Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This , though , is probably the most popular modern vision of the Pacific — a vision of a place of unbridled growth , vigour and wealth , one that has helped to spawn modish concepts like the Pacific Rim , the Pacific Basin and the Pacific Community ( each of which will be considered in detail later ) . |
| 32 | Through the use of registers ATNs are able to enforce further restrictions on the input such as number agreement . |
| 33 | For that very reason it would be unusual to include detailed provisions in the partnership agreement itself . |
| 34 | Most of the attempts to include social factors in the study of erosion and conservation , as the four illustrative quotations show , imply that the social problems start with ‘ them ’ , the land-users themselves . |
| 35 | It is possible to arrange a sentence in different ways , to emphasise different aspects of the action it describes . |
| 36 | No index is shown here , but this would be the last stage in the compilation of the scheme ; besides attempting to classify some items by the scheme , the index serves to check the scheme 's likely effectiveness . |
| 37 | Drama provides another major resource in overcoming passivity , in stimulating children to become actively involved in thinking about language , and in helping them to enjoy literature at school so that they will continue to read and to act and to attend theatrical performances for the rest of their lives . |
| 38 | The trusts stand to lose direct grants from the councils . |
| 39 | The festival 's aim is to promote interesting activities in the countryside which at the same time encourage environmental awareness and boost the local economy . |
| 40 | Maclean also concentrated on getting the ball past the talented Umar and denying him further chances to hit crisp drives into the nicks and towards difficult angles . |
| 41 | Clear as it might be that this was no time to continue old feuds with the shipowners , to lower one 's guard against them was too much to be expected . |
| 42 | Allowing for intersubject variability , one night still expect to see marked changes in the histology of the small bowel after infusion of 100 mg of pure peptide . |
| 43 | The childen are protected on their journey by members of the rebel SPLA , the Sudan People 's Liberation Army fighting the Sudanese Governments plan to impose Islamic Laws in the south . |
| 44 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 45 | As regards intent , the United Kingdom Government had never concealed the fact that the restrictions introduced by the Act of 1988 were intended to exclude Spanish interests from the United Kingdom fishing industry . |
| 46 | ‘ An my experience at Imperial had shown me the growing need in this country to find free-standing sites on the outskirts of towns , away from parking problems and inner city violence . |
| 47 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 48 | The previous week , Virgin had requested immediate permission to go over the facility by some £200,000 , to meet short-term outgoings for the airline ( to pay , in fact , for the engine which had expired on the air-operator 's test flight ) . |
| 49 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 50 | In order to provide specific illustrations of the ideas and techniques discussed in the book , we use a number of well-known conventional computers as running examples throughout the text . |
| 51 | its primary aims were , and still are , to encourage professional standards in the industry by supporting and promoting illustrators — the only body of its kind in this country to represent and campaign for illustrators ' rights . |
| 52 | The regime attempted to impose narrow restrictions on the ability of the different classes and groups within society to organize and articulate their aspirations . |
| 53 | We have tried to obtain glassfibre moulds in the past , have not succeeded and would be grateful if you could advise us on any way that is known to you of building such a craft . |
| 54 | In short , then , while one is able to adduce specific reasons for the creation of certain of the joint muderris/muftiliks , it is important to recognize that these offices were a not uncommon feature of the Ottoman learned profession in the sixteenth century and that the sheer momentum of established practice may count for as much in assessing the reasons for their creation as what appear to be locally important considerations in each individual case . |
| 55 | Six members of the PP had been arrested on April 6 on the orders of a magistrate in Valencia and questioned for a week about their involvement in irregular financial dealings to obtain political donations for the party worth 2,000 million pesetas ( about US$19,000,000 ) . |
| 56 | If this does appear to be happening there is a need either to warn the teachers in the unit documentation or maybe even to indicate possible dangers within the program . |
| 57 | An awareness of these pitfalls has encouraged Braudel 's successors to use the notion of the longue durée in a comparatively narrow sense to designate stable features of the environment which can be seen to constrain social conjonctures . |
| 58 | In the millennium Richard Norton-Taylor thinks that worker-farmer cooperatives should prevail , that large estates should be managed by local communities , and that the land should be used to meet expressed needs of the people . |
| 59 | From a purely selfish point of view , if the policy were to indicate specific areas of the county erm where this policy would er be appropriate and would apply erm and as long as it excluded Craven , then I think |
| 60 | He had already begun to establish friendly relations with the man , portraying himself meanwhile as an amiable if somewhat tedious fellow with francophobic leanings . |