Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home team , well filled with credited Wallabies , led 24–4 before Sole roused the Scots to fight back to a 24-all draw . |
| 2 | ‘ Irish political parties , and this includes Sinn Fein , must be prepared to assist the British to face up to their responsibilities regarding the Unionists and to face up to our responsibilities towards them also . |
| 3 | And finally , brethren , let us ask the Almighty to look down upon us and our endeavours with His special favour , beseeching Him that He may send a blessing upon our daily tasks , and that in His infinite wisdom He may smite our enemies , and destroy those who would destroy us . |
| 4 | Because it is the most complex of all food elements , protein is the hardest to break down in the body , requiring a great deal of energy . |
| 5 | The Marine paused , as if to allow time for any of the three to speak out of turn . |
| 6 | The 2nd KONR Div. , formed at Heuberg , was now mobilised ; and the 1st Div. , to the exasperation of Field-Marshal Schörner , marched south from the Oder to link up with these compatriots . |
| 7 | Forget the grinning drummer or the antics of the bass player ( the first to go down to stroppy retaliation ) , this band are a scorched earth antidote to faint hearts and floppy fringes . |
| 8 | Australia 's hand would be the first to shoot up with New Zealand not far behind , both of them , of course , recent victors over England . |
| 9 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 10 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 11 | This group is the first to rise up in indignation and shout ‘ witch-hunt ’ and ‘ persecution ’ whenever Christians condemn the occult . |
| 12 | After being told that they could n't have children , the Smiths became the first to sign up for the ARC 1990 , which would form part of some long-term cruising . |
| 13 | On Monday 16 May the inspections started and British Airtours , a subsidiary of British Airways , were the first to come up with a cracked spar . |
| 14 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 15 | There will be plenty of time for the softhearted to recover back at the hotel . |
| 16 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 17 | This gleaming gold , buttery-sweet dessert wine is one of the best to come out of Romania . |
| 18 | He read aloud : ' ’ Delicate delineation of a boy 's sensations on discovering physical love … powerful and evocative description of adolescent suffering in an unsympathetic society … the best to come out of Canada for years … . ’ |
| 19 | Smith was the latest to go off for examination of foot bruising , Nick Knight substituting briefly in the field . |
| 20 | ‘ For all that I might be fairly intelligent I 'm often slow in there , the last to pick up on something . |
| 21 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 22 | Sam 's boat was one of the last to sail in between the old forts , and Harry , who was standing at the end of the stone quay in order to crow over the birth of his son and demand payment of his winnings , saw with a twinge of jealousy that Gristy 's ketch was well down in the water . |
| 23 | One of the easiest to get along with was Rosie Michelle , a small cheerful Cockney girl who was definitely in awe of no-one . |
| 24 | Insiders admit that by both external and internal measures , it has failed badly during the 1980s to live up to its promise . |
| 25 | Erm if I give you a ring about Sunday or so I will have sorted out cos I 've got quite a few to sort out at the moment . |
| 26 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 27 | A hundred to send out to specific individuals and institutions . |