Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a bit risky to begin on the main pieces of work , so I made a separate swatch . |
| 2 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 3 | Iron combined with organic matter can not be removed by the methods applicable to iron in the ionized form . |
| 4 | Refunds will be provided at point of sale for fans unable to go to the relevant dates . |
| 5 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 6 | For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc . |
| 7 | Most of the terraces are preserved as flattenings on spurs and it is possible that similar features might result from wasting of a spur due to attack by the headward erosion of valleys on either side . |
| 8 | This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive . |
| 9 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 10 | From this you can identify the trends and thus assign probabilities to the various types of question likely to appear on the next occasion . |
| 11 | Iraqi aircraft overflew Tehran and the holy city of Qom in January 1984 to demonstrate to the Iranian leadership that no part of Iran , except remote towns like Mashhad , was beyond their reach . |
| 12 | Tudjman , who had urged local leaders in Trogir ( west of Split ) on May 5 to demonstrate at the naval base to show the world their support for the battle being waged by the Croatian leadership , was accused by the Defence Secretariat of inflaming sentiments against the army . |
| 13 | Companies unwilling to move to the older regions had the option of moving to the new towns . |
| 14 | Global Biodiversity Strategy , a blueprint for conservation prepared by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) , the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) and the World Resources Institute , has suggested that third world countries should declare sovereignty over their genetic resources as a means of protecting the earth 's diversity of species , and allowing the countries concerned to profit from the growing demand for plants and animals . |
| 15 | In the specific example of Fig. 3.16 ( your guess is correct if you think that the arrangement has something to do with electrical machines ) there is a current-carrying loop capable to rotate around the horizontal axis in the magnetic flux ( assumed constant ) of the permanent magnet . |
| 16 | It can be limited across the whole country or across wide areas liable to suffer in the longer term ( for example , on all permeable soils such as on chalk , limestone , sand or sandstone ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Just another couple of feet , ’ cried Gambo as he nimbly moved aside and poised his cleaver ready to chop through the tortured ropes . |
| 18 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 19 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 20 | Which way is the L 2 curve likely to shift in the following cases ? ( a ) The balance of trade moves into deficit . |
| 21 | There was considerable debate in the mid-1980s of the mounting ‘ burden ’ on the working population likely to result from the growing number of pensioners in the second and third decades of the next century . |
| 22 | ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ . |
| 23 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 24 | Drouot ready to expand into the Russian market |
| 25 | If there are any area display teams willing to perform at the Annual Reunion on Saturday 19th November to be held at Warwick Park School , please contact at , , |
| 26 | With the humidity likely to lessen over the next 24 hours , Bristol 's all-sand circuit should be in perfect nick for front-running Lady Riptide . |
| 27 | They invited to the Hong Kong Sevens to play in the fifteen-man exhibition game beforehand . |
| 28 | The order may give directions on : auditing , the revision of the directors ' report or any summary financial statement , steps to be taken to bring the order to the notice of persons likely to rely on the original accounts , and on such other matters as the court thinks fit . |
| 29 | No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings . |
| 30 | Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway . |