Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All of the parties are interested in making the Distributed Management Environment more compliant with the Object Management Group 's Corba Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification . |
| 32 | And erm I asked around to see if anyone else was interested in doing the same kind of thing . |
| 33 | However , a section of this particular audience was n't that interested in pondering the semiotic history of the movie alien . |
| 34 | Blake told him that his actions made no sense , and that if he had been genuinely interested in uncovering the mass murderer his methodology would have to change . |
| 35 | Curator of Asian Art , Yutaka Mino was instrumental in precipitating the Far East windfall . |
| 36 | The neighbourhood was instrumental in securing the Urban Development Action Grant both through its lobbying efforts and the prevailing conditions in the area . |
| 37 | In fact , evidence indicates that former principals of Sotheby 's acquired ownership interests in the treasure as early as 1980 — information Sotheby 's claims it first learned in this suit — and that these individuals were instrumental in securing the Lebanese export licenses for the treasure , which were allegedly forged ’ . |
| 38 | Ida Smedley was instrumental in advancing the professional status of university women . |
| 39 | He was instrumental in starting the Venereal Disease Reference Laboratory in 1924 . |
| 40 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 41 | He feels searing anger , not constructive , not realistic , not tolerant ; no way clear to seeing the other point of view . |
| 42 | Then work begins proper on re-fashioning the old site into an enterprise to greet the new century . |
| 43 | Management has not been insistent on displacing the permanent/temporary worker system with job seniority procedures ( i.e. first in/first out ) because of its own sense of paternalistic responsibility and because of the flexibility of operations afforded by the employment of temporary workers . |
| 44 | She was also cursing the stupidity that had made her accept — even by default — a dinner date with a man so obviously well-heeled without considering the depleted state of her wardrobe . |
| 45 | If the SNP are serious about co-operation they should show willing by investing the same energy they use to attack us to attack the Conservative government . ’ |
| 46 | The court found a soldier , Rogelio Moreno , guilty of firing the fatal shot , although he denied it . |
| 47 | Britain was later found guilty of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights and the ruling played a key role in forcing the Government to put MI5 on a statutory footing and create two tribunals to deal with complaints . |
| 48 | Reaffirming the 1990 decision , which found Koons guilty of pirating the original photograph , the appeals court criticised Koons and Sonnabend for assuming that their position in the art business and the high price of the works would shield them from any legal action . |
| 49 | Counsel submitted that two persons could not be found guilty of murdering the same person unless each was acting in concert with the other . |
| 50 | The 37-year-old father-of-three was jailed for 18 months after he was found guilty of cheating the Royal Bank of Scotland out of nearly £7,000 . |
| 51 | Sir Karl Popper , whose ‘ Conjectures and Refutations ’ is crucial for understanding the recent philosophy of science , points out that the mind can never be a passive register of experience . |
| 52 | Having said that , governments would be more responsible to Parliament ; Parliament would be stronger relative to the executive ; and party leaders could be " weaker " , but we should remember that there is nothing essentially democratic about reviving the parliamentary government of the nineteenth-century liberal constitution . |
| 53 | Others had done it , I knew , but I felt nervous about accomplishing the tricky manoeuvre . |
| 54 | Recognition of aperiodic soil/water/gravity events in a landsurface catenary concept makes this approach appropriate for studying the dynamic interaction between soil properties and landforms . |
| 55 | The Muddles have acquired a site of undeveloped agricultural land west of Birmingham which is well served by motorways and which they believe is perfect for building the ultimate racecourse . |
| 56 | But the ferocious beast really did look very serious about biting the little hedgehog . |
| 57 | If Labour is serious about challenging the dominant-party state , then it had better get serious about democracy now . ’ |
| 58 | The Scot had a chance to join Payne at five under , but was not too dismayed after bogeying the final hole . |
| 59 | He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information . |
| 60 | Then , very slowly , fearful of making the slightest movement that might start the surface on an avalanche course and himself down the incline , he stretched out his arm towards Sheila . |