Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theorists regard the discipline it imposes as the only truly effective constraint on managerial discretion and therefore consider its operation to be crucial to the efficiency of the private enterprise economy . |
| 2 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 3 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 4 | Nearly 1,000 of the world 's 9,700 bird species are threatened with extinction , with the destruction of habitats being regarded as the single most serious threat to their survival ; 43 per cent of the threatened birds live in tropical forests , for example . |
| 5 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 6 | The problem can be overcome in the case of any straight step function by evaluating the Fourier transform of the corresponding exponentially decaying step function and then finding its limit as the rate of decay goes to zero . |
| 7 | If he ended up with a taste for feudalism and aristocracy it was because he believed that the old paternalism was better than the inhuman gulf between ‘ classes ’ — ‘ One would wish to see the rich mingle with the poor as much as may be upon a footing of fraternal equality . ’ |
| 8 | All words from the text which are not included in the 2000 most frequent word groups are put into a separate sluice . |
| 9 | The numbers recorded have always been small , although quite marked influxes occurred in the three most recent severe winters , with about 42 in 1946/47 , 40–50 in early 1956 , and 60 in 1962/63 . |
| 10 | And one looks at the two most likely existing settlements on which you could do that to are , of course , Easingwold , to the Nor to the Northwest , and Tadcaster to the South . |
| 11 | For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems . |
| 12 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 13 | Whereas the short version makes a flat statement : where the strong stresses of sense are counterpointed with the underlying metrically rhythmical dactyls , and the half rhyme on " stark " and " harde " brings the whole description to a brutal head . |
| 14 | For Best and Marinello the George and Ringo of football stardom was a thing of the past and as the ‘ 60s receded into the '90s all that was left was a future that football would ultimately disown . |
| 15 | The appointment of Article 11 Tutors and the blurring of distinctions between Chapter II and Chapter III provision in rural areas meant that university extra-mural departments could encroach upon the earlier explicitly legitimate function of the WEA as the main organiser of student demand through its branch structure . |
| 16 | The desk — one of a limited edition of 250 — has been made from the last commercially viable elm wood left in Britain . |
| 17 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 18 | But before looking at the two most important examples of planning for peace , the Beveridge Report and the Butler Education Act of 1944 , it is important to note a number of ways in which peacetime policy changes were foreshadowed by ad hoc wartime measures . |
| 19 | Total debt too continued to increase from $633 billion in 1980 to $ 1,217 billion in 1987 , of which about 40 per cent was owed by the fifteen heavily indebted countries . |
| 20 | New Delhi was built by the British early this century and evokes memories of a different era with its wide avenues , beautiful gardens and imposing buildings . |
| 21 | Uniscan could persist throughout the 1950s without much difficulty since it in no way threatened national independence . |
| 22 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 23 | As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras . |
| 24 | The second class consisted of the 40 most frequent words excluding function words and extending over the entire concordance line , to represent collocates of the node . |
| 25 | Having said that , the book deals with the ten roughly parallel valleys that cut deep into the range from the north , with details of no less than 115 hiking routes . |
| 26 | For fairly obvious reasons the conversations begin with one of the most recent entrants to the profession , and ends with the two most senior actors . |
| 27 | But it remains unclear what type of rifle was used in the two most recent murders in Forkhill and Crossmaglen . |
| 28 | The report , published in 1991 , uncovered statistical evidence that children who spoke English as a second language were heavily over-represented in the two most acute categories of special needs schools in the region 's Glasgow district . |
| 29 | The calculated increases in O 3 are , however , lower than anticipated from the additional SO 2 -catalysed production of O 3 alone . |
| 30 | He turned to the other characteristically skeletal bronze . |