Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second technique developed utilises the natural enrichment of the rare-earth elements in fluorite . |
| 2 | With foot pointed raise the top leg and do 35 mini raises . |
| 3 | The executive responsible is a member of the Board assigned to ensure the successful progress and completion of the project . |
| 4 | Brown , a black parent , was supported by the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) in a case designed to test the widespread practice of having separate schools for blacks and whites . |
| 5 | Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial . |
| 6 | We look after those little things , which make such a difference to your enjoyment … baby changing facilities , an exciting quiz trail designed to test the whole family , a free camera loan facility … and more ! |
| 7 | Timoney ( 1987 ) reports on a study undertaken to examine the current control of infection practices in a community unit of management , and makes some recommendations regarding improved communication with hospital staff , use of protective clothing , wound care , practices related to the use of catheters and drainage systems , disposal of equipment and so on . |
| 8 | One of the earlier manifestations of pressurisation hazards was the Comet 1 accident near Rome in 1954 when a fatigue crack was found to have propagated from a cut-out in the top of the fuselage designed to accommodate the automatic direction finder aerial system . |
| 9 | At the inception of this UK research programme designed to examine the intergenerational transmission of poverty , Harriet Wilson ( 1974 ) investigated the relevance of Sir Keith 's ideas on ‘ preparation for parenthood ’ to resolving the problems of poor families in inner cities . |
| 10 | This is caused by ‘ iron ochre ’ , a generic term used to describe the iron-derived material which blocks drains . |
| 11 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 12 | Prime minister Georges Pompidou said that ‘ groups of enragés [ roughly ‘ rabid extremists ’ — the term used to describe the extreme left in the French revolution of 1789 ] are encouraging the spread of disorder with the aim of destroying society … ’ . |
| 13 | This would generate the extra revenue needed to pay the higher cost of replacing nuclear energy with biomass , compared to replacing it with fossil fuels . |
| 14 | Action taken to determine the desired nursing establishment levels should indicate the optimum manpower profile for each ward and unit . |
| 15 | Previously , the Church had been usually defined as a ‘ society ’ ( even a juridically ‘ perfect society ’ ) , a term taken to imply the primary need for authority , and frequently used in relation to the state . |
| 16 | Indeed , in many ways , the " moral " dimension of the communist cause was enhanced after 1935 precisely because of the existence of a hostile , aggressive fascist bloc determined to crush the Soviet state . |
| 17 | Still , as Gergen moved into the White House , nothing was on the table , although the task force created to draft the presidential plan had lived out its commission and disbanded . |
| 18 | The instrument chosen to contain the Soviet Union in Asia was the Baghdad Pact . |
| 19 | To Leese , Mosley was a ‘ kosher fascist ’ , a Jewish agent planted to discredit the whole concept of fascism in Britain ; to Mosley , Leese was no more than an anti-semitic crank . |
| 20 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 21 | A simple turbocharging job turns the lethargic twin-litre 940 SE into a spirited performer designed to stay the right side of the company car tax . |
| 22 | His attitudes are best illustrated by this typical passage from Thucydides ( iv.83 : 424 BC ; the details of the diplomacy are irrelevant ) : Perdikkas ' diplomacy was subtler than just pitting Athens against Sparta and conversely : before the great Peloponnesian War broke out he shrewdly persuaded the Greek cities near Olynthus to coalesce into a federation ; this was an act designed to weaken the greater confederacy of the Delian League , since Athens ' policy ( Thuc. iii . |
| 23 | I just referred Councillor Wild to paragraph eleven on page A three , because , it it does say reasonably clearly , I think , that the Policy Committee resolved to review the overall level of spending in January nineteen ninety-four in the light of the Revenue Support Grant Settlement . |
| 24 | As a former chairman of the leisure committee , I am well aware of the work done to promote the super leisure facilities provided throughout Wear Valley by the former Labour council . |
| 25 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 26 | Central South helped rescue the leading car of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell who were well and truly stuck in a water hole and had to be towed out . |
| 27 | When the Legislature determined to reform the Common Law rules two courses were open to it . |
| 28 | In addition , one of the duties of a water authority engineer controlling an outside contract is to tie consultants to a tight brief , which specifies the minimum work required to achieve the necessary flood reduction , while at the same time protecting the environment . |
| 29 | A hypothetical situation or story used to illustrate the typical occurrence of a structural pattern . |
| 30 | There is plenty of evidence in the Review that taking a professional stance of this kind helped sustain the discursive architecture of English studies in the interwar period , especially in taking the disputative and judgemental stance of Parliament and the Law and borrowing the language from those discourses . |