Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 per cent threshold required to win representation . |
| 2 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 3 | The elaborate four-track layout completed in 1925 allowed cars to reverse without impeding the through cars . |
| 4 | When trainees are allowed to begin interviewing on their own under supervision they have already been accepted as CAB trainee advice workers , but in the GLCABS structure where candidates begin by observing the interviewing process they may not yet have formally passed the selection procedure . |
| 5 | In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled , with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed . |
| 6 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 7 | Age Concern England and Edward Arnold have jointly produced a book which brings together various authors experienced in addressing the particular needs of elders from ethnic minorities . |
| 8 | Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years . |
| 9 | With a General Election in the offing the Ballot provided a perfect framework for opposition parties to co-operate in setting the foreign policy agenda , without in any way compromising their own independence . |
| 10 | They therefore called on all parties to co-operate in allowing the safe passage of aid [ see p. 39225 for Somalia aid crisis ] . |
| 11 | But seeing her sister 's eyes turn from contemplating the deep indigo square of sky above the courtyard , and come to rest on her face in grief-stricken entreaty , she faltered , shrugged , and with impatient gestures , moved her over to make room on the bench where she dumped herself down . |
| 12 | Although there appear to be few operational savings planned from combining the two groups , three major benefits are expected to result from the merger : |
| 13 | Projected profiles consist of drawing the first section completely , while parallel sections behind the first are only drawn in so far as they project above earlier sections ( Fig. 9.17 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ The cops suspected of killing the two old guys have been suspended but not arrested , even though I 'm told there 's a suspicion that murder is involved . |
| 15 | Each week the hamsters were weighed under ketamine anaesthesia , and the tumour areas calculated by measuring the bipendicular diameters with Vernier callipers . |
| 16 | In Liverpool purity became a hot political issue , when purists succeeded in overturning the lax Tory council sympathetic to publicans and brewers . |
| 17 | If we concentrate only on Japan and the East Asian NICs , the choices , although somewhat inchoate between national strategies , do appear to have some common elements oriented towards re-casting the organizational and industrial relations arena in terms consonant with those which marked the 1980s revival of neo-conservative liberal analysis . |
| 18 | As stated earlier , the key to achieving serious progress in the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions lies in amending the existing compensation regime . |
| 19 | This would cover reporting on , inter alia , financial and other risk management controls , fraud and other illegal or irregular acts , basic ethical standards of corporate behaviour , information included in annual reports and public documents , and a summary of the principal assumptions and judgments the directors made in preparing the financial statements . |
| 20 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 21 | When there is a certain amount of risk involved in an event , most promoters opt for paying the minimum amount of guarantee possible against a larger percentage for the artist . |
| 22 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 23 | Experience on inservice courses and in initial training shows that the real advantages go beyond hearing the individual child read . |
| 24 | With a x 40 microscope , surface lines become visible — the lines caused by buffing the silvered copper surface to its state of high polish , in readiness for exposure — but the image does not break down into its constituent silver-mercury particles . |
| 25 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 26 | Because viruses replicate by hijacking the genetic machinery of host cells , it becomes extremely difficult to make effective anti-viral drugs . |
| 27 | Hezb-i-Islami had previously had the backing of Pakistan and had bases inside that country , but on Aug. 13 , in an unprecedented statement , Pakistan 's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had obliquely attacked Hekmatyar , stating that " Pakistan would not allow its territory to be used by unscrupulous elements engaged in undermining the territorial integrity of Afghanistan " . |
| 28 | In non-industrialized countries ( such as Spain and Russia ) its faith in an industrial working class competed on uneven terms with anarchist movements dedicated to destabilizing the old order by insurrection and establishing self-governing , single-class farming communities . |
| 29 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 30 | The changes that have occurred since 1979 in the pattern of long term care for older people in Leicestershire , above and beyond the aging of the general population , highlight some of the challenges that many local authorities face in implementing the final phase of the ‘ Caring for People ’ community care reforms . |