Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , they can be ignored by monetary authorities seeking to control the overall price level . |
| 2 | Diplomatic sources say the ANC and the government plan to call a national referendum on the power-sharing deal if the smaller political groups decline to attend the multi-party conference to refine and ratify the plan drawn up by the two major political players . |
| 3 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
| 4 | Er , a particular concern at the time of writing the report was the position concerning the long outstanding proposals to develop to redevelop the two sites in Harlow erm to date we have no information from the county , er , there was scheduled to be erm , the meeting due to take place on the twenty second of September but the county er cancelled that meeting so it 's impossible at this stage to give any further comment on that erm although I believe that matter 's being taken up . |
| 5 | " In this context , the European Council notes that in the near future several governments intend to submit specific multi-annual programmes designed to secure the requisite progress on convergence [ see also p. 38201 ] … |
| 6 | In practice professional valuers tend to prefer the comparative method and builders the residual method , but for valuations for annual financial or management accounts it would perhaps be prudent to take an average of the result obtained using both methods . |
| 7 | A series of fugitive , fictional voices set to illumine the rural microcosm , with a grander national pageant glimpsed fitfully in the distance . |
| 8 | The Warsaw Pact might no longer be a threat to the West , but what was the future of NATO in the new era where Allied nations sought to realise the so-called ‘ peace dividend ’ by cutting defence spending ? |
| 9 | After the initial impact of Anatolian and Persian designs and their consequent fusion with the traditional decorative schemes of each country , European designs tended to reflect the broader artistic and design movements of each successive period . |
| 10 | The ‘ superstructure ’ of ideas and social institutions comes to reproduce the economic base : ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch ’ , Marx claimed , and ‘ the state is but the executive committee of the whole bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 11 | Yet at the same time , social policy and public attitudes combined to define the elderly as an increasingly useless group in society . |
| 12 | His remarks are devastating for emerging British riders striving to follow the golden trail blazed by legends like Colonel Harry Llewellyn who won Britain 's first equestrian gold with ‘ Foxhunter ’ at Helsinki in l952 . |
| 13 | Hills 's visit to Tokyo was described by observers as a precursor to a second round of talks known as the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) — a series of theoretical discussions designed to change the broad economic characteristics responsible for the USA 's huge trade deficit with Japan [ for September 1989 SII talks see p. 36892 ] . |
| 14 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 15 | The purpose is to evaluate different strategies designed to achieve the appropriate dietary change within the framework of existing food production , processing and marketing industries . |
| 16 | British proposals helped to shape the key provisions of the Treaty , including those strengthening the enforcement of Community law , defence , subsidiarity and law and order . |
| 17 | German builders tended to adopt the Gothic vault and the pointed arch to go with it , but little else . |
| 18 | Secondly , even if implemented , the question would arise as to whether adequate checks existed to prevent the reconstituted board from exercising its powers in an arbitrary fashion . |
| 19 | In Britain , by contrast , prevailing social values have conditioned the educational system to inculcate the belief that manufacturing is an inferior form of economic activity . |
| 20 | As we noted earlier , these capital inflows have financed the current account deficits . |
| 21 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 22 | Gradually , however , different shapes developed to suit the respective functions , and the visual appearance of the separate tool and weapon types suggests that different alloys were used for each . |
| 23 | Laughing Stock says that its Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers has achieved the highest sell-in for an audio book since the BBC 's Blackadder . |
| 24 | The German grain-growers had felt the transatlantic threat , but also wished to protect themselves against Russian grain , cheaply produced and easily distributed by rail . |
| 25 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
| 26 | However , interested parties have to fulfil the following prerequisites : |
| 27 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 28 | The New-Right Conservatives have challenged the educational establishment 's alleged over-liberalism which they claim has resulted in abandonment of the inculcation of traditional values by schools . |
| 29 | The foreign companies traded have the nominal values expressed in the native national currencies ; for example , the shares of Dutch chemicals company Akzo have a nominal value of 20 florins . |
| 30 | British Communists continued to blame the Social Democrats for Hitler 's victory while at the same time trying to organize common anti-Fascist activities between Communists and the Left of the Labour movement . |