Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 2 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 3 | As a result of the bi-modal pattern of female involvement in paid employment ( reflecting the demands of child rearing ) , women tend to be absent from work during the period in which men tend to acquire the post-entry professional qualifications which are required for promotion . |
| 4 | In short , he sought to restore the Holy Roman Empire of Germany , Burgundy and Italy . |
| 5 | However , plans to send members of the Japanese armed forces to the Gulf in a non-combat role had collapsed in November after Kaifu failed to secure the necessary bipartisan support for the measure 's approval in the House of Councillors — the upper chamber of the Diet — where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 6 | These titles are retrospectives , released by Savoy shortly after Parker 's premature death ( aged 35 ) ; with this handful of LPs , Savoy sought to encompass the late great alto saxophonist 's complete Savoy discography , which to all intents and purposes they do . |
| 7 | She kept her lashes lowered to hide the raging green fire of her eyes . |
| 8 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 9 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 10 | Robinson contributed by helping to found the Central Statistical Office in 1941 . |
| 11 | He trained as an architect and town planner before helping to found the Panhellenic Socialist Resistance , the forerunner of PASOK , while in exile from the Colonels ' dictatorship from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 12 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 13 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
| 14 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 15 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 16 | The physical environment would have to be remodelled to enforce the new legal speed limits , so that speeds would be reduced by design as well as sign ( Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 17 | THE FFESTINIOG Railway wants to see the scenic Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ) reopened in its entirely from Porthmadog across Snowdonia to Dinas and with an entirely new section running from there right up to the walls of Caernarfon Castle . |
| 18 | About 100,000 people are expected to attend the 11-day annual event in the King 's Hall , Balmoral . |
| 19 | In addition to the Warrant itself , member companies are expected to attend the exclusive Annual Warrant Holders dinner , inviting a limited number of their important customers as guests . |
| 20 | They were designed to carry the maximum possible tonnage of coal under the Thames bridges with the minimum of clearance both under keel and overhead . |
| 21 | Corporatism is designed to sustain the existing economic system by securing the co-operation of labour in policies for incomes , prices , profits and dividends which can only be against its long-term interests ( Panitch 1979 ; Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 22 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 23 | As a member of the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy ( COMA ) , he helped to establish the new Dietary Reference Values ( DRVs ) for nutrients , which replaced the old RDA ( Recommended Daily Amounts ) guidelines . |
| 24 | It stands , alert in its inscrutable knowing that this is its proper season , primed to rebuke the dysfunctioning human subject , a riddling , aleatoric text of querulous combustion . |
| 25 | Malcolm 's lasting interest in the Orient was illustrated by the fact that he became president of the China Society and helped to found the Oriental Ceramic Society . |
| 26 | He later helped to found the Scottish Labour College in 1918 . |
| 27 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 28 | For example , in order to understand the little story in ( 13 ) , one needs to know the following assorted facts : presents are usually bought with money ; piggy-banks are used to hold money ; piggy-banks are generally made of a dense material like metal or plastic ; money inside a container of dense material will generally rattle , etc . |
| 29 | He circled once more on the mild wind and finally , without looking back , he set course to the north , to try to find the distant beloved place called Cape Wrath where once , so long ago , he had been born . |
| 30 | Against this undoubted benefit one has to set the likely bad consequences of recognizing the general and unqualified validity of consent to political authority . |