Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 2 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 3 | The 1633 ‘ Uyttenbogaert ’ fits that bill with the additional advantages of being both a representation of an important figure in Dutch religious history ( although the Rijksmuseum already has a portrait of him by Rembrandt 's contemporary Jacob Backer ) and universally accepted as authentic by the members of the Rembrandt Research Project , some of whom are Rijksmuseum curators . |
| 4 | The king and his nobles understood one another , shared common interests and ideals , and enjoyed the glory , prestige and profit that success in the common enterprise in France brought them . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley said , in 1991 : ‘ I do n't frankly think that abuse against the elderly is a major problem . ’ |
| 6 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 7 | To include that issue in the forthcoming Student Loans Bill would make the measure hybrid and deny it any prospect of a swift passage through Parliament . |
| 8 | The patient is often accompanied by a relative or friend , and it is wise to include that person in the initial discussion since the patient may attempt to dismiss or deny the problem . |
| 9 | The two species treated each other with the distant friendliness of creatures who could , at a pinch , eat one another but had decided not to . |
| 10 | But like many other nations we have been deeply concerned by the violence in the Baltics , and we have communicated that concern to the Soviet leadership . |
| 11 | At other times they serve to enrich each other through the mutual benefit of cross-fertilisation . |
| 12 | In Japan superiors are expected to make their subordinates accept the practice of groupism so that trust is constituted which transcends particularlisms , binding each person to the universal love of the enterprise . |
| 13 | In theory , assuming that a project consists of a number of stages , lead time can be shortened in two ways : ( 1 ) overlapping upstream and downstream engineering activities on the critical path ; and/or ( 2 ) shortening each step on the critical path . |
| 14 | Sell each bag at the usual going rate — five pounds — and you make a hundred per cent profit . |
| 15 | Israel 's talks with Syria made little headway on the major dispute between the two countries , centred on Israel 's occupation of the Golan Heights . |
| 16 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 17 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 18 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 19 | There is one ear on each side of the thorax , and each has a simple structure ; two nerves connect each ear with the thoracic ganglion ( which is the nearest mini-brain ) . |
| 20 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 21 | If that is true , those figures bring little consolation to the national health service as a whole . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors . |
| 23 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 24 | I mean that box on the left hand side there could be Ralph Gardener Community High School and where it says science or maths or whatever |
| 25 | The detainee can make a formal complaint after release , but this offers little solace to the aggrieved individual . |
| 26 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 27 | Torrential rains had fallen each afternoon in the past week , and three days before in the steaming jungle he had contracted a fever which he had kept at bay since with frequent doses of quinine . |
| 28 | He realized that experience in the quarrying industry is certainly something that you do n't get rid of . |
| 29 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 30 | Even where elected representatives are aware of the vote-catching potential of courting the ethnic communities , they have given little thought to the educational implications of their policies , and even less effort to ensure that the policies are implemented . |