Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For light travelling radially in a region described by the Schwarzschild metric , eqn ( 4.10 ) , with , becomes Then if a star shrinks to a radius less than r the time taken for light to emerge from the spherical surface at r becomes infinite , which confirms Michell 's conjecture . |
| 2 | I take the reasons for this to lie in the heroic myth shared by doctors and public . |
| 3 | I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment . |
| 4 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 5 | Good after that to return to the big glass . |
| 6 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
| 7 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 8 | With a span of control of 5 and a salary differential of 25 per cent , this implies a ‘ mark-up ’ over the front-line costs of ⅓ to allow for the hierarchical ‘ overhead ’ . |
| 9 | Staines , it appeared , was not far from Chertsey , but it was a long and tedious journey , and meant travelling by omnibus first of all to get to the big station across the river in York Road . |
| 10 | An 8-handicap player , he had gone round in 74 , which gave him a net score of 66 to add to the previous day 's 67 . |
| 11 | Despite the refusal of supporters of Zafy to participate in the new unity government , Razamasy said that it included members of the Movement for Proletarian Power ( MFM ) and the Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( MMSM ) . |
| 12 | More to the point , the use of Eastern Europe as a crutch for the Soviet economy 's deficiencies has only reduced the ability of both to compete with the outside world . |
| 13 | He revels in the physical quality of the paint and that sheer primaeval force and energy is there for all to see in the late works . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've denounced facts which are there for all to see in the RAI accounts , and the public prosecutors are looking into some of them . |
| 15 | There are a number of locator devices available , with little to choose between the best . |
| 16 | In Brasov , 90 people are now knitting regularly , with more to follow through the three schools mentioned above . |
| 17 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
| 18 | In the same way , attempts by a small but highly articulate pressure group around the journal Nature , founded in 1869 to argue for the social utility of scientific research , gained only limited success . |
| 19 | This involves keeping one concession in reserve to use as the final push towards agreement : ‘ If you are willing to place an order now , I 'm willing to offer an extra 2½ per cent discount . ’ |
| 20 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 21 | He worked for the British Ministry of Information in New York during 1915 , returning to England in 1916 to enlist with the Irish Guards , but was wounded and invalided out in 1917 . |
| 22 | O'BRIEN claims credit for being the only member of Dublin 's coalition government team at Sunningdale in 1973 to warn about the destructive effect of the Council of Ireland — in which members of the Stormont executive and Dublin government were to meet . |
| 23 | O'Brien claims credit for being the only member of Dublin 's coalition government team at Sunningdale in 1973 to warn about the destructive effect of the Council of Ireland |
| 24 | It is the oldest order of Chivalry in the world , founded in 1099 to care for the sick and wounded soldiers in the Crusades . |
| 25 | There are also seven major research projects , four on aspects of rural land use , from private woodlands and the rural landscape in general to control of the perceived over-production of arable crops , two on the evaluation of energy supply and conservation options and one on the management of hazardous , non-nuclear , chemical wastes . |
| 26 | Despite their small numbers , the Trotskyists managed to create two organizations in 1937 to work within the Labour Party as they had done within the ILP . |
| 27 | A number of leaders and former prominent members of the US-backed contra movement , officially known as the Nicaraguan Resistance ( Resistencia Nicaragüense — RN ) , returned to Nicaragua from exile in 1989 to participate in the electoral process , being required to sign a statement renouncing armed activities . |
| 28 | The Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front ( FPMR ) , a major left-wing guerrilla group founded in 1983 to fight against the military regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , decided to abandon its armed struggle on June 1 . |
| 29 | The husband left the matrimonial home in 1990 to live with the other woman . |
| 30 | In the event , Mountbatten remained as Governor-General of India , in which capacity , at the invitation of the Congress leaders , he was briefly and secretly to resume executive power in 1947 to deal with the communal violence which threatened to destroy the infant state . |