Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The activities include befriending the elderly or taking them on day trips , re-creating trails and footpaths in National parks , organizing and running barge holidays for mentally handicapped children , and ‘ greening ’ inner cities by developing disused allotments . |
| 2 | Without deriving a full root definition , modelling the activities required to undertake a particular process such as project planning , performing a task or set of tasks , developing ideas about new functions , and so on . |
| 3 | It is clear , furthermore , that Categories 1 and 2 do not impose an evidential burden on the defendant as far as the consent issue is concerned , for generally speaking , where the defence seeks to do no more than deny the prosecution 's assertion , it is entitled to have its claims placed before the jury . |
| 4 | Down in the basement , what is effectively a small warehouse holds and dispatches all RSGB publications and other radio books purchased by mail order , with the income earned providing a useful supplement to the Society 's funds . |
| 5 | Goremykin , the premier had become a mere figurehead in charge of no major department , and individual ministers reverted to reporting independently and in haphazard fashion to the Tsar . |
| 6 | Nowadays this is made easier by the disciplines needed to keep a computer-based system operating tidily . |
| 7 | The first category includes those small towns where the defences appear to rationalize an extensive urban scatter and to enclose a suitable urban core . |
| 8 | We are not opening in Paris solely to take advantage of the end of trading restrictions within the EC in 1993 , but because the opportunity arose to obtain a suitable area of the Hotel Bristol with our own street window and entrance . |
| 9 | Partnerships , politically non-aligned bodies , have the opportunity to begin to re-establish a proper sense of balance . |
| 10 | The vote , when it came , broke five days of deadlock for a post that will give Yeltsin no executive powers , but huge authority and the opportunity to help set a new political agenda for the Russian parliament . |
| 11 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 12 | Secondly , the opportunity exists to reassess the rational or political approaches to resource management practice . |
| 13 | In addition , over 11,000 have the opportunity to learn to play an orchestral instrument |
| 14 | One minute , your students are ploughing through a set of grammar exercises with apparent ease ; the next , when the opportunity arises to use the same language in a real context , dreadful mistakes occur . |
| 15 | I think erm it 's interesting erm to listen to desert island discs the last two weeks that the luxury item chosen has been a piano and people are saying that they would like very often , there are a lot of people who 'd like the opportunity to have learnt a musical instrument . |
| 16 | They know about it , not just in rhetoric but in reality , and they have the opportunity to get to know a wider range of young people than parents or any other professional group . |
| 17 | Until 13 October visitors will have the opportunity to get to know the Austrian painter Alois Riedl as a draughtsman . |
| 18 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 19 | The majority preferred to believe the picturesque stories passed down by parents and grandparents , which were , of course , accepted as the gospel truth . |
| 20 | From then on , ANDES has worked with the campesino , worker , student and shanty-town sectors in the BPR to help create the mass political opposition which now confronts the regime . |
| 21 | With gliders which have a front wheel or main skid , a main wheel just behind the c.g. and a tail-wheel or skid like the K13 , Grob 103 , ASK21 , Puchazc , Schweitzer 233 and most of the older single seaters , it may be necessary to ease back a little during the take-off run to raise the front wheel or skid . |
| 22 | To celebrate the theme of the festival the Zap has invited a wide range of artists to develop performances around their sense of taboo . |
| 23 | While the ombudsman has revealed the occasional bureaucratic horror story , he or she lacks some of the powers of his or her opposite number in other systems . |
| 24 | Recently the RSPCA helped to fund a behavioural enrichment study at Regent 's Park which aims to improve the lot of captive animals by diminishing their stereotypical and aberrant behaviour patterns , and providing more stimulating and natural surroundings for the animals and a better educational experience for the public . |
| 25 | Thus in Jaca there were allotments for the poor labourers and no agrarian destitute class ; around Saragossa the labourers had enforced a customary eight-hour day and worked in their free hours on their own plots ; but on the great estates of dry Aragon labour conditions could only be matched in Andalusia . |
| 26 | Yesterday Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Prince had accepted a long-standing invitation to address the annual conference of the Scottish Crofters Union which has almost 2,000 members in the Western Isles . |
| 27 | Russian illwill grew when the Prince wanted to marry a Prussian princess , a granddaughter of the kaiser . |
| 28 | On the other hand , lifting a genuine wineglass a few feet in the air by sheer mental energy required several hours of systematic preparation if the wizard wished to prevent the simple principle of leverage flicking his brain out through his ears . |
| 29 | Now the Pentagon has begun a serious attempt to find out what the future shape of American defence should be , and whether the new shape will in fact save money . |
| 30 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |