Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When that failed they attempted an exorbitant rent so I intervened .
2 That made me feel a bit of an outsider .
3 That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight .
4 It was that that made me see the other side of him .
5 It will also help if the players can hit the iron shots a little higher than usual to enable them to stop the ball on the firm greens .
6 The text is divided into three sections and each has something to offer the reader .
7 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers .
8 Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ?
9 But does this make it play a less significant role in overcoming his problem ?
10 Community relations and neighbourhood policing reverses the process of depersonalization , and with regard to the police this encourages them to develop a more subtle set of typifications which categorize the majority of residents in West Belfast as decent , honest , and , at root , friendly .
11 To say that the cat perceives the ball is stuck requires that it has the belief that it is , and this involves its possessing the concepts ‘ ball ’ and ‘ stuck ’ .
12 In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches .
13 Ultimately , this led her to challenge the way the professionals conceived Tom 's needs .
14 This led him to compare the legal codes of archaic and modern societies in much the same manner as Maine had done .
15 This led him to write a book which he called A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying , Shewing the Unreasonableness of Prescribing to Other Men 's Faith and the Iniquity of Persecuting Different Opinions .
16 This led him to propose a new evolutionary ‘ law ’ , which , in brief , states that within a relatively homogeneous higher taxon , subtaxa tend to become extinct at a stochastically constant rate .
17 This led us to test a model in which cells of both subsets died , but in which cells were also allowed to revert from the CD45R0 to CD45RA phenotype without cell division .
18 This led us to monitor the implementation of the programme closely and to modify follow up protocols in the light of our experience .
19 It highlighted the urgent need to develop less-damaging methods of transport and this led us to form an expert working party under the chairmanship of Stuart Cole , a transport policy research consultant from the University of North London , who is familiar with the Welsh transport system .
20 This led us to undertake a principal components transformation of the seven bands of image data , which gave encouraging results similar to those obtained by Forster ( 1985a ) .
21 This led us to identify a number of key themes in the contemporary literature concerning what the Chicago School called the biotic order .
22 This led us to develop an approach known as hypergame analysis .
23 It 's simply that I 'm not prepared to see him branded a fraud and a charlatan merely in order to prolong your receipt of them .
24 The sleazy sell which accompanies the three-page advert points to those who have been given large sums of money shortly after acquiring their cross .
25 This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could .
26 However , this made him re-examine the foundations of his faith and as a result he became more convinced of their truth than ever .
27 This made him see the great urgency of persuading ‘ such ignorant , presumptuous and careless sinners as the world aboundeth with ’ to repent and believe in Christ .
28 This made them hold the glider down and often caused overspeeding or even overrunning of the cable or parachute .
29 This has itself generated a substantial literature ( see the papers in Elliot 1988 for an overview ) and is nowhere better exemplified than in Openshaw 's geographical analysis machine ( see Ch. 2 ) .
30 And did this tempt him to doctor the evidence in the ways shown above ?
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