Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year . |
| 2 | Having once formed , it emanates ‘ morphogenetic fields ’ that influence the form taken by all other crystals of the same kind : and the fields of each new individual combine to provide a ‘ morphic resonance ’ , active across both space and time . |
| 3 | The divisional controllers also lacked the independence conferred by ministerial appointment on Area Board chairmen , and were more constrained when they were called regularly to London head office conferences . |
| 4 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 5 | One possibility would be that the children lacked the ability to think about epistemic states , such as knowing , thinking and believing . |
| 6 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 7 | Police evidence to the Lords ' Committee had already shown that parish vestry councils were generally incompetent , badly run and lacked the funds to embark on private prosecutions . |
| 8 | ‘ We abhor the principles outlined in this motion , ’ the committee 's new motion reads . |
| 9 | If business growth is to be achieved , in what is essentially a depressed market , it is vital that we build our market share while aggressively pursuing the opportunities offered by new product developments . |
| 10 | Before the Act , section 5 of the 1936 Act was supplemented by a miscellany of powers to be found in local legislation , which empowered the police to deal with minor nuisances and acts of hooliganism . |
| 11 | Sharp and Dust ( 1987 ) found that teachers rarely perceived art teaching as little more than giving pupils a title , providing materials and allowing the assignment to progress without any more guidance or evaluation . |
| 12 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 13 | There are organisational problems in allowing the group to split into two such distinct factions . |
| 14 | The new low aspect ratio keels have been specially designed to give the maximum lift to windward as well as allowing the boat to creep into shallow lagoons and creeks where she can dry out without any difficulty thus opening up previously unexplored regions throughout the world . |
| 15 | Actually , the Blox were furtively retrieving a windsurfer sail they had tied to the anchor chain with an injudiciously big bowline , allowing the sail to sink into some 40 feet of water . |
| 16 | Contemporarily the state , through administrative and financial controls , has lessened that autonomy while allowing the universities to reshape with comparative ease their governing statutes . |
| 17 | Nerve cells , unlike other cells , have the ability to communicate with other nerve cells by the use of long thin fibres known as axons and dendrites which extend outwards from the cell body , allowing the cell to influence from 1,000 to 100,000 other nerve cells . |
| 18 | Allowing the client to choose in this way can often increase their motivation for the success of the treatment . |
| 19 | Cloud will gradually disperse and clear areas will appear , allowing the temperature to fall to one degree celsius , that 's thirty four degrees fahrenheit , with a widespread ground frost and few mist patches in the valleys . |
| 20 | Secondly , as we have seen , by allowing the NSA to eavesdrop on British communications ( as it does from the Morwenstow station in Cornwall which scoops up everything passing in and out of British Telecom 's ground station at Goonhilly ) , it allows British ministers to claim that GCHQ does not monitor calls within Britain . |
| 21 | But the judge refused to make a formal order allowing the unions to arrange for independent weekly inspections of the pits , to ensure they were not deteriorating . |
| 22 | Andrew was also looking at strategic issues , such as how the Russians are managing the environment themselves , what restrictions and demands the authorities will place on western companies , and what sort of help they require with rectifying the damage caused by earlier drilling and production operations . |
| 23 | In the late 1690s the Scottish government gave its support to a proposal intended to enable the country to escape from all its economic problems : a trading company was to be launched which would set up a commercial centre at Darien on the Panama Isthmus . |
| 24 | The legislation empowered the G.L.C. to take such action as was necessary and appropriate in order to enable the L.T.E. to comply with this obligation ; the G.L.C. also had power to make grants to the L.T.E. for any purpose . |
| 25 | Reduced grade change-over time was the driver to enable the plant to run with reduced batch size or reduced economic batch quantity . |
| 26 | But last night the South Tees Health Authority and the South Tees Acute Hospitals agreed to split the £30,000 costs to enable the project to continue during 1992–3 . |
| 27 | When the current and intended future positions have been established , the next step is to formulate alternative strategies to enable the business to move from one position to another . |
| 28 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 29 | Finally , there are plans to provide custodians a sore point to enable the churches to open for two hours a day . |
| 30 | The new section 25A laid a responsibility upon the court to consider whether financial obligations should be terminated and to make orders designed to enable the spouse to adjust without due hardship to the termination of financial dependence on the other spouse . |