Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Did he from the rich and give to the poor ? |
| 32 | How is a question asked by the foolish and answered by the trivial . ’ |
| 33 | Tracy , of Aldborough Walk , said her one-year-old son Jamie has developed asthma from the damp and suffered from colds and chest infections . |
| 34 | A vicar has now joined the ranks of the unemployed and signed on the dole . |
| 35 | But anything of a bigger scale that involves attracting the public or rallying the faithful or listening to a guest speaker does need forethought and care if it is not to be a shambles . |
| 36 | The Report of the Committee said nothing surprising to the interested or informed about poverty and malnutrition . |
| 37 | They were the harmless copying the harmful and benefiting from the deception . |
| 38 | The women are shutting themselves off , choosing the high that comes from writing instead of accepting their place as bearers and nurturers of children . |
| 39 | It described the high that ensues from smoking crack ( 'Crack is both spacey and intense' ) and the downs that follow ; it told his readers how he bought it and what the morning after was like . |
| 40 | In part , this was because of the spread of liberal ideas and institutions since 1815 ; governments were tending to be less the oppressors of the governed than identified with them , though this process had still far to go in 1880 . |
| 41 | so I would go for the recommended and hope by this version of Windows it knows about Amstrads and will sort it out . |
| 42 | Equation 7.7 can be compared with the earlier expression for geodesic deviation : taking account of the sign change in the spatial components of the metric when passing from Euclidean to Minkowski space . |
| 43 | In late February the UN boundary commission was preparing a report which would reinstate the 1923 border with Kuwait , delineated by the British and accepted by the Iraqi government in an agreement with Kuwait in 1963 . |
| 44 | The second effect is the inferior performance of the CED when compared to the OALD . |
| 45 | LDOCE is slightly superior to the CED and OALD in this respect , most probably due to its use of a core vocabulary . |
| 46 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 47 | In an aggressive competitive world , stress levels are high , wearing down the weak and the wet and forcing upon them a proliferation of ailments and diseases with the consequential poor decisions and non-profitable returns . |
| 48 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 49 | He had seen pride and admiration in her eyes , and love — and that protectiveness of the young for the old that came with love . |
| 50 | There is still an element of polarisation , however , which proclaims ‘ belief in the old and distrust in the new ’ . |
| 51 | The fact that there is something quite new and of a different quality means that we will rapidly discard the old and move into the new , just as colour television sets were substituted for black and white , and created a very high growth rate over a period of years . |
| 52 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 53 | Once the new analogy is recognized , it can be compared with the old and shown to be more adequate , in that it dissipates previously insoluble problems . |
| 54 | After all , it is about the conservation of the old and founded on a suspicion of the new . |
| 55 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 56 | For the few that returned to Britain , life would never be the same |
| 57 | Puns and similar manoeuvres trivialize the serious and instil in Julia a sense of linguistic mauvaise foi . |
| 58 | Take out the joint and remove from the tin while you layer the potatoes and onions in the juices . |
| 59 | Joey lit the joint and drew on it deeply , passing it to Lizzy . |
| 60 | Another design that was to remain a firm favourite was the waterproof snow boot — fur-lined , with suede on the outside and fastened at the front or side with a zip . |