Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , some attempts to adapt the National Curriculum to meet the needs of children who experience difficulties in learning render the system even more rigid . |
| 2 | Fourth , I will describe how the organisation of the curriculum into arbitrary hierarchies is compounded by some attempts to make the National Curriculum accessible to all pupils . |
| 3 | Some Guardians pursued the new policy more vigorously than others . |
| 4 | In 1870 the PLB had also , rather grudgingly , allowed some Guardians to adopt the Scottish practice of ‘ boarding out ’ ( fostering , in modern terms ) pauper children with working-class families , sometimes their own relatives . |
| 5 | In the USA , some institutions use the opposite meanings , vide Boyer , and Horn , whereas others seem to use the terms interchangeably . |
| 6 | Some institutions incorporate the Legal Practice Course into the degree — information about these is available from the Law Society . |
| 7 | Some Acts require the local authorities to submit schemes and plans for approval by the central department in order to carry out their powers and duties . |
| 8 | Some artists prefer the springy sensitivity of an open canvas whilst others prefer the hardness or smoothness of a board . |
| 9 | Some artists prefer the springy sensitivity of an open canvas whilst others prefer the hardness or smoothness of a board . |
| 10 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 11 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 12 | This flexibility extends to the choice of degree and it is possible in some cases to delay the final decision until the end of the third year . |
| 13 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 14 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 15 | It may be necessary in some cases to clean the protective quartz sleeve around the U/V/ light . |
| 16 | The intended victim of sorcery could take counter-measures by appealing to a supernatural being , and these counter-measures could in some cases transfer the intended harm to the person who had initiated it . |
| 17 | In practice the rockpooler should ensure his arrival about four hours after high spring water , to give him approximately two hours twelve and one half minutes to follow the ebbing tide out before it turns . |
| 18 | The mechanism for this is not clear and leads some researchers to accept the physiological view that delayed maturation or physical differences ( such as reduced functional bladder capacity ) may be the cause of the problem ( Zaleski et al . |
| 19 | Having found a comfortable Gasthof in the suburb of Spitalhof , I passed a few hours wandering the old town . |
| 20 | Some authorities give the misleading impression that they alone have the absolute right to deliver certain services to the public . |
| 21 | Casual encounters on the beat are kept to a minimum by the public , primarily , the police claim , as a result of intimidation , and constables get few opportunities to display the interactive skills that might foster good community relations , although the rare occasions when this happens are seized upon by the men and recalled with pleasure thereafter . |
| 22 | Some schools adopted the imagined Plowden ideal enthusiastically , sometimes , it must be said , without thinking through the implications of the changes which they introduced . |
| 23 | Noble had returned in 1894 from Liverpool to London and , after some months attending the fashionable Bloomsbury Square chapel where Stopford Brooke preached to a large intellectual gathering , had decided to join the Unitarian chapel close to their new suburban home at 6 Patten Road , Wandsworth Common . |
| 24 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 25 | Those last few words describe the present position . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 27 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 28 | Rather than attempt to make the painful transition to a new reality where those who were yesterday 's ‘ enemy ’ today become the ‘ friend ’ , some guards preferred the strange safety of death . |
| 29 | Few clients knew the probable losses they were letting themselves in for , were they to continue trading . |
| 30 | As we have already seen , in Tasks 41 and 43 , some books reverse the traditional order of text first then questions , to one of questions first then text . |