Example sentences of "[adj] the [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | She says when reactors get old the corrode and radioactive materials get into the body . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Also , the more tranquillizers are used , the older and less effective the plunger becomes , therefore , gradually , the same dose of tablets becomes less and less effective . |
| 7 | Erm the then the seems to us the final er difference between ourselves and the er county council , is the issue of migration and what 's already been referred to as environmental discounts . |
| 8 | This Clean the do I go to Friday nights , Cleaneasy do . |
| 9 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 10 | One gene would control uncapping ; the other the throwing out of the larvae . |
| 11 | After boil-off the hopped wort is cooled and oxygenated en route to fermenting vessel where the magic ingredient , yeast , is added . |
| 12 | Needless the say there were a lot of bad decisions . |