Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The female has a colour pattern which almost fits that given for the Threadfin Goldie . |
| 2 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 3 | And it then made possible going by the shortest route . |
| 4 | We intend that to apply to the Navy and to the Air Force as well . |
| 5 | And , again , if it is functioning well , it is possible to see this reflected in the bearing and in the expressions of the players whilst they are making music . |
| 6 | We could have used a different host mother — using ova from one woman , and allowing another to act as the incubator for the conception — but we preferred to use the donor of the egg cell as the incubator , mainly to avoid any risk of rejection . |
| 7 | The centre , designed by architect Nicholas Groves Raines after a competition in 1987 , will be partially enveloped by a glass shell within the building , allowing light to enter through the church 's widely-admired stained glass windows . |
| 8 | The current culture at British Rail seems to be — and I have heard this said by the chief executive — that freight is not time-sensitive . |
| 9 | Although she was not a tall woman , she had to stoop low to get through the doorway . |
| 10 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 11 | We expect that to happen in the autumn . ’ |
| 12 | On Oct. 17 , Vukovar came under heavy attack , and on Oct. 20 a relief convoy organized by Médecins sans Frontières evacuated 109 wounded from the city . |
| 13 | It is reasonable to assume , therefore , that there would be a residue of canine stock , who for one reason or another would be deemed unsuitable to die for the perverted pleasure of the gloating Roman nobility . |
| 14 | Their friendship had always been tinged with rivalry , something which helped each to bounce off the other 's character in the movie . |
| 15 | Contrary to popular belief , Soviet economic sources provided rich picking for the researcher , as long as the right subject was chosen . |
| 16 | Naturally enough , it had been deemed impractical to legislate against the women themselves . |
| 17 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 18 | It has little to do with the quality of his jokes or the televisual cut of his suiting , although adequate performance here is important . |
| 19 | It also can isolate one action from another , so that the total sequence is not relevant ( concentration on washing one 's neck has little to do with the subsequent ‘ sea-side ’ actions — the action of washing one 's neck is but an arbitrary item in a string of actions ) ; |
| 20 | It is just possible that this is a master stroke on the part of the CEGB : focus attention on a topic that really has little to do with the inspector . |
| 21 | Throughout his lifetime he had been regarded as an excellently scientific psychologist who had shown that the level of a child 's intelligence has little to do with the child 's home environment ; instead it is a product of the intelligences of the child 's parents . |
| 22 | The sort of ‘ sweeping , wrenching change in national economic govern-ance ’ that Stockman yearned for is the stuff of utopian dreams and has little to do with the realities of American politics . |
| 23 | Obviously mean sea level has little to do with the height of the nip , which is more closely related to high tide level , but high tide level is in itself a variable level . |
| 24 | Identification and interpretation of conventions has little to do with the courts . |
| 25 | Backed by a comfortable working majority , which successive Conservative Administrations enjoyed between 1979–92 , any competent Home Secretary has little to fear from the party opposite . |
| 26 | If this is tomorrow 's generation , Britain has little to fear in the years to come . ’ |
| 27 | ( d ) Standing orders Beyond the requirement that the Houses shall ‘ pass ’ Bills before they receive the Royal Assent , the common law has little to say about the Houses of Parliament . |
| 28 | Pareto does not consider politics or government as subjects separate from sociology , and he has little to say about the concept of power as such . |
| 29 | That said , you may be wondering what sort of effect this has on the Polo 's performance . |
| 30 | Only one person at a time may speak , and he must confine this remarks to the motion before the meeting . |