Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the situation is to be changed , then society has to change fundamentally the educational and employment opportunities for black and non-white communities . |
| 2 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 3 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 4 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 5 | And obviously not one to hide the light of his firm — or the cause of the chartered surveyor — under a bushel with regard to the property audit , he said : ‘ We see this as further endorsement of the quality and range of services which we are equipped to offer both the private and public sectors . ’ |
| 6 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 7 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 8 | Birds possess a similar skill as you will discover if you try to dismantle even the untidiest and most apparently haphazard of twig nests . |
| 9 | Only in this way , Brunner felt , could a theology based , quite properly , on the revelation in Jesus be preserved from operating in a vacuum , and enabled to open up the apologetic and educational perspectives essential to the missionary and pastoral work of the church . |
| 10 | Man 's increasing domestication meant he became more interested in the appearance of his home , and in the materials he wore to keep out the cold and wet . |
| 11 | During the Second World War the King of Saudi Arabia , Abdul Aziz , managed to convince both the British and the Germans that he was on their side . |
| 12 | Ardrey may well have a point here , but there is no way we can afford to leave out the social and political ( or ‘ cultural ’ ) relations and processes underlying such conflicts . |
| 13 | The chairman of the Conservative party , the right hon. Member for Bath ( Mr. Patten ) , and the hon. Member for Stockton , South have tried to knock down the political and economic case for regional policy that has been advanced by the Labour party . |
| 14 | Quite simply , refugee children , however gifted , were not encouraged to rise up the economic and social hierarchy . |
| 15 | Leader of the Council Coun Michael Carr said : ‘ In particular we wish to widen both the commercial and cultural role of the town centre in the life of people in the region . |
| 16 | The reaction was an uproar : Sir Keith had managed to offend both the left and the right , as well as touching on two taboos in one theme : sex and class . |
| 17 | To understand any organisation we have to understand both the formal and the informal . |
| 18 | Within a wider social framework , we need to study both the formal and informal modes of the regulation of sexuality . |
| 19 | Yet his real concern is that Labour has failed to grasp how the financial and managerial freedom of GM status , bypassing the LEA and channelling extra funds to schools , has improved opportunities for ordinary pupils . |
| 20 | This account of the state as it is portrayed by the dominant ideology of capitalist societies is held to explain why the dominant and the dominated classes both tend to put up with it . |