon clergyman turned schoolmaster , Boelcke was now twenty-five , had already shot down nine planes and was the youngest to win the ‘ Pour le Mérite ’ . |
| 25 | On 30 November Edmund died , Cnut had little difficulty persuading the English to ignore the claims of his relatives , and the country was re-united under his rule . |
| 26 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 27 | As a result it would be possible for the French at some future date to renew their claim to sovereignty over Aquitaine , and for the English to do the same in respect of the crown of France . |
| 28 | The apparent failure of the English to contain the Irish reveals a great deal of weakness about the English in Spenser 's eyes . |
| 29 | The air which he breathed was that of the famous treatise on the resting places of the old English saints , and of the days when , in Eadmer 's words , ‘ it was the custom of the English to prefer the patronage of the saints to every worldly aid ’ . |
| 30 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |