Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ None of us believed that it was right , sensible , logical or professional to split up the company , ’ says Bill Toner . |
| 2 | This might put pressures on the sons and it could well be that not all would feel able or willing to take on the task . |
| 3 | You could of course call on Messrs Bradshaw or Cornish to sort out the confusion , but they 'll cost you all four limbs and a second mortgage . |
| 4 | Along zones of plate convergence , especially where these occur along the margins — of continents ( such as along the west coast of South America ) , buckling of the oceanic lithosphere causes it to founder and sink into the underlying asthenosphere , thereby forming a subduction zone . |
| 5 | Variable speed allowed the most aggressive setting — 7 on the control dial — to be used for the first stages , and a gentler 3 or 4 cleaned up the veneer surface . |
| 6 | The hotel manager says he was forced to employ French staff because no one in this region , or this country , seemed willing or able to take up the positions . |
| 7 | Such people are also not themselves so keen or able to bring on the bright youngsters . |
| 8 | After a wee dram or two to ward off the winter chill , hardier types venture forth carrying lumps of coal to pass on to others as good luck tokens . |
| 9 | When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks . |
| 10 | When in a hurry , or eager to try out the new software you 've just received for example , you might forget to validate the disks . |
| 11 | No it 's not fact that normal go up the private estates , this is probably your first time on a council estate , the bloody hell it 's come from . |
| 12 | In 1973 , a Japanese motoring enthusiast bought a Super Seven and before long he was back , determined to import the cars into Japan and more than willing to take on the red tape . |
| 13 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 14 | Vera Shroff , a mathematics student , found that tutoring brought back the fun of a subject she was having some teething troubles in coping with at university level . |
| 15 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 16 | And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) . |
| 17 | Though perhaps outrun in the fame stakes by the likes of Nick Beggs and Alphonso Johnson , Californian Chapman Stick virtuoso Jim Lampi is doing more than most to push back the frontiers of his instrument , in partnership with the latest in high technology . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One whiff of a piece of clothing and the appropriate commands , and off goes Fido , nose to the ground , casting this way and that to pick up the same scent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So there 's this enormously long testing period now takes place and that cuts down the risk of their being disasters or catastrophes . |
| 22 | Less on on er less unless unless we split full pages and go into halves and that brings in the same sort of revenue thereabouts but just happens to spread |
| 23 | João had been out with Fernando for most of the previous night and looked pale and tired , but Maria Iñes said this was all to the good , because it made him look older and readier to take on the responsibility of a wife . |
| 24 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 25 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 26 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 27 | According to the manual , regarding the felling of trees : — firstly remove long branches , except on the side where it is supposed to fall , then if possible excavate around the roots , finally one person pushes the main trunk while the other ( me ) pulls on the rope . |
| 28 | In 1979 there were 3,080 barristers practising in central London and 1,283 spread over the rest of england and Wales ; considering that most courts are now decentralised , this certainly seems to indicate an imbalance . |
| 29 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 30 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |