Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Sir Peter Hall Company premieres the new Stephen Poliakoff play Sienna Road from May 11–16 . |
| 3 | Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal , factory unit or traffic warden . |
| 4 | Things came to a head on 30 January 1971 when a NICRA march in Derry , rendered illegal by Faulkner 's blanket banning of all marches the previous August , found its exit from the ghetto blocked by British soldiers , including the Parachute Regiment . |
| 5 | However , this neglects the categorical or unconditional prescriptivity which we think pertains to values , for it makes the relevance of ethical truths to us turn on contingent facts about the will . |
| 6 | This argument neglects the symbolic function of the labels applied by the law and by courts to criminal conduct . |
| 7 | He argues that to focus analysis in this way neglects the disciplinary forms and technologies through which power operates . |
| 8 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 9 | A static model , such as that of Homans in sociology , emphasizing structural maintenance through a form of ‘ social approval ’ , neglects the inherent dynamism of reproductive strategies that necessitate risk in competition and possibly conflict for their fulfilment . |
| 10 | A choreographer who neglects the old rules and any item pertinent to the unfolding of the plot , theme or music is demanding a great deal from an audience . |
| 11 | Integration is viewed in physical terms ; policy increasingly concentrates on people but neglects the true characteristics of people in favour of resources-led practice . |
| 12 | First , such a model assumes a static population-that is , it neglects the obvious fact that new generations of school ( the age group where use tends to begin ) are constantly emerging . |
| 13 | But psychology still treats ‘ race ’ differences as culturally or even biologically absolute categories , and neglects the social and historical relations in which they are embedded . |
| 14 | Braitenberg 's scheme is obviously a great over-simplification which neglects the special connections that exist between regions with related functions , but it may nonetheless point to the overall pattern through which the neocortex carries on its extensive conversations with itself . |
| 15 | But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them . |
| 16 | with the red hat , and she dyes the red hat |
| 17 | IBM 's emergency board meeting ousts the entire management , but Thanksgiving by IBM employees is short-lived as it appoints W Michael Blumenthal to succeed John Akers . |
| 18 | so I suppose one counteracts the other |
| 19 | The pantomime analogy draws the reader and characters together into a collective fictional position within an audience , and by so doing counteracts the opposite isolating direction of the forces of war , bureaucracy and totalitarianism . |
| 20 | When we look at the English writing system we see how badly it fits the spoken language . |
| 21 | The solid curve in Fig. 8.5 is the GR prediction and fits the changing delay as Venus moves through superior conjunction extremely well . |
| 22 | Neither Melchett nor Porritt fits the usual patterns of lordship , but their presence is reassuring to members who like to see guarantees of moderation and respectability flown at the masthead . |
| 23 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
| 24 | The woman 's killing the man seems metaphorical only , but it fits the present idea — that the one whose identity becomes submerged may want to kill the other . |
| 25 | This fits the stony coral 's relationship with its millions of single-celled plants ( zooxanthellae ) admirably . |
| 26 | The Nobel prize for religion ( God forbid it should ever be invented ) will not go to a theologian , or like the peace prize be passed round to whoever fits the political needs of the moment ( with all due respect to Bishop Tutu and not much to Mr Begin ) . |
| 27 | The fact that you can turn the engine off and use it as a glider must extend the appeal of this unusual creature which hardly fits the general public 's notion of a microlight . |
| 28 | It is therefore Mitchell 's study which best fits the general argument being developed here . |
| 29 | An international campaign against prohibition fits the Radical pattern : odd but just short of eccentric , controversial but with respectable supporters , and newsworthy . |
| 30 | In The Future of an Illusion , the use of the term ‘ religion ’ is one which fits the Jewish-Islamic-Christian complex of religions , which are built upon the notion of a Creator God . |