Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
| 2 | As the man withdrew as silently as he had arrived , Joan was surprised to find herself alone with the young king . |
| 3 | She had an exhaustive knowledge of Sunday Schools and it was depressing to find him full of the same bogus affability that she detected on every Sabbath of the year . |
| 4 | Well he 'd have to process his direct like the two for one voucher or something like that |
| 5 | Eventually teachers were able to shake themselves free of the legal requirement to supervise at lunchtime , though the responsibility tor the good management of the school during the break still remains with the headteacher . |
| 6 | Now it is time to shake yourself free from the gentle form of the dove . |
| 7 | We would have preferred to choose them all as the German Rose of Tralee , ’ |
| 8 | they would have to arrest everyone responsible for the present crises . |
| 9 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 10 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 11 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 12 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 13 | ‘ May I take this opportunity to thank you all for the good work you are doing and assure you of my prayers . ’ |
| 14 | So here we are at the end of 1992 and I should like to thank you all for the tremendous hard work you have put into it . |
| 15 | Everyone pushes out the boat to look their best on the Big Day — so imagine what it must be like if money 's no object . |
| 16 | ‘ I am trying to suggest that since it is clear that Artai wants you out of Kinsai , you ought to think about asking him to award you one of the new Khanates . |
| 17 | That ought to be enough to bargain myself clear of the whole mess . |
| 18 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 19 | Lovely , very , very , good indeed , that , that is there now , sounds very good , just , erm , a few little things , would you try to give me more on the fifth finger , the E , the E flat , there , think of a crescendo , to that , want that come out , then , then it will , erm , I 'm almost frightened to put a crescendo in because it was n't the , a big one . |
| 20 | Emil briefly consulted a notebook , stowed his travel bag on a rack in a small bedroom and directed me to put my big in the one next door . |
| 21 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 22 | When my brother looked through his new spectacles into the Cinemascope format of the wide mirror I saw that he gently let his lower jaw fall a little so as to give himself more of the thin-faced appearance of Hank R Marvin in Summer Holiday . |
| 23 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 24 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 26 | They have had to learn to live with one another , to adjust , to get used to each other 's habits , hobbies , friends and relations — the most crucial and critical period for every newly married couple — but they have had to do it all under the full glare of the media . |
| 27 | Right it 's going to do it ninth of the fourth ninety three . |
| 28 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 29 | For example , if no one has yet discovered the principle of the lens , it is difficult to invent the telescope ; if you want to erect an astronomical observatory , therefore , you have to do your best with the current technology — in other words , build Stonehenge or some similar megalithic monument . |
| 30 | I was frequently told of the necessity for study overseas in order to do anything worthwhile in the academic field because facilities in China were so ‘ backward ’ . |