Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I warmly welcome the opportunity to debate the many forward-looking suggestions the APB has put forward . |
| 2 | THE Ffestiniog Railway Trust have issued the following statement regarding the FR 's bid to revive the former Welsh Highland Railway . |
| 3 | Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally . |
| 4 | Bozburun , in a deep and well sheltered inlet , is worth visiting to see the busy traditional boatyard , and a base to explore the many local day anchorages . |
| 5 | The next time you will be much more on your guard to avoid the same interviewing fault . |
| 6 | Anthropological analysis of these beliefs , I believe , should add a crucial semantic dimension to compliment the many non-qualitative enquiries into policing now in progress . |
| 7 | This is not the place to explore the many alternative theories of the firm , but it might be worth noting that , for example , the theory of sales revenue maximisation ( Baumol 1959 ) assumes that managers pursue the objective of maximising revenue rather than profits . |
| 8 | This byroad was formerly the main highway ; it is now little used although it is kept in good repair to serve the few local farmsteads . |
| 9 | Generous to a fault , he had booked the ballroom suite at the best hotel in Lexington and a popular jazz band to entertain the several hundred guests whom Cora-Beth had invited for Harry 's party . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it can be validly argued that it would be asking too much from a private entity to provide the same public notice that public registries have provided . |
| 11 | Moreover , methods now permit recycled paper to have the same aesthetic appeal as virgin pulp . |
| 12 | The same autograph-hunting crowds wait for her and the same bland interviewers are at hand to ask the same repetitive questions for TV , radio , newspaper or magazines . |
| 13 | Western languages may use puns or play on similar-sounding words , but there are few , if any , direct equivalents to the Chinese tendency to give the same symbolic meaning to an object and a quality whose names sound the same . |
| 14 | They also had to share ordinary police duties with Royal Military Police in order to give the latter civilian experience and to condition the public to being policed by them . |
| 15 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 16 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 17 | The Americans , by contrast , have , until the current backlash , attempted to expand the insanity defence , with its controversial ‘ not guilty ’ judgment , in order to achieve the same compassionate aim of keeping the mentally-ill out of prison . |
| 18 | Therefore , if the firm is efficient with regard to its investment policy , the investor must accept the same level of risk as the firm in order to achieve the same expected return . |
| 19 | It is better described as a full day 's expedition , and those who undertake it need to be well-provisioned and should allow ample time to see the many natural attractions along the way . |
| 20 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 21 | We can predict it simply from our reasoning that both the beetle genes and the bacterial genes will take whatever steps lie in their power to engineer the same future events — events favourable to the propagation of beetle eggs . |
| 22 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
| 23 | The firms use the factors of production to produce the many different types of goods and services which they then sell to households ( whose spending is called consumption ) , the government , foreigners ( who buy exports ) and other firms ( whose spending on capital goods is called investment ) . |