Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 2 | The commission has responsibility for appointing auditors for local authorities using either the District Auditor service or auditors from the private sector . |
| 3 | The cash-and-carry transactions used to determine the CTD bond for a given futures price can also be used to determine the fair price of the futures contract once the price of the CTD bond is known . |
| 4 | Antwerp offers both the Renaissance architecture of a Bruges or a Ghent and the café culture of a Paris or a Barcelona . |
| 5 | BBC entertainment chief Jim Moir announced yesterday the programme will run until at least April 1994 . |
| 6 | These shepherds would stop for both rest and prayer using both the chapel and the Black Boy opposite . |
| 7 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 8 | In the New Testament , however , faith is synonymous with the obedience of faith , so that faith involves both the understanding and the will . |
| 9 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 10 | All the variety and wit , also the musical sense , I found wanting in Nucci ( Decca ) is displayed here , placing Bruson almost in the class of Tibbett ( Panizza/Music and Arts ) and Valdengo ( Toscanini/RCA ) in the two historic sets recently issued on CD , and — like those baritones — Bruson has precisely the weight the role calls for . |
| 11 | We approached the problem in a different way , using a retrograde transneuronal tracer from cortex to retina to relate directly the number of ganglion cells projecting to marked areas of striate cortex . |
| 12 | I believe in my heart and soul that everyone has an equal responsibility to work together the peace and harmony of this world . |
| 13 | Luce caught only the tail-end of Rosa 's murmur as the housekeeper slipped out , closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 14 | What had taken place was that the Viennese Bürgertum had rejected large parts of liberal values to accept substantially the Catholic , baroque , and aestheticist tradition of the court aristocracy . |
| 15 | The later Thomson story illustrates also the volatility of the conglomerate in the 1980s . |
| 16 | Nutty found both the running and swimming hard , but had no option but to keep up with the boys . |
| 17 | The story exhibits just the type of learning and experimentation that one would expect from incrementalism , except that , in the Honda case , the experiments were being conducted for real , not just in the executives ' minds prior to decision , and the process did not seem all that logical . |
| 18 | Altman strips away the pretence and mythology to expose the film industry as precisely that ; a business like any other , dedicated to the pursuit of profit . |
| 19 | But against the poverty of God 's hope stands again the faith of Moses . |
| 20 | However , tests showed that a faster schedule could be operated with a train of Gresley 's comfortable coaches seating double the number of passengers and hauled by one of his steam ‘ Pacific ’ type locomotives . |
| 21 | ‘ It does not ease the problem of making the age of every male animal available to its buyer and the ministry has neither the cash nor the staff resources to overcome this , ’ said Mr Cowan . |
| 22 | John Routly , the Ffestiniog Railway chairman , recently told members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society : ‘ Discussions are taking place between us the Welsh Highland and Gwynedd County Council , the aim being to create a divisional board representing both the FR and WHR to take over responsibility for the Welsh Highland if the Minister of Transport makes the transfer . |
| 23 | Three different circuits were used : The Outer Circuit ( the full course ) measured 4.45 km ( 2.77 miles ) ; the Short Course took in everything except the Home Banking , and was 4.21 km ( 2.62 miles ) long ; and the Mountain Course used only the Home Banking and Finishing Straight and measured 1.88 km ( 1.17 miles ) . |
| 24 | If the front wheel turns then the brake is not working properly . |
| 25 | It is the intention to monitor constantly the level and type of equipment carried and in fact three of the buses have recently been equipped with Computer Aided Design . |
| 26 | Trainer John Hills had high hopes of winning the Ebor with Castoret , but by the time the horse got clear the race was over . |
| 27 | 6 The defender drives home the turning kick to the head . |
| 28 | The WEA shared both the relief and the reservations : duly expressed as a gathering of District Secretaries in September , at the National Conference in October and at meetings of the WEA Central Executive Committee which had the responsibility for formulating an official response . |
| 29 | The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation . |
| 30 | Again , before offering in 1985 to put health warnings on shop facias and canopies , the industry expanded hugely the number of such signs without warnings . |