Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , he formulates a hypothetical set of computational constraints which he claims will both assess the degree of match between two views so as to choose the better one , and typically force a 3-D interpretation which is both unique and veridical . |
| 2 | Kinnock dismissed the proposed Charter on July 23 as " an election gimmick " designed to boost the Conservatives ' electoral ratings rather than tackle the relevant issues , and said that it was an implicit admission that the government had allowed the quality of public services to decline during its years in office . |
| 3 | Suppressing emotions Rather than letting the emotional blockages out , the person demands logic , rationality ( ‘ Let's not get emotional' or ‘ Please , let's act like adults ’ ) . |
| 4 | In view of the recent ’ Dispatches ’ television programme , has the Minister conducted an inquiry into how the police , Customs and Excise and the security services work together and how they share information with other countries so as to reduce the hard drugs problem that each and every hon. Member sees weekly in his or her constituency ? |
| 5 | These are conceptualized as unified , non-contradictory , omniscient ‘ actors ’ , united by the common objective of dividing the working class along racial lines so as to facilitate the economic exploitation of both sections of the class . |
| 6 | In setting up the scheme , care must be taken to judge the range and slopes of the lines so as to maintain the desired balance in the minds of the contractor 's engineers . |
| 7 | They 've scoured their record collections for their favourite chic embellishments so as to enhance the luxury commodity aura of their product . |
| 8 | For the first time in their history the Tuareg — the largest tribe of Nomads in the Sahara Desert — recently delayed their annual migration for 10 days so as to catch the final episode of Dallas |
| 9 | But more significantly , it would mean a reduction in investment performance as more funds were switched into gilts and fixed interest stocks so as to meet the statutory solvency requirements . |
| 10 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 11 | This pronouncement on social policy upheld the institution of private property , but acknowledged that limitations might rightly be laid upon its rights so as to protect the poor and weak . |
| 12 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 13 | All three republics , for instance , had already reformulated Article 6 of their own constitutions so as to end the communist political monopoly . |
| 14 | Hickson take pride in their ability to solve technical problems quickly while maintaining the highest safety standards . |
| 15 | But following this change in tax credits on dividends some employer contribution holidays will have to stop , while other less well-padded schemes may be forced to invest more in secure vehicles such as bonds and gilts rather than maintain the heavy weighting towards equities typical of most funds at present . |
| 16 | The result was the rationalisation of the industrial structure , which Professor G.C. Allen has summed up : ‘ The chief effect of government intervention between the wars was to defend the failures rather than to encourage the enterprising ’ . |
| 17 | Britain , the Soviet Union and China could provide supervisors and advisers so as to reduce the American composition of the governing commission . |
| 18 | The superior results of these headings more than justify the extra time i involved in making them . |
| 19 | On the other hand , species like long-eared owls have different prey size spectra even when occupying the same geographical regions as barn owls or tawny owls . |
| 20 | Confronted with the entrance of significant new competitors , the secular decline and progressive decomposition of mass demand , innovative manufacturers are experimenting with methods of increasing productive flexibility , reducing the total cost of producing an extended and shifting product range for particular market niches rather than minimizing the average output cost of a narrow range of standardized commodities ( Sabel , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | Embarrassed bank officials agreed not to call in police rather than lose the entire haul and face bad publicity . |
| 22 | Even a prescription of the wrong remedy can sometimes affect the picture of symptoms so as to make the right remedy more obvious and easily discerned . |
| 23 | It is common ground that the concessionary fees more than covered the additional cost to the school of educating the taxpayers ' children . |
| 24 | This means that farmers in these dales may opt to be paid a certain amount per hectare by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food to manage their lands so as to ensure the traditional landscape features of stone buildings , field walls and flower-rich meadows for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 25 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 26 | Governments had to be persuaded that they were in a position to run their eyes down a list of options so as to gauge the inflationary consequences of a particular package of demand management policies . |
| 27 | Tenth-century kings tried to achieve a balance between secular and ecclesiastical power in the localities rather than to crush the former ; this was demonstrably the aim of Otto I and Otto II when disposing of the tributes exacted from the Slav peoples . |
| 28 | Even if these benefits take the form of cash realised by the disposal of shares , the extent of the benefit will correlate with the increased value of Newco 's shares so as to achieve the desired incentive effect . |