Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 32 | Even before the slide forward has come to a stop , pull your rear guard hand back slightly in order to augment the snap punch . |
| 33 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 34 | The other was Vasiliki ware ; this marked the end of the pattern burnish technique and the beginning of a new finish , a reddish-brown wash deliberately applied unevenly in order to simulate the mottled texture of the stone vases that were at that time so fashionable in eastern Crete ( Figure 32C ) . |
| 35 | The brain had enlarged later in order to exploit the tool-making capacities of hands that were now freed from the task of locomotion . |
| 36 | Or words to that effect , right , and I realize that you have to think , think carefully in order to make the right choice , because it 's got ta be right for you and it 's also got ta be right for the property , alright ? |
| 37 | The status of any newly referenced SPRs will be updated automatically by LIFESPAN to reflect the new relationship . |
| 38 | It is a measure of the tension and complexities of our contemporary society that the police have gradually been transformed from a universal corpus of ordinary police officers performing all manner of general duties , including public order maintenance , to one which now in part approaches the quasi-military-order police model of continental Europe and elsewhere . |
| 39 | Experiments are now in progress to isolate the trans-acting factors described in this report and to further analyse the nature of its interactions with the upstream RARE-binding factors . |
| 40 | Willie John McBride 's side was the most successful touring side to leave these islands , and a big drive is now in progress to bring the 35-man party back together again . |
| 41 | Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a lavish scale . |
| 42 | Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a lavish scale . |
| 43 | A policy objective was identified to reduce the crude birth rate in ten years substantially in order to spread the small family norm . |
| 44 | The commission will not be responsible for promoting a network : the extent to which companies form a network , particularly one that as at present subsidises the smaller contractors , is a matter for them . |
| 45 | The very fact that two of the Big Six European companies were even considering merging indicates the growing emphasis on scale in the car industry , and highlights the difficulties that a company such as Rover faces in the world market . |
| 46 | Other birds particularly under threat include the red kite , white-tailed eagle , golden eagle and hen harrier . |
| 47 | Today in order to meet the burgeoning demand for more and more creamy pints of Guinness , St. James 's Gate , through the recent investment of IR£200 million , has become one of the world 's most technologically advanced breweries , having the flexibility to brew virtually anything to the highest international standards . |
| 48 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 49 | The curia , for its part , saw obvious advantages in the possibility of bestowing a crown on Johannitsa and extending its influence towards the Eastern Church at Constantinople , possibly even in time bringing the Byzantine Church under the papacy . |
| 50 | There could have been a greater degree of specialization , but this has been avoided here in order to emphasise the collaborative nature of many of the specialisms to be found in the production function . |
| 51 | Obviously a given thickness of sediment could not simply by weight produce the same amount of subsidence of a much denser crust . |
| 52 | The small war in Spain had to be fought , they argued , precisely in order to check the fascist advance before Hitler felt strong enough to launch the big war . |
| 53 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 54 | Now , however , consider what happens if we take pragmatics to be the study of the contribution of context to language understanding : suppose normally an aunt gives her nephew T , but on an occasion switches to V , then in order to predict the intended ironic or angry meaning , a pragmatic theory must have available the detailed recipe for usage that tells us that V is not the normal usage , and thus not to be taken at face value . |
| 55 | ‘ Ethical ’ is to be preferred to ‘ moral ’ because to speak of ‘ moral positivism ’ implies that the role of law is simply to apply the moral rules of society , whereas the theory is that law deals with conflict in a way which at least in part transcends the moral disagreements endemic in societies of men or of nations . |
| 56 | Both of the patients who were diagnosed late in life had the abnormal antibodies in their blood for several years before the condition became obvious . |
| 57 | are not able to specify how the reminder treatment produces its effect but they are quite at liberty to use the unexplained phenomenon to make their central point — that the deficit in performance see in the subjects given pre-exposure stems from a failure of retrieval rather than a failure of initial acquisition . |
| 58 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 59 | Deputy Prime Minister Zivko Pregl said on Jan. 21 that the outcome of the congress would not affect the government 's plans to press ahead with legislation to change the federal Constitution and create the conditions for a multiparty system , and he observed that the LCY in future " will be relevant to the extent that it succeeds in elections which will be direct and secret " . |
| 60 | Other groups such as the Essene sect had withdrawn completely from society to await the eschatological consummation of the Kingdom . |