Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became possible to determine the correct numbers of each kind of atom in a molecule by means of the already available Avogadro 's Law of 1811 , which a patriotic Italian chemist drew to the attention of an international symposium on the question in 1860 , the year of Italian unity . |
| 2 | It took women 's liberation to politicise women 's discontent with sex and men , but how far has that reached the young mothers inside the traditional working-class communities of the industrial North ? |
| 3 | Elbowed out FOOTBALL : Ajax Amsterdam 's Swedish striker Stefan Pettersson looks set to miss the European Championships after dislocating his elbow in the UEFA Cup final victory over Torino . |
| 4 | Having resisted repeated attempts to kill it off , the A level looks set to survive the latest upheavals in British education almost unchanged . |
| 5 | The world has much to thank the Chinese ancients for , do n't you agree ? " |
| 6 | For this reason it is considered important to gather the subjective judgements of participants as well as evidence of a seemingly factual kind . |
| 7 | After 1999 , Aegon will be able to inject any amount of new capital and should this be approved by the voting trust — which must be likely should it wish to generate more profits through business growth for the with-profits policyholders — then the with-profits fund must match Aegon 's injections ( which must be considered unlikely given the huge resources Aegon has access to ) or see its stake in the company diluted . |
| 8 | The victor settled in the long grass , wings outspread to show the four pairs of conspicuous circle ‘ eyes ’ , scenting the air to attract a female , and to warn off males . |
| 9 | On encouraging capital flows it reads : ‘ By lifting the barriers [ facing ] the co-operation of economic entities and the citizens it should be made possible to utilize the individual savings for community purposes and to open wider and safer possibilities for the citizen ’ ventures . ’ |
| 10 | This would solve many of the party 's difficulties inherited from the past , but it would do little to settle the pressing problems of the present and future . |
| 11 | Locking the gates , however , could do little to reverse the social trends which the dazibao complained of . |
| 12 | This , in turn , weakened both the Republicans in exile ( who , in any case , were bitterly divided among themselves ) and those in Spain ( who , moreover , could do little to avoid the repressive clutches of the regime ) . |
| 13 | One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it . |
| 14 | EDITH CRESSON , scourge of the English male and the Japanese export , has gone , but it is unlikely that her successor can do much to revive the flagging fortunes of the French Socialist Party . |
| 15 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 16 | Togliatti 's apparent cold indifference to the fate of his fellow countrymen shocked many and seemed likely to damage the electoral chances of the PDS and the PRC , the two parties which were the direct successors of the PCI . |
| 17 | The government has nevertheless seen fit to give the new rules an official stamp by publishing them in its Journal Officiel , through which all new laws and decrees are promulgated . |
| 18 | The social scientist , equipped with powerfully zooming lenses , not to mention other specially designed equipment , is confident of taking more accurate pictures , and uses these to interpret the obscure images of the unfortunate . |
| 19 | It may be that the student does not feel competent to discuss the various distinctions , but even so the existence of the possible distinctions should be pointed out in the answer . |
| 20 | And they 'd all took the long tours you know they really were interested |
| 21 | The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures . |
| 22 | Their movements echoed here , the sound of the river loud , though only Scathach seemed able to hear the distant cries of fighting . |
| 23 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 24 | Peering through steamed-up glasses , I could n't differentiate between a sheep and a hedge , let alone identify the coloured rectangles of the course markers . |
| 25 | By the end of the century some English mathematicians could no longer even understand the work of their predecessors , let alone rival the enormous advances being made in France and Germany . |
| 26 | Miguel Sol , appeared to take no action to crush the rebellion , and Col. Hercules Galon seemed unable to control the dissident elements of the 402nd Brigade which allowed Nobel 's forces to pass unhindered through several military checkpoints during the drive between Butuan and Cagayan de Oro . |
| 27 | SWEDEN , although strengthened by a strong Scottish -Swedish contingent , seemed unable to reproduce the deft touches of the originators of the abbreviated game . |
| 28 | Guy wondered vaguely when he 'd first noticed the wavering movements of the walls . |
| 29 | He dined at three and fished with Burkett and his daughter until the evening light finally wilted , not to darkness , it was too northerly for that , but to that active dusk in which motes of light seemed pleased to elude the half-hearted grapplings of black night . |
| 30 | Since the value of credit vouchers issued exceeds the sale of gift vouchers approximately six to one , it is felt unreasonable to expect the nine branches local to Savacentre to take a disproportionately high cost . |