Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Potsdam Mountbatten had been given responsibility for accepting the Japanese surrender south of the 16th parallel . |
| 2 | Specifically , governors should be given responsibility for defining the broad aims of the school ; they in turn should invite the head and staff to devise means of pursuing them , and should themselves monitor the school 's progress towards them . |
| 3 | In 1919 he was also given responsibility for founding the new signals intelligence ( sigint ) agency , the Government Code and Cipher School ( GC and CS ) . |
| 4 | One or two other workers made attempts at isolating the antibacterial substance from Penicillium during the 1930s . |
| 5 | In November 1911 Chapman added his own voice to many others suggesting plans for restructuring the entire league system . |
| 6 | The resonance of this fine building did not do much for the choir 's inaccurate diction , but made amends by enriching the gracious stone quality of the singing in Haydn 's Little Organ Mass and Faure 's Requiem . |
| 7 | We investigate whether the adverse entropy changes observed experimentally for the melting of single strands of nucleic acids provide guide-lines for estimating the entropic cost of organising the nucleotide backbone in double helical structures . |
| 8 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 9 | The published statistics are therefore retained for this purpose , but , as one company commented , their use is , however , so infrequent that it has difficulty in locating the relevant data when they are needed ! |
| 10 | I had gone through the most difficult period in an athlete 's career , that time before he makes the breakthrough , when he has difficulty in finding the right kind of competition , when money is tight . |
| 11 | Our new chief scientist , Dr Marshall Stoneham has responsibility for monitoring the technical quality of the work and advising on ways of achieving greater research effectiveness through inter-business cooperation . |
| 12 | The chemical company Albright and Wilson has been fined £1,000 for polluting the Irish Sea near its works in Whitehaven , Cumbria , six weeks after it was fined £2,000 for another pollution offence . |
| 13 | Stating the RIBA housing policy for 1992 , it called on the Government to accept responsibility for setting the national housing policy based on need , ability to pay and choice of tenure , drawing on the combined resources of the public and private sectors . |
| 14 | The strategy is innate , though the program must include steps for measuring the relevant variables when necessary . |
| 15 | The Profitboss surrounds himself with achievers : Frankie Dockertz who achieves the most efficient warehouse operation in the region , Liz Mills who has eyes for selecting the best sales people in the country , Betty Boyd who provides the most reliable administrative back-up in the company . |
| 16 | Gould 's nominations were more broadly based and he is gaining momentum by contesting the two posts at once . |
| 17 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 18 | After Lewis left Patti for SanDee Pitnick , the boys discovered that the bathroom also contained equipment for bugging the whole house : from within the bathroom , Jerry Lewis listened in on what his sons and wife were saying . |
| 19 | And they devoted columns to discussing the possible effects of our exclusive pictures on the future of the royal family . |
| 20 | The Swindon Town hard-man was fined £1,200 for attacking the Scottish striker Jim Melrose , breaking his cheekbone in three places . |
| 21 | Arrangements will have to be made with a suitable removal firm if she is going to bring some of her furniture with her , and she may need help in finding the best dealers or auctioneers to take the items she wants to dispose of . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , he has won £150,000 in capturing the chief executive 's job at the exchange . |
| 23 | Outside the UNBZ , the Humanitarian Officer has responsibilities for visiting the enclaved people of this divided island ; that is Greek Cypriots still living in the North , and Turkish Cypriots still living in the South . |
| 24 | To achieve these money supply targets the MTFS also included targets for cutting the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 25 | The latter requirement means that component molecules of each species can interchange positions without altering the total energy of the system , i.e. and consequently it only remains for the entropy contribution ΔS M to be calculated . |
| 26 | They will need to find ways of shedding the accumulated pounds . |
| 27 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 28 | The need to retain the primacy of the professional advisory function is surely paramount , and the Authority might well wish to find ways of reducing the administrative burden on advisory staff . |
| 29 | Iain Walker became well-known in climbing circles for accompanying the 1988 Bonington Menlungste expedition , which was dressed up for sponsorship purposes as a yeti hunt . |
| 30 | Since the basic hypothesis of the ethogenic approach to the understanding of social action is that the very same social knowledge and skill is involved in the genesis of action and of accounts , by recording and analysing each separately , we have two mutually supporting and reciprocally checking ways of discovering the underlying system of social knowledge and belief . |