Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 2 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 3 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 4 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 5 | Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners . |
| 6 | For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available . |
| 7 | Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage . |
| 8 | That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own |
| 9 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 10 | We were due to try out the show at Farnham , a 400-seater theatre , less than an hour from London . |
| 11 | Therefore the area of the rectangle shown at the bottom of the last page is equal to base x height and the area of the triangle is unc We can now see that to work out the area of any triangle we simply need to remember are unc |
| 12 | The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links . |
| 13 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 14 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 15 | It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile . |
| 16 | It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile . |
| 17 | Knowing the number of d electrons , it is possible to work out the number of free ion terms by analyzing the microstates ; this process is described in Ref. [ 20 ] . |
| 18 | It is almost always possible to find out the answers to basic questions about pay and conditions prior to the interview . |
| 19 | After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents . |
| 20 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 21 | 2 Push down the clutch plate ( a ) and draw back the piston rod ( b ) |
| 22 | If you 're willing to go down the route to drag hunting I am willing to support any hunt that wants to go down that route and I am sure this authority would . |
| 23 | Gerry Crawley , a NALGO finance spokesman , said the council was prepared to sit out the strike , but that stance was creating a nightmare scenario for the tax which would take years to clear up . |
| 24 | This slows down the towplane , leaving it at low speed below the glider and having its tail pulled up out of control . |
| 25 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the administration 's key allies on the Hill , has made it clear that Mr Clinton is willing to scale back the tax , exempting whole industries and offering generous rebates to exporters . |
| 26 | While a new regulation in 1985 ruled out the option of global additionality , the question of individual additionality still remained for the future . |
| 27 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 28 | The employer , or the architect on his behalf , for certain sections of a contract may provide a list , in or attached to the contract bills , of at least three sub-contractors from which the builder must select one able and willing to carry out the respective work . |
| 29 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 30 | This points out the bridging nature of WordStar for Windows — it really is an amalgam of word processing and DTP concepts , and is likely to develop further towards the DTP arena as subsequent versions are released . |