Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They need to gain access to and influence the work of the whole institution . |
| 2 | The factors that influence the size of the proliferative compartment are less clear , though in rats there are genetic differences . |
| 3 | His Observations on the Circumstances which Influence the Condition of the Labouring Classes ( 1817 ) questioned the linkage by Thomas Malthus [ q.v. ] of population growth to increasing wage rates , arguing that the likely age of first marriage and thus birth rates were influenced , not by wage rates or poor-relief practices , but by perceived employment prospects which , paradoxically , were best when wages were low . |
| 4 | [ J. Barton , Observations on the Circumstances which Influence the Condition of the Labouring Classes ( ed. and intro . |
| 5 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 6 | Without a second thought the 30-year-old former England centre forward met the ball on the full , unleashing a powerful left-foot drive . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he last met the chairman of the Northern regional health authority to discuss the financial budget of East Cumbria district health authority . |
| 8 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 9 | On Jan. 10 , 1989 , Bossano met the mayor of the Spanish border town of La Línea to discuss the joint development of the area which could include Spanish use of the port at Gibraltar ( although not of the airport ) . |
| 10 | President Mitterrand of France and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany on Dec. 15 , 1989 , met the President of the Swiss Bundesrat , Jean-Pascal Delamuraz , in Basel to mark 25 years of co-operation in the Upper Rhine , and signed a tripartite agreement on further supranational co-operation in the area . |
| 11 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 12 | The watchful French gunners behind Bois Bourrus soon pin-pointed the train by the tell-tale smoke from its engine , and it was forced to retire , a little ignominiously . |
| 13 | The Restoration lacked the spontaneity of the Elizabethan age . |
| 14 | The corresponding German guns — the 30.5cm and the large 42cm — lacked the mobility of the Austrian pieces , which were those most frequently used during the war of movement in the early months of the conflict . |
| 15 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 16 | The dancing was still going on too , although Seb thought the playing of the fiddlers lacked the exuberance of the first night . |
| 17 | Chéron lacked the finesse of the old-established dealers in the art world , but he brought energy and a flair for spotting new talent to the trade . |
| 18 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 19 | Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well . |
| 20 | Cliftonville had a wonderful opportunity to go into the lead just after the resumption when Tim McCann , lively and dangerous darted through , but as the keeper came out to narrow the angle , he whipped the ball past the far upright . |
| 21 | When the Swiss whipped the ball across the halfway line I was confident that I could cut it out , legally . |
| 22 | ‘ Like all provincial towns , it will lose its individuality , ’ said Hardy when presented with the Freedom of the Borough in 1910 , but he could not have foreseen the demise of the small local shops so intrinsic to the town 's character , or the threat of a huge new shopping centre . |
| 23 | It should be said that the forecast figures have probably turned out to be slightly high , particularly for 1991 , since it seems unlikely that the US Department of Commerce would have foreseen the downturn in the global economy which is now biting so hard in all industries . |
| 24 | As the labour market tightened , faster product wage growth limited the expansion of the backward sector , and thereby ensured an elastic labour supply for the dynamic modern sectors . |
| 25 | In household pets whose exercise is limited the presence of the tracheal nodules is well tolerated , and animals can survive for long periods with little distress . |
| 26 | The growth in the number and complexity of bills further limited the influence of the individual MP . |
| 27 | The US Supreme Court has effectively limited the power of the Endangered Species Act , by dismissing a case which sought to establish that federal bodies must comply with the Act when funding projects overseas . |
| 28 | Not necessarily , because the Proterozoic may have witnessed the achievement of the multicellular grade of organization several times , and in quite unrelated lineages . |
| 29 | Hence , in recent years , we have witnessed the publication of the Gulbenkian Report , the report by the APU Working Party on Aesthetic Development , and the setting up of various national arts organizations , such as the National Association for Education in the Arts , all of which have argued the philosophical justification for arts education . |
| 30 | In the years since those debates we have witnessed the rise of the Labour Party and the specific concern to secure independent working-class representation in the House of Commons . |