Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank . |
| 2 | This result might seem puzzling given the conventional characterisation of most Friends in the eighteenth century as quietist ‘ following their habit of attending religiously to their internal impressions ’ . |
| 3 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 4 | He argues that , in seeking to protect children from poverty , AFDC has eased the financial strain of raising children alone ; so more women do so . |
| 5 | In retrospect the pace of international expansion may seem extravagant , especially since the franchising route which has eased the financial pain of UK expansion was not thought practicable abroad . |
| 6 | It has developed the British Code of Advertising Practice whose intentions are primarily to ensure that : |
| 7 | As a broad generalization , the half-century since the end of the Second World War , has witnessed the gradual retreat of state hierarchical coordination in favour of greater elements of market coordination . |
| 8 | POP FREQUENTLY benefits from string sections enhancing a song , but here Balanescu has altered the very nature of Kraftwerk — injecting flesh and blood , evoking warmth , passion and feeling where only industry and technology had previously operated . |
| 9 | No amount of public condemnation of terrorism by cardinals , bishops , and priests has altered the basic perception of many conservative Protestants that , by its refusal to deny religious ordinances to terrorists , the church subtly countenances such actions . |
| 10 | Mr Tam Bayoumi has calculated the average size of capital flows each year in the major economies under the Gold Standard from 1880 to 1913 , and has shown that they were much larger than during the post-war period from 1965 to 1986 . |
| 11 | Using profit maximising analyses and based on a model of a mainly cereal farm in the eastern counties he has calculated the likely impact of various assumed changes in the economics of farming . |
| 12 | The general subordination of the British state to the interests of civil society has limited the relative autonomy of state groups , although they have had a certain freedom to ‘ navigate ’ between the competing demands of different groups and classes , for example in the realm of industrial relations ( Edwards 1986 : 168–72 ) . |
| 13 | This project has examined the current level of industrial and governmental activity on the area of clean technology . |
| 14 | One aspect of this relationship is mobility and Cracknell ( 1967 ) has examined the potential supply of access provided by minor roads around one major city , Leicester . |
| 15 | Geary ( 1985 ) has examined the historical pattern of industrial confrontation in Great Britain , looking for the distinctive features of periods marked by high or low levels of disorder . |
| 16 | The Agency has painted the brightest picture of Wales around the world . |
| 17 | But the ‘ national ’ problem of-Kosovo is a consequence of a long history of Serbian oppression and chauvinism , which has provoked the natural response of Albanian nationalism . |
| 18 | Within the small towns , apparently independent bath-houses are more common than might have been expected given the general level of amenity provision ( fig. 5 D–H ) . |
| 19 | The current revolution in the newspaper industry has highlighted the growing use of new technology to produce daily newspapers . |
| 20 | A new report has highlighted the isolated plight of elderly people in residential care who have a hearing loss . |
| 21 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has joined the swelling number of service providers officially endorsing the Network Management Forum 's OmniPoint network management specification by incorporating it into its procurement strategy . |
| 22 | DEC has filled the critical post of head of worldwide sales and marketing , naming Edward Lucente , once an IBM bright light and a top guy at Northern Telecom for the last two years , completing its new executive roster . |
| 23 | On LIFFE the 50% cross allows the broker/dealer to pre-match half the order , provided he has not taken one side of the cross himself , and he has filled the other half of the order in the pit . |
| 24 | Since the Baath Party came to power in 1968 , it has filled the burgeoning city of Baghdad with new roads , monuments , redevelopment zones and 45 new shopping centres . |
| 25 | Chancellor Kohl has placed the heaviest burden of paying for unification on the average wage-earner . |
| 26 | Edward Thompson has placed the fervent nature of popular religious outbursts in the excited years of the French Revolutionary wars into a pattern of oscillation with the peaks of popular radicalism , serving as the " chiliasm of the defeated and the hopeless " . |
| 27 | The way that the media has conducted a campaign using fear , and attitudes to so called safe sex , has given the wrong sort of messages to our young people . |
| 28 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 29 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 30 | Separately , Praxis revealed that it has completed the initial version of an Architecture Neutral Distribution Format ( ANDF ) installer for IBM Corp 's RS/6000 platform . |