Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 2 | When Cripps had abandoned the Unity Campaign to support the Labour Party 's Immediate Programme his action had been fully endorsed by the Communist Party . |
| 3 | If any question arises as to this , the defence is entitled , and is under a duty , to invite the trial judge to exercise the discretionary power given to him by section 17 of the Evidence Act , which corresponds exactly to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ( 28 & 29 Vict. c. 18 ) and provides : |
| 4 | And it has given the board opportunity to take the necessary action . |
| 5 | Loft : this is the ability of the filling to expand within the shell construction to trap the required still air to keep you warm and cosy . |
| 6 | The term ‘ loft ’ is used to describe the ability of the filling to expand within the shell construction to produce the required layer of still air . |
| 7 | The second is to give the courts power to sentence the serious cases in the way that they deserve . |
| 8 | However , should individual lexicographers habitually use excessive memory , it is possible for the Computer Group to restrict the virtual memory they are allocated . |
| 9 | The Edinburgh Partnership will present the case for the Dean Centre to become the new Gallery for Scottish Art on Tuesday , July 20 at 11.30 am . |
| 10 | David Young , the Lions prop , has recovered from his hamstring strain in time to be included in the Cardiff side to tackle the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 11 | He did not label the boxes to go to particular destinations but left it to the rail company to allot the appropriate number of boxes to the various destinations . |
| 12 | The company bought a six-page advertisement in The Times newspaper to announce the new factory . |
| 13 | The rights issue proceeds will be injected into the ICI rump to allow the former parent to pay down debt . |
| 14 | There must , for example , have been an industry in the Mesara Plain to supply the large numbers of votive figurines that are found in the tombs of that region . |
| 15 | We in the West try to keep the spiritual and the material together and our minds are confused and jumbled ; the mundane distracting us from the spiritual , and the spiritual distracting us from the mundane . |
| 16 | When completed use the tracing paper to transfer the same drawing onto the second support . |
| 17 | Zafonic , who shattered the course record to win the 2,000 Guineas on fast ground , is not at his best on soft . |
| 18 | Christmas was coming and Ellen took a part-time job in the college office to meet the extra costs of the season , and there met Nerina 's mother , a pleasant woman wearing a serviceable sari and black lace-up shoes . |
| 19 | Wilson and Jones used preparations of half-methylated DNA to test the effects of a battery of carcinogens on the ability of the maintenance methylase to methylate the unmethylated strand . |
| 20 | Roeg uses Mick Jagger as the rock star to confront the ambivalent images and grotesque fascinations that flared around The Rolling Stones when their '60s dream ended in death , despair and Altamont . |
| 21 | Hence , one civil servant , Sir Robin Butler , is included in the list because he has survived three former Prime Ministers and has the strength and the staying power to outlast the present incumbent . |
| 22 | The information carried by an amplitude-modulated signal ( see section 5.9 ) is recovered by rectifying it and filtering out the carrier wave to leave the amplitude-modulating wave . |
| 23 | Arrighi and Saul more specifically consider the labour aristocracy to comprise the skilled technicians in large factories and sub-elite of clerks and teachers ( Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 24 | And since , as we shall see , reported earnings form the basis of share evaluation , such differences make it extremely difficult for the investment analyst to estimate the fair price of shares . |
| 25 | Work started on the resurvey of the Newbiggin ( 10 ) 1:50 000 sheet as the first phase of the Tyne-Alston project to revise the geological map of the Northumberland Basin . |
| 26 | One final nail in the coffin may be the accelerating rate of rural petrol station closures since this would further encourage the car owner to leave the local village for petrol and other services ( Dean , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | Because the salmon live in the icy waters of Alaska then migrate to the Pacific , where they live a wild and natural existence , many valuable nutrients are retained in the canning process to produce the perfect ingredient to include in a weight-reducing diet . |
| 28 | These sectors had long been in decline — reflecting the decline of the UK as a world economic power — so the people of these regions did not have the buying power to attract the new consumer goods industries . |
| 29 | An indication of the ability of the layers above and below the injection point to contain the vertical fracture can be obtained by studying the closure stress gradients in a vertical sequence . |
| 30 | A special casting factory was built at Wolff Road in the harbour estate to make the concrete box units which link together to make the carriageway . |