Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A law signed on March 5 ( given in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of May 6 ) laid down the legal foundations of individual and state security and set up a Security Council responsible for this area , chaired ex officio by the Russian President . |
| 2 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 3 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 4 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |
| 5 | Perhaps the essential task of bringing in the new democracies of eastern Europe will founder on economic collapse , ethnic unrest and social upheaval . |
| 6 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 7 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 8 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 9 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |
| 10 | Thus , whilst Wallis and Gusfield disagree over the likely causes of resentment , both appear to be identifying ‘ status groups ’ as central to moral campaigns . |
| 11 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 12 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 13 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 14 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 15 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 16 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 17 | Tim found out the appalling details of his wife 's killing when he finally got through to Elizabeth 's fiance Cuan Cronje . |
| 18 | Until this study was carried out the individual elements of the FAOR methodology had been developed and tested in isolation , each being the responsibility of different organisations within the FAOR partnership . |
| 19 | The force of repression is like a great dam that holds back the raging torrents of the instincts of the unconscious and allows er some of them through , but others break through in holes , and holes and cracks appear which are the unconscious returning as one |
| 20 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 21 | A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way . |
| 22 | Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms . |
| 23 | Every shift , they face people who have lost lovers , lost jobs or lost families through AIDS or ( more often ) the fear of AIDS ; every shift they have to help people think through the new consequences of future sex or face the possible results of past ignorance . |
| 24 | It 's time we took a stronger line with wild-eyed enthusiasts who do n't think through the full consequences of their soft-hearted feelings . |
| 25 | Their arguments were deliberately couched in language which played down the revolutionary implications of the legislation and was designed to convince doubters that no changes of any real significance were taking place . |
| 26 | But with the exception of Georg Joachim Rheticus ( 1514–74 ) , who had been seduced by the harmony that an exchange of earth and sun could bring to the sequence of planetary periods , the Lutheran circle inspired by Philip Melanchthon ( 1497–1560 ) played down the cosmological aspects of De revolutionibus no less than Catholic observers . |
| 27 | They are ruminants and have special structures in their stomachs ( the rumen ) , containing special micro-organisms which can break down the hard parts of the plants . |
| 28 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 29 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 30 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |