Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially , formulating a theory of regulation involves imputing motives to the various bodies involved in regulation ; various theories are obtained by imputing various motives . |
| 2 | This involves helping staff through the possible stages of individual crises identified some time ago in the USA , eg the phases of ‘ shock ’ , ‘ defensive retreat ’ , ‘ acknowledgement ’ , ‘ adaption and change ’ Fink , Beak and Taddeo , 1971 ) . |
| 3 | The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index . |
| 4 | It is no wonder that the right hon. Gentleman wants to support elements of the social charter being imposed here . |
| 5 | There is a contradiction which has pervaded responses to the National Curriculum in special education . |
| 6 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 7 | The exhibition has aroused comment in the British press as the first to impose a stiff £6 entrance charge , albeit including an ‘ acoustiguide ’ a sort of sophisticated Walkman . |
| 8 | Tracy , of Aldborough Walk , said her one-year-old son Jamie has developed asthma from the damp and suffered from colds and chest infections . |
| 9 | To make predictions about nuclear shapes a model needs to include aspects of the individual motion of the neutrons and protons . |
| 10 | Dittany when dried is greyer than malotira , although the leaves are similarly furry like so much of the vegetation , which needs to conserve moisture in the hot atmosphere , and the tea made from it has a muskier , more soothing quality . |
| 11 | ‘ You forget , my lady , that the Queen has treated Robert with the utmost honour . ’ |
| 12 | Dr Howe , who has treated Tony for the past four years , said : ‘ It has been discussed endlessly in the newspapers and I think it is time to let it be . ’ |
| 13 | It is clear from this brief appraisal that prevention through genetic counselling has limited value for the first born , but is an important consideration for parents who have had a mentally affected child or at least conceived one . |
| 14 | These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again . |
| 15 | SNA communications house Systems Strategies Inc says it has designated UnixWare as the primary development platform for its new Express 2.0 Unix-to-IBM ( AS/400 and mainframe ) comms software . |
| 16 | Culture … has to erect barriers against the aggressive instincts of men and hold their manifestations in check by reaction-formations in men 's minds ( 1939 : 51 ) . |
| 17 | has arranged visits to the following Group companies for the brothers : Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] Ltd ; Enterprise Engineering Services Ltd ; Gas turbine Fuel Systems Ltd ; Scottish Rig Repairers Ltd ; Wood-Way Hydraulic Services Ltd ; Wood Group Engineering Services [ Peterhead ] Ltd ; Wood Group Fire Protection Ltd . |
| 18 | A SURVEY of the tourism industry in the East Midlands has highlighted concern over the Uniform Business Rate ( UBR ) . |
| 19 | The Reuss valley floor is comparatively wide and level for a considerable stretch south of Altdorf ( 447m , 1,466ft above sea level ) and only begins to narrow at Erstfeld ( 472m , 1,548ft ) , by which point the new motorway N2 has parted company with the old Gotthard road No 2 as well as the railway , having crossed to the west bank of the river . |
| 20 | France , under-rated by many , has outgrown Germany throughout the postwar period . |
| 21 | Bank of Scotland has joined forces with the legal insurer Allianz Legal Protection to provide legal fees cover . |
| 22 | RUNNING Magazine has joined forces with the National Fun Run to create a new award in recognition of the best club team performances in this year 's race . |
| 23 | The UK 's largest friendly society , Family Assurance , has joined forces with the medical group Private Patients Plan ( PPP ) to make it easier for young people to buy their first home , with a policy called Generation Builder . |
| 24 | wants to see plans for the modified programme in early June , and a first draft is expected by mid-May . |
| 25 | However , Grey wants to see modifications in the connecting rods . |
| 26 | This inversive symmetry on our Euclidean page corresponds to mirror symmetry in the hyperbolic plane . |
| 27 | But there are times when the analogies get stretched so far that the brain starts to lose contact with the original image . |
| 28 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 29 | A Paris conference on the Amazon forests has given publicity to the continuing destruction of the area . |
| 30 | In this sense it is significant that , unlike in France and Britain , no politician of note has given voice to the growing disquiet in Germany about the move in Europe towards a Federalist state . |