Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his introductory note Gavrilov admits to finding the four Ballades among the most problematical of all Chopin 's works to interpret — in terms of reconciling swift-changing moods with architectural shape . |
| 2 | Almost immediately , Walker responded by withdrawing the ineffective Darren Beckford for Chris Sutton , Beckford registering his disappointment by tearing off his shirt and disappearing straight down the tunnel . |
| 3 | Whereas many otherwise ‘ progressive ’ disciples of Rousseau believed in controlling the entire environment of the child and programming its mind with carefully selected sense impressions , Wordsworth and Dorothy believed in complete freedom : ‘ Till a child is four years old he needs no other companions than the flowers , the grass , the cattle , the sheep that scamper away from him , when he makes a vain unexpecting chase after them , the pebbles upon the road etc . |
| 4 | This month Jane looks at re-training the older horse and over the next few issues she will be giving invaluable advice on overcoming the most common problems . |
| 5 | If Lithuania succeeds in leaving the Soviet Union , Kaliningrad would become an enclave . |
| 6 | The levies cheered , and the Normans returned to watching the Irish Sea with one eye and the goings-on in England with the other . |
| 7 | Yeltsin announced that he would mediate in talks between the two sides over Dnestr 's future , and both presidents appealed to Ukraine to co-operate in allowing the Russian troop withdrawals from Moldova through its territory . |
| 8 | What part precisely did Leonardo play in developing the human imagination ? |
| 9 | Sir Leon ends by describing the new procedures as ‘ imperative in order to increase public confidence in the system of selected distribution ’ . |
| 10 | McVeighty gambled on going the complete four laps on one tankful of petrol , while Bell made one pit stop . |
| 11 | UN-sponsored talks involving 45 cocoa producing and consumer nations ended inconclusively on Nov. 13 after two weeks of protracted negotiations in Geneva aimed at replacing the 1986 cocoa agreement due to expire in September 1993 . |
| 12 | TALKS between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic aimed at settling the so-called dirty tricks affair last night looked likely to continue into a fourth day . |
| 13 | The Input Shoctector works by monitoring the current flowing in the ‘ live ’ and ‘ neutral ’ wires , and is activated by any leakage of current to earth — perhaps through you ! |
| 14 | As has been noted , the debate between Hart and Devlin was in part stimulated by the publication of the Wolfenden Report , and Hart begins by noting the striking similarity between J.S. Mill 's argument outlined above and the position adopted by the Wolfenden Committee in s.13 of their Report : |
| 15 | Before a questioning audience Mr Murray began by explaining the main features of the new corporate identity and outlined the way it would be introduced to its public . |
| 16 | After a few moments search Thiercelin succeeded in tracing the relevant issue and spread the broadsheet on the table , translating hesitantly into French for the benefit of his colleague . |
| 17 | Chief Inspector Buchanan walked in wearing the same grey suit followed by the wooden-faced Sergeant Warden . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom started by describing the historical background to the Common Fisheries Policy and set out the measures taken by the United Kingdom since 1983 to tackle the registration of Spanish fishing boats in the British register . |
| 19 | Blanche felt like doing the same . |
| 20 | While Mrs Weller confesses to liking the young rebel , he was unpopular with most of the teachers . |
| 21 | Mr MacSharry and Commission President Jacques Delors have been at daggers drawn for weeks over tactics in the GATT talks with the Americans with Mr Delors accused of favouring the powerful French farm lobby . |
| 22 | But if Mosley 's practical search for radical economic policies was to provide a meaningful response to solve the problems of inter-war Britain , both Chesterton and Williamson survived by developing the higher metaphysical values derived from aesthetic appreciation of literature . |
| 23 | In Britain , the ‘ Darwinians ’ led by Huxley succeeded in dominating the scientific community of the late 1860s and 1870s , although opposition grew in later decades . |
| 24 | On April 2 hundreds of protesters in Tripoli succeeded in entering the Venezuelan embassy and burned down part of it ( the Venezuelan permanent representative at the UN , Diego Arria , having been president of the Security Council for the month of March ) . |
| 25 | It was by actively promoting such reforms that the Labour Party in West Ham succeeded in capturing the female vote when it was first exercised . |
| 26 | In 1991 Mr Waugh succeeded in persuading the Scottish Office to relax funding controls so that the project could be speeded up . |
| 27 | Naturally Marx started by explaining the historical mechanism and inner working of the social system which dominated the condition of the working class at the time when he wrote on capitalism . |
| 28 | Later , chairman Colin Henderson talked of developing the Ayresome Park fortress where the Boro lost just two League games this season . |
| 29 | Jaq thrived at acquiring the necessary skills ; yet already it was plain that he would never be a dogmatist , nor a flamboyant practitioner of the art of suppression . |
| 30 | You are perhaps aware ’ , wrote Gould grandly to William Swainson in January 1837 , ‘ that I have two of Mrs Goulds ’ brothers in Australia engaged in collecting the natural product of that fine country , nearly the whole of which are consigned to myself and that consequently I possess perhaps greater facilities than most persons for the production of a work of this description . |