Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , they can be ignored by monetary authorities seeking to control the overall price level . |
| 2 | Diplomatic sources say the ANC and the government plan to call a national referendum on the power-sharing deal if the smaller political groups decline to attend the multi-party conference to refine and ratify the plan drawn up by the two major political players . |
| 3 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
| 4 | On the following day , after a bitter debate , the bill was passed by 273 votes to 158 , a level of support identical with that achieved in 1990 and 15 votes short of the two-thirds support required to override the anticipated presidential veto . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the action , that the statutory framework leading to the grant of planning permission envisaged that a local planning authority would balance the interests of the community against those of individuals ; that where a planning authority had granted consent to the development of an area , the measure of disturbance to individuals had to be considered against the changed character of the neighbourhood and those living close to a public highway affected by that change had to accept the increased volume of traffic in the greater public interest ; and that , accordingly , since as a result of planning permission the two roads now gave access to a commercial dock operating 24 hours a day , the serious disturbance to individuals from the movement of heavy goods vehicles was not an actionable nuisance ( post , pp. 460G–H , 461A–C , H — 462B , C–F ) . |
| 6 | For disappointing though the Act was to prove to the great and unpropertied majority whose aspirations had been absorbed into the emotional dynamic needed to sustain the political will to secure its passage through Parliament , nevertheless it had shown that the Constitution could be changed constitutionally . |
| 7 | Dancing rebel Paul Mercurio adds a little Spanish sex to his stride , takes on the ballroom bosses and falls for frump turned dancehall diva Tara Morice , while the relentlessly zippy direction tries to match the hypermanic bump and hustle . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that the speaker in that case intended to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by those whom he was addressing . |
| 9 | Er , a particular concern at the time of writing the report was the position concerning the long outstanding proposals to develop to redevelop the two sites in Harlow erm to date we have no information from the county , er , there was scheduled to be erm , the meeting due to take place on the twenty second of September but the county er cancelled that meeting so it 's impossible at this stage to give any further comment on that erm although I believe that matter 's being taken up . |
| 10 | " In this context , the European Council notes that in the near future several governments intend to submit specific multi-annual programmes designed to secure the requisite progress on convergence [ see also p. 38201 ] … |
| 11 | In July the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity agreed to ask the national parliaments of Western Europe to lend their voices to the argument . |
| 12 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 13 | A series of fugitive , fictional voices set to illumine the rural microcosm , with a grander national pageant glimpsed fitfully in the distance . |
| 14 | The Warsaw Pact might no longer be a threat to the West , but what was the future of NATO in the new era where Allied nations sought to realise the so-called ‘ peace dividend ’ by cutting defence spending ? |
| 15 | The sole churchman to try to raise the Black issue in an effective way was Rev. Roy Magee , minister of Saintfield Presbyterian Church . |
| 16 | And this … ’ he gestured with his head , his strong neck turning to encompass the huge estate — the palace , the lake , the orchards , the view of the distant mountains , ‘ it 's beautiful . |
| 17 | After the initial impact of Anatolian and Persian designs and their consequent fusion with the traditional decorative schemes of each country , European designs tended to reflect the broader artistic and design movements of each successive period . |
| 18 | To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture . |
| 19 | The Israeli delegation refused to discuss the controversial issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 20 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 21 | This finding serves to refute the powerful myth that older people are neglected by their family and that the main burden of caring for older people falls upon the state . |
| 22 | I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe . |
| 23 | The ‘ superstructure ’ of ideas and social institutions comes to reproduce the economic base : ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch ’ , Marx claimed , and ‘ the state is but the executive committee of the whole bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 24 | Yet at the same time , social policy and public attitudes combined to define the elderly as an increasingly useless group in society . |
| 25 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 26 | The Continental ceramics sales at Christie 's and Sotheby 's on 1 March and 2 March continued to demonstrate the basic soundness and stability of this field . |
| 27 | Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions ( Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | HUNDREDS OF heavy metal fans were left stranded at Derby Station last Saturday when British Rail failed to run the usual special train to London after the massive Donington Monsters of Rock festival . |
| 29 | His remarks are devastating for emerging British riders striving to follow the golden trail blazed by legends like Colonel Harry Llewellyn who won Britain 's first equestrian gold with ‘ Foxhunter ’ at Helsinki in l952 . |
| 30 | Hills 's visit to Tokyo was described by observers as a precursor to a second round of talks known as the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) — a series of theoretical discussions designed to change the broad economic characteristics responsible for the USA 's huge trade deficit with Japan [ for September 1989 SII talks see p. 36892 ] . |