Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 2 | Karmal was subsequently replaced as party leader and president by Najibullah , but there was little progress in establishing the broadly-based ‘ government of national reconciliation ’ which was his declared objective . |
| 3 | Go in the microwave that 's all , I ai n't got much money at all , I did n't have that much left , I bought mum 's cigs and that bit of shopping the other day and that was the end of that we will survive . |
| 4 | The smaller Protestant states of northern Europe — Brandenburg-Prussia , Sweden , Denmark — which were all to varying extents anxious to conciliate Russia , had little hesitation in recognising the new title . |
| 5 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 6 | They broke that contract by taking the later ( and much larger ) claim into account . |
| 7 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 8 | Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly . |
| 9 | Tricon Foodservice Consultants has been brought in to give advice , but the Cassons have had some difficulty in accepting the drastic measures needed to ensure survival . |
| 10 | However , even with this distinction , there is some difficulty in capturing the imperatival force of the ‘ should ’ in an ethical system in which intrinsic value is the only basic ethical concept . |
| 11 | These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops . |
| 12 | Method B corrects for this overestimate by using the average age at which women give birth , which in England and Wales between 1950 and 1990 was 27.1 years . |
| 13 | We have been obliged to meet this difficulty by treating the lower prizes as marks of distinction for merit rather than as indicating special selection of the design as fitted for separate construction . |
| 14 | This difficulty in distinguishing the cognitive style of the highly creative from that of the psychotic has also often been noted by others . |
| 15 | Will he therefore take this opportunity of welcoming the positive statement recently made by Mr. Shimon Peres , the leader of the Israeli Labour party , that if elected in June he would put a freeze on the settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 16 | In conclusion , may I take this opportunity of thanking the Chief Executive and Directors of Plantsbrook Group , the National Secretary , the Officers , Administration Secretary and the Staff at the National Office and , last but not least , my colleagues at work for all their support during the past twelve months . |
| 17 | His actions then ( in this case in calling the twelve ) did not simply relate to his immediate Jewish context , but are to be seen as a considered action undertaken in relation to his having founded the church . |
| 18 | Trauma at birth may also play some part in forming the newborn infant 's predisposition to develop the disorder . |
| 19 | Another case of finding the bloody things . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the Macnow-inspired video did a sufficiently good job of muddying the waters to give the Japanese some hope of diverting the main thrust of the US/New Zealand resolution . |
| 21 | The ‘ Intercom Quartet ’ represents an attempt to move in this direction by exploring the cognitive and cultural consequences of contemporary developments in technology . |
| 22 | It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils . |
| 23 | The house , Wychwood , from which I like to think that Eliot derived the name in The Family Reunion , was easily within walking distance ; but we felt some responsibility for getting the great man from London without subjecting him to too much fatigue ; and if my brother reached home by a circuitous route , it was partly in order to show off the beauty of the place . |
| 24 | As Jonathan Culler points out , the pun is to the synchronic dimension of language what etymology is to the diachronic dimension ( 1988:2 ) , and Julia plays on this parallel by confusing the two . |
| 25 | 10 For periods of absence , the teacher should make some provision for informing the substitute teacher where lesson plans , etc are kept . |
| 26 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 27 | In our view , particularly because of the extravagant results that have arisen in some cases by applying the literal rule , there can be no doubt that in the modern context the object and intent rule is much fairer . |
| 28 | There is some advantage in treating the whole embedded overflow area as a single large blocked record , and manufacturers ' software often does transfer the whole track into main storage when an addition is to be made ; this allows for the addition itself , creation of link fields , changes of index , etc . |
| 29 | I have some hesitation about accepting the second leg of the ratio decidendi in the circumstances but that is certainly the way in which Fox L.J . |
| 30 | But in any event , in the way shown above , this concentration on squeezing the largest possible instalment payments into the confines of a weekly budget based on weekly pay-packets leaves the deep pitfall that people then have no leeway to cope with unexpected or higher-than-usual expenses which crop up 12m . |