Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ORCHESTRE : [ Rousseau gives ten reasons why the Paris Opéra orchestra makes the least effect of any European orchestra , the seventh of which is ] the unendurable noise of the baton which covers and deadens the whole effect of the ensemble . |
| 2 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 3 | Analogue design remains important because it accommodates and defines the basic building blocks of electronics . |
| 4 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 5 | A new phrasing is now adopted and displaces the original motion , which is lost for ever . |
| 6 | An intersection does not indicate that a clash occurs but establishes the only region of uncertainty in which all possible clashes could occur . |
| 7 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 8 | In particular , structuralist Marxists have argued that this approach is historically limited and misunderstands the contradictory role which military expenditure performs for capitalist economies . |
| 9 | A Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister , Liu Huaqiu , summoned the US ambassador in Beijing , Stapleton Roy , on Sept. 3 and told him that the US decision " grossly interferes in China 's internal affairs , seriously jeopardizes Sino-US relations and obstructs and undermines the great cause of China 's peaceful reunification " . |
| 10 | It marks and establishes the arcane authority of the ( usually male ) development expert much more profoundly and severely than his outer lineaments of specialness such as the belted safari suit he wears ‘ in the field ’ and the flap and epaulet-laden trench coat he sports at the conferences he attends with sickening frequency in the West . |
| 11 | The file is built up as each module is hard copied and holds the following information : |
| 12 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 13 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 14 | Table II compares the actual number of referrals before and after introducing the guidelines by type of examination requested and shows the absolute change in terms of workload and cost . |
| 15 | Bronchoscopy can be readily performed and has the added advantage of allowing the patient 's respiratory function to be monitored and 100% oxygen to be administered if required . |
| 16 | Check that the directory exists and has the correct protection for LIFESPAN to access it . |
| 17 | Section 4 describes the wealth and asset return measures used and presents the first stage regression used to obtain instruments for expected returns . |
| 18 | Chapter 4 begins with a brief description of the modes of assessment used and contains the main body of the results of testing . |
| 19 | The evidence for grain-milling in small towns is limited but includes the third century building with two millstones in the Kate 's Cabin suburb at Water Newton , the three millstones in the yard of building 16 at Springheads and the very large millstone at Wanborough , which implies the use of water or other mechanical power . |
| 20 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 21 | ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS The Princess Royal , Patron , The British Nutrition Foundation , today visits the Foundation 's Conference for Teachers of Nutrition at Exeter Court Hotel , Kenford , Exeter , Devon ; as President , The Save the Children Fund , visits the Save the Children Fund Shop , 17 Paris Street , Exeter , Devon ; and , as President , the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , attends and presents the Annual Tribute Award at the Odeon , Leicester Square , London W1 . |
| 22 | As this current reaches a peak value , the contact breaker mechanism ( which is driven by a rotating cam ) opens and interrupts the primary current . |
| 23 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 24 | She characterizes it as a ‘ micropolitical structure ’ in itself , which ‘ underlies and supports the macropolitical structure ’ ; and she alleges that it lies at a ‘ crucial point ’ ( 1977 : 179 , 191 ) between open , and concealed , political control and resistance . |
| 25 | ‘ A man no more sees and feels the same thing than he hears and feels the same thing . ’ |
| 26 | It senses and delivers the correct amount of power to the driving wheels , eliminating wheel spin and ensuring stable handling . |
| 27 | When one reads and analyses the admirable report , one discovers a number of threats — the importation of foreign coal , the question of how the board will react to privatisation and the Government 's Rothschild report which is not , in fact , a report but a slaughter of the coal industry . |
| 28 | A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock . |
| 29 | Later we come to our senses and see how , while Shakespeare is embalmed in academic papers on ‘ the logical limits of disintegration ’ , his linguistic spirit still animates and haunts the Disney-ravaged landscape of Hughes ' Crow and the metaphysical wilderness of Gaudete . |
| 30 | The difference between a living organism and one just newly dead is that something which we call life has departed , something which we can neither see , hear , smell , touch , weigh or in any physical sense quantify , but which animates and directs the physical organism while it is alive , and gives it the power to counteract the forces of disintegration and decay . |