Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once this condition is reached , say with potential difference , balance is approached much better by adjusting the quadrature component to reach a new range to that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from some new much lower minimum . |
| 2 | SEVERAL thousand hard-liners demonstrated yesterday outside the Russian parliament building to mark the second anniversary of the August 1991 coup and demand the resignation of President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 3 | And it has given the board opportunity to take the necessary action . |
| 4 | The only modern touch is the use of the occasional thunder flash to keep the wild herd on the move in the right direction . |
| 5 | A privately run dock has been opened at Antigua Yacht Club to increase the mooring space in busy Falmouth Harbour . |
| 6 | For someone who is having regression therapy to uncover a traumatic event earlier in this present lifetime , a single session may well suffice . |
| 7 | Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities . |
| 8 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 9 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 10 | Floodlight pylons have had to be taken down at St George 's Park and Newlands as part of the crash building programme to have the new stands ready for next season 's Indian tour in November . |
| 11 | When an accused faces a number of charges , it is very common for the defence advocate to offer a reduced plea to a number of the charges , provided others , often more serious ones , are dropped . |
| 12 | The garter carriage can be used to knit a ribbed welt , but always remember that if you set the garter carriage to knit a 24 row welt and then leave it , that is all it will achieve . |
| 13 | Ungar ( 1973 ) alleges that the test results on which Merrell secured permission from the Federal Drug Administration to market the chemical substance were proven to be ‘ doctored ’ , thus concealing the extent to which the company knew of the drug 's adverse side-effects . |
| 14 | It was not a simple matter of carrying out fieldwork , thinking about the results , publishing them , and waiting for peer review to ensure the next research grant . |
| 15 | Dropped from the bill was the proposal presented on Oct. 31 by Democrats Les Aspin ( Wisconsin ) and Sam Nunn ( Georgia ) , respective chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees , to divert $1,000 million from the Defence Department budget to help the Soviet Union combat hunger and demilitarize its economy . |
| 16 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 17 | Fortunately for Marcel Martin and his Rugby World Cup ( RWC ) organising committee the Namibians went into over-drive and , inspired by Mans , managed to turn around a 10–4 half-time deficit to beat the fired-up Zimbabweans 16–10 . |
| 18 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 19 | He used his pay-off money to buy the five barrel capacity plant . |
| 20 | Only the shortest of memories will have forgotten how declining Western industries successfully sought tariff and quota protection to counter the greater efficiency of Far Eastern competitors . |
| 21 | Searchers not only express their subject needs in brief and concise terms but also tend to use a broad search formulation to access the bibliographic tool , i.e. , broader than their expressed topic . |
| 22 | A Coalport collector 's plate has been presented to a historic Air Force squadron to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most daring air raids of all time . |
| 23 | If an appeal is merited , application can be made for an extension of the legal aid certificate to cover the appellate proceedings . |
| 24 | The information carried by an amplitude-modulated signal ( see section 5.9 ) is recovered by rectifying it and filtering out the carrier wave to leave the amplitude-modulating wave . |
| 25 | It 's usually a good move to enclose a reply card to encourage a prompt response : Thank you for your kind invitation I/We … will be able/unable to attend . |
| 26 | The major US aid programme to restore the Lebanese economy and to rebuild the armed forces disintegrated in January 1984 , with the collapse of the US military presence following suicide attacks on US Marine barracks and the collapse of the Phalangist government . |
| 27 | " Where did you get this ? " she asked one evening , lifting Jennifer 's silver medallion to take a closer look . |
| 28 | By the end of the 1650s , the Puritan attempt to build a Calvinist Zion in England had foundered on the rock of the nation 's preference for its traditional religious and cultural life . |
| 29 | JANUARY ‘ 89 saw the beginning of transformation at the Wallingford maltings with the launch of a massive £4 million investment programme to modernise the existing plant and give a boost to production . |
| 30 | Elaine leant back in the car seat to get a better look at him . |