Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long , surprisingly thick mid-mounted wing , a legacy of the Fouga company 's glider-producing background , should endow low induced drag , although the myriad accessory-cooling slots and intakes on the engine casing and odd lumps and bumps of antennas on the aft body must dirty the otherwise-clean tandem configuration . |
| 2 | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust ( Telford ) Established in 1968 , the Museum Trust conserves the unique industrial remains of the area , which comprise coke-smelting furnaces , the world 's first iron bridge , china factories and much more . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 4 | For instance , man — or perhaps here I should say men — lack the huge canine teeth which distinguish the male great apes . |
| 5 | Distinctive guitar riffs and Ian Telfer 's racy fiddle runs distinguish the powerful , literate songs — all their own , save for a punk-folk thrashing of Pete Seeger 's politically correct tour of Welsh mining communities , pit closures giving a metaphorical edge to the accusing refrain ‘ who killed the miners ? ’ . |
| 6 | It is thus quite difficult to ; distinguish the various princes of the family of Augustus . |
| 7 | Speech act theory , by attempting to single out the pieces of shared knowledge which enable us to interpret the function of what is said , also assumes that we can distinguish which factors in the situation are relevant , but again it does nothing to explain how we distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant . |
| 8 | He could hear John breathing , and in the distance , distinguish the dim shape of the sapper . |
| 9 | If uniforms distinguish the different grades of nursing and domestic staff , then this is useful information for the nurse to communicate to the patient . |
| 10 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
| 11 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 12 | Two main differences , besides the obvious ones of speed , scale and aspirations , distinguish the French strike waves from the Italian . |
| 13 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 14 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 15 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 16 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 17 | And his hat-trick for Wales earlier this month against the Faroe Islands puts him on 23 goals for his country — equalling the Welsh record held jointly by Trevor Ford and Ivor Allchurch . |
| 18 | The Sir Peter Hall Company premieres the new Stephen Poliakoff play Sienna Road from May 11–16 . |
| 19 | Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal , factory unit or traffic warden . |
| 20 | In the previous chapter we identified the major variables which influence the current account of the balance of payments and examined how automatic and discretionary adjustments operate to rectify payments imbalances . |
| 21 | How far do select committees influence the general atmosphere in the House of Commons ? |
| 22 | The nature of the economic system and the conflicts within it influence the changing rules of the game . |
| 23 | The doctor 's expectations as to how the elderly patient should behave influence the actual behaviour of the elderly patient by non-verbal communication . ’ |
| 24 | Whichever factors influence the calving pattern , be it Autumn or Spring , each will have its own problems . |
| 25 | — to bias the competition in the network and influence the stable states ; |
| 26 | The variety of stresses that affect biological systems and influence the immune system 's potentiality are as follows : |
| 27 | In terms of policy influence the New Right captured the intellectual and political high ground in Britain and many other countries throughout the 1980s . |
| 28 | The target groups for a day hospital for dementing patients would be the 3 lowest categories — C , D and E. All category E patients would be included as well as a proportion of those in group D and a smaller proportion of group C. Although inevitably factors such as level of agreement to use day hospital facilities and the frequency of attendance of patients influence the final figure , 7–9 day places is not an unrealistic figure , though this exceeds current nationally derived guidelines . |
| 29 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |
| 30 | This data enables us to draw clear conclusions concerning the presence of B II conformations within the dodecamer under study and also points to more general rules which influence the probable appearance of such conformations within other sequences . |