Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 2 | Initial Egyptian investigations into the attack revealed little concrete information about the perpetrators of the attack , and on Feb. 7 the authorities imposed a news blackout . |
| 3 | ‘ In publicly announcing the withdrawal of its remaining occupation forces from Korea , the US should make it unmistakably clear that this step in no way constitutes a lessening of US support of the Government of the Republic of Korea , but constitutes rather another step towards the regularisation by the US of its relations with that Government and a fulfilment on the part of the US of the relevant provision of the GA Resolution [ UN General Assembly ] of December 12 , 1948 . ’ |
| 4 | This is because s. 81(2) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 states that a dismissal is by reason of redundancy if it is ‘ wholly or mainly attributable to … the fact that his ( i.e. the employee 's ) employer … has ceased or intends to cease , to carry on that business in the place where the employee was so employed … ’ . |
| 5 | It affects us directly — a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full . |
| 6 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |
| 8 | She bought a car , which widened the range of our activities but made little other difference to the lives of us boys . |
| 9 | Right across the social scale , religion made little perceptible difference to the outward shape of life . |
| 10 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 11 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 12 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 13 | She had , to begin with , colonised the boudoir , rearranging the furniture and bringing down pretty china from the spare bedroom , so as , she planned , to sit there often by herself . |
| 14 | This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions . |
| 15 | the rest of the production process was dependent upon this stage , but the operators got only intermittent feedback on the performance of the mixing process and were unable to effect control over it ; |
| 16 | YORKSHIRE cricket is blazing the international trail after always accepting only home-grown talent in the past Aussie paceman Craig McDermott ( above left ) was the first overseas star expected to join the county , but the move fell through and Tendulkar came over from India instead . |
| 17 | They will tend to regard the overt expression of emotions , including much such expression in the arts , as being soft and feminine . |
| 18 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 19 | But in this instance they highlight only one phase of the star 's action . |
| 20 | The second reason was that the principle had received only limited application during the war . |
| 21 | At that time adoption with contact had received only scant attention in the social work literature and the so called ‘ clean break ’ approach was still in its supremacy . |
| 22 | Perhaps the reason that tail shapes have wrongly received so much attention in the past is that they are the most obviously visible difference between boards . |
| 23 | Firstly , it has examined only one aspect of the assessment process ; it does not consider the functional , financial , behavioural , and social aspects , all of which are arguably as important as clinical diagnosis in planning patients ' management . |
| 24 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 25 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 26 | The Committee also recommended that the preamble and Articles 1 , 2 and 3 of the regulation should be altered so that care of the environment should have comparable status with food production and that the Regulation should refer to the EEC 's Third Action Programme on the Environment . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm supposed to go in first thing in the mornings too , to light the stoves and dust round . ’ |
| 28 | But we will make much better use of the medium if we seek to use it differently and for different reasons . |
| 29 | Though President George Bush regularly devoted large chunks of his State of the Union address to foreign affairs , Mr Clinton made only passing reference to the end of the Cold War . |
| 30 | In terms of the circulation of literature , birth control ideas made only modest progress before the 1870s . |