Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switch the Scroll Lock OFF after use to free the Left and Right direction keys . |
| 2 | A more realistic approach might be to attempt to reduce the pace of change to meet the economic and environmental needs of the present time . |
| 3 | The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country . |
| 4 | H. E. Alexander describes the four basic aspects to this legislation as public disclosure of the monetary influences on elected officers , expenditure limits to meet the problem of rising costs , contribution restrictions to meet the problem of candidates obligating themselves to certain interest groups , and public funding which aimed to provide an alternative source of funding to replace the prohibited and limited contributions under FECA . |
| 5 | This three year programme of research examines the present and future effects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( PACE ) and the Prosecution of Offences Act . |
| 6 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 7 | In June 1989 Gorbachev accused " top economic leaders " of reluctance to help the private and family-based farms whose development had been recommended by the March 1989 central committee plenum . |
| 8 | The Science of Woman shows the difficult and painful steps that groups of practitioners took to shape a new field according to their concerns and interests . |
| 9 | What the film demonstrates above all is the power of television to deceive the uninformed and the gullible . |
| 10 | A layer of liquid separates the two and this absorbs the chitin from the old skeleton , leaving the hard sclerotinised parts connected by the thinnest of tissues . |
| 11 | His successor Charles the Good increased his own powers of coercion to protect the weak and the tillers of the soil , while limiting those of others through prohibitions on weapon-carrying in markets or towns , and on the lighting of beacons to signal the start of a private war . |
| 12 | You know , people swinging on chandelier , swordfights over the table , the sort of thing Hrun the Barbarian and the Weasel are always getting involved in . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the first and second defendants ' appeal against Mr Justice Vinelott 's order that the defendants permit the plaintiff 's solicitors to inspect and take copies of an affidavit in the possession of the defendants ' solicitors . |
| 14 | The study in these of the use or effectiveness of language devalues the signified and meaning . |
| 15 | Smaller minority parties which might come into play include the Welsh and Scottish nationalists — the latter most likely to make a deal with Labour , based on a common ground on economic and social policy . |
| 16 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 17 | This puritan streak in punk caught the political and cultural shift into ‘ hard ’ styles only too well : ‘ It 'll be English ( fascism ) : ratty , mean , pinched , hand in glove with Thatcher as mother sadist over all her whimpering little public schoolboys , the seventies Unity ( Mitford ) to finally consummate the fascist union . ’ |
| 18 | STEPHEN MANSFIELD Hopes gone up in smoke : Phil Green of People In Need examines the charred and sodden mess that was once a £1million aid cargo for Romania and Bosnia |
| 19 | Thus if the buying member properly rejects the tender or documents , LCH may in turn do the same and return them to the selling member . |
| 20 | Now , you find that those mirror images are not superimposable so I can in order to superimpose the red and the white if only I can on doing that , straight away the blue and the green are non-superimposable . |
| 21 | Kanemaru had accepted the vice-presidency of the party in January 1992 in order to revitalize the unpopular and politically moribund administration of Miyazawa , who had been elected party leader and Prime Minister three months earlier . |
| 22 | Firms experiencing technical change are selected in order to assess the social and economic consequences of such change . |
| 23 | Directional planning involves identifying barriers and potentials and choosing a course in order to overcome the former and make best use of the latter . |
| 24 | Whilst accepting the decision of the Senate , the US and Philippine governments agreed that the closure of the base should be spread over three years in order to minimize the military and economic dislocation involved . |
| 25 | He came to believe that in order to help the poor and to achieve social harmony both the state and charity should work to improve living and working conditions . |
| 26 | The Khmers Rouges accused them of spying " in order to help the Vietnamese and Phnom Penh forces " . |
| 27 | Jimmy chartered two Canadair CL44 cargo aircraft and in order to get the left and right stabilisers and rear fuselage sections on board , had to cut much of the wreckage — without , of course , destroying any evidence that might subsequently turn out to be required . |
| 28 | The resulting path to individuation means the conscious and the unconscious polarities within the individual become joined , so that the anthropological journeyman hero experiences a kind of crisis ; for as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) points out : |
| 29 | As usual , no sooner had I put brush to paper did the local and tourist onlookers arrive , along with a thirsty dog . |
| 30 | Evolution as a ladder of progression , where the tiny and simple aggregate together over time to become the large and complex . |