Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Similarly , including current cost accounts marks a shift towards an entity view because there the income statement shows the current cost profit after maintaining the operating capability of the business as a whole , as well as current cost profit attributable to shareholders .
3 The majority opinion emphasises the subjective condition that the General Assembly must be satisfied of the need for the wider powers , but does not make the power of granting oral hearings rest upon the precondition of failure of its duties by South Africa .
4 However , the WPA was persuaded to give up its seat to the PPP , as did the TUF ; in return the PPP , which as the majority party had the constitutional right to determine the two NCLDO seats , allocated one to itself and the other to the WPA ; the final distribution of Assembly seats was PPP 35 , PNC 27 , WPA 2 , TUF 1 .
5 Most Tory MPs are determined to maintain the tradition that the majority party nominates the new Speaker when the position becomes vacant .
6 In a Note of Reservation , however , two members of the Majority Report took the opposite view :
7 Each of the PCR products was sequenced either directly with specific oligonucleotides as sequencing primers using 32 P-dATP or subcloned into pCR-1000 vector ( Invitrogen ) and the plasmid DNA containing the different inserts from each of the PCR analysis were sequenced using M13 forward and reverse primers or specific primers as described above .
8 When Cripps had abandoned the Unity Campaign to support the Labour Party 's Immediate Programme his action had been fully endorsed by the Communist Party .
9 The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful .
10 The Working-Set database contains the current units of work taken , by request of the lexicographer , from the Main Database .
11 On 31 October 1986 Elfed Wayne Smart was convicted by a jury at the Crown Court at Cardiff of the murder of a 16-year-old schoolboy and the trial judge imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment upon him .
12 If any question arises as to this , the defence is entitled , and is under a duty , to invite the trial judge to exercise the discretionary power given to him by section 17 of the Evidence Act , which corresponds exactly to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ( 28 & 29 Vict. c. 18 ) and provides :
13 Late last month , the trial judge acquitted the accused on the charge of aggravated sexual assault .
14 After the RKO contract expired the few unmarried Girls came home .
15 And it has given the board opportunity to take the necessary action .
16 The millet system enabled the Christian Slavs to maintain their churches and monasteries .
17 Loft : this is the ability of the filling to expand within the shell construction to trap the required still air to keep you warm and cosy .
18 The term ‘ loft ’ is used to describe the ability of the filling to expand within the shell construction to produce the required layer of still air .
19 Not only does BSL learning apparently take much longer ( ‘ beginners ’ were people with up to three years ' experience ) but only the beginner group showed the normal pattern of understanding being better than production .
20 Of all grammatical types , the verb metaphor displays the greatest amount of interanimation .
21 The verb find follows the same pattern as the verbs of perception in its use with the infinitive .
22 The overall evaluation of phospholipid composition compared with healthy controls showed that the lysolecithin part becomes the lowest phospholipid componentin both peptic ulcer and atrophic gastritis .
23 The delightful chapel had no other callers ; the afternoon light turned the stained-glass windows to kaleidoscopes , and outside , the westering sun gilded the tiles and eyebrows of the roofs and high old buildings .
24 The other approach would be to do some lateral thinking and use the effluent stream containing the caustic to neutralise an acidic effluent stream from another part of the plant .
25 On the other hand if the increase in the money supply takes the private sector completely by surprise so that the whole of this increase is unanticipated , the short-run response of output will be much more pronounced .
26 An increase in the anticipated growth of the money supply raises the anticipated inflation rate and thereby lowers the attractiveness of holding the proceeds of output sales .
27 Even if , for the sake of argument , one were to take at face value the Lucas hypothesis that an unanticipated increase in the money supply raises the notional supply of labour , what incentive do employers have to take on any extra labour ?
28 Several authors agree that the Bogside riot represented the symbolic defence of community ( Easthope , 1976 ; Scarman , 1972 ) .
29 With the case cover removed the next job is to locate the existing CPU and Coprocessor ( if fitted ) .
30 The Text table contains the full text of all versions of all entries from whatever source , OED , Supplement , NEWS ( New Words to be added for 1989 ) , or those entries created directly by lexicographers .
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