Example sentences of "[adj] the [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1272 the see of Canterbury was vacant and the pope provided the Dominican prior-provincial , Robert Kilwardby , an academic theologian , after setting aside both the chapter 's choice of its prior and the king 's favourite , Robert Burnell . |
| 2 | First race there twelve fifty the going at the moment is good but they have had a quarter of an inch of rain overnight so of course I suppose there 's every chance it could go to good to soft by this afternoon . |
| 3 | A person who drew on someone 's bank account was assuming the rights of the owner , and to be guilty the accused did not have to assume all rights of the owner . |
| 4 | Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment . |
| 5 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 6 | About half the captured Africans survived the rigours of capture , passage , seasoning and eventually worked on plantations and , Kane concludes : ‘ only the strongest survived . ’ |
| 7 | She says when reactors get old the corrode and radioactive materials get into the body . |
| 8 | Among management practitioners and government advisors the consensus of opinion was that if manufacturing industry could become more flexible it would be more responsive the perceived more turbulent market environment of the 1980s and 90s . |
| 9 | Guido ripped free the dangling drunken door like a man putting out of its misery a fatally wounded animal , and looked down at the broken pieces in his hand . |
| 10 | The brisker the bleeding the quicker it should stop . |
| 11 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 12 | So , the bigger the kill the better . |
| 13 | This unusual state of events is brought about by the fact that in 1822 the subscribed fund was invested and the winner receives the interest . |
| 14 | Encouraged by victory in the election , Roosevelt persuaded Congress to accept in March 1941 the Lend Lease scheme for supplying military and other goods to any nation whose defence the President considered vital to the United States . |
| 15 | In March 1941 the Lend Lease scheme made this ideal a reality for America 's allies . |
| 16 | All the splashing over me ! |
| 17 | Two hours later we weighed anchor , drew out into the dirty , oil-stained river and moved slowly downstream along London 's crowded waterfront , passing other ships , docks , warehouses , cranes , wagons and lorries , and all the come and go of men associated with the sea . |
| 18 | Over it all the fanning whispering seed and the tenuous mist cast a sheen of silver . |
| 19 | Afterwards , the exposed board is processed with a readily available developer which will wash away all the etch-resist that was exposed to UV light . |
| 20 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 21 | Let's get all the get the sound , now will you buy this and this is the price you ca n't do it with advertising . |
| 22 | not for dinner , but all the came |
| 23 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 24 | Then something snapped inside him ; all the choked up hatred he had for Luke suddenly spewed out . |
| 25 | Eleanor had discussed this reaction with Nigel , hoping that he 'd volunteer to do all the phoning in future , but he just assured her that his marriage was an open one . |
| 26 | And if you 're to try and fill her shoes , which I very much doubt you 'll ever do , but if you 're to be even half the woman that she was , may God have mercy on her , then you 'll need all the reminding I can give you . ’ |
| 27 | Every X , X doe X saw herself cos all the does are standing around looking at the lake , seeing their reflections so there is just a quantifier . |
| 28 | And of course the erm , those sort with all the redden in them , muddly blue flames and they keep spitting and given pretty , pretty pictures , it 's gorgeous . |
| 29 | He says all the frees , firty free . |
| 30 | her dancing shoe makes all the impress |