Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the sets were completely different , the Theatre Royal having a much taller stage , White had to restage the movements during the two-week break . |
| 2 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 3 | The participants from Eastern Europe may well have been surprised at how lightly their Western counterparts were ready to sacrifice the traditions of the great east Berlin museums . |
| 4 | The end of the era of stable exchange rates in 1972 coincided with the birth of a whole new class of financial instruments designed to accommodate the uncertainties of the new era . |
| 5 | Built in 1881 to accommodate the employees of the nearby Rocksavage railway station , it was a straight terrace of some thirty tiny one-storey houses , each fronted by a strip of grass and hedged railings betokening the gentility of its original occupants . |
| 6 | It was a Labour government that proposed to implement a process of ‘ organic change ’ to accommodate the demands of the former county boroughs ( DOE 1979 ) . |
| 7 | If the current state of practice of assessment is to accommodate the demands of the National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) and to meet the aspirations of practitioners to improve practice in relation to older people , it is important to begin the process of development by defining the principles of good practice which comprehensive , multidisciplinary assessment should embody . |
| 8 | There may be a corresponding disadvantage in having to accommodate the partners of the acquired firm who are unwilling to retire from practice . |
| 9 | Faced with a growing number of desertions from within Tory ranks over the peace negotiations of 1711 – 13 , Oxford needed to court the support of the Scottish Jacobite peers and Jacobite MPs to maintain his majority in Parliament . |
| 10 | Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable . |
| 11 | Christianity however , continued to uphold the doctrine of the one ‘ god ’ , creator of the universe . |
| 12 | To protect the public , to uphold the standing of the medical profession , and to safeguard self regulation the GMC needs to be willing to investigate treatments offered by doctors that are risky and unscientific . |
| 13 | The applicant seeks to uphold the judgment of the Divisional Court on two quite different grounds . |
| 14 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 15 | The whole Creation aesthetic seems based in the sad conviction that rock is over , it 's been and gone , and all that 's left is to uphold the legacy through the Dark Ages of Plastic Pop . |
| 16 | I try to kill the man with the first shot . |
| 17 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 18 | In particular item eleven point three of that where the H M I said sufficient capital should be provided to enable the provision of the southern fire station to go ahead . |
| 19 | It was an opportune moment to return because the citizens of Aberdeen had embarked on a series of ambitious street improvements at the same time as the technology had developed to enable the exploitation of the plentiful local granite for building purposes . |
| 20 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 21 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 22 | In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap . |
| 23 | All these seasonal rituals had important social functions too ; they helped to affirm the unity of the civic community , to create good fellowship , and to channel youthful deviant behaviour into socially acceptable misrule . |
| 24 | In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts . |
| 25 | " One signal achievement of the French Revolution " , writes John Keep , " was to affirm the primacy of the civil power " . |
| 26 | As many of those were itinerant , following the seasons from farm to farm and from wold , to moor , to dale , there were few to mourn the passing of the gentle , self-effacing man ! |
| 27 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 28 | If the going concern qualification 's role is to signal the distribution of the likely cash flows , further questions arise . |
| 29 | In 1929 , two years after Nizan entry to the party , the Wall Street Crash was to signal the seriousness of the impending economic disaster . |
| 30 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |