Example sentences of "to operate [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly Wagland plays in the centre after injury while Greg Forster and David Minter have the chance to operate as the first string half back pairing . |
| 2 | Despite his best efforts to concentrate power effectively within his own hands , the emphasis on local authority implicit in a system purporting to operate through the traditional rulers of a primitive country , which possessed nothing approaching a unitary state co-extensive with its official boundaries , inevitably meant that power would drain away from the centre towards the local administrator , who alone could claim the special knowledge of local conditions , and opportunity for intimate supervision , on which Indirect Rule implicitly depended . |
| 3 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 4 | Only in Prussia and the eastern border districts was the emancipation not revoked for the simple reason that the Junkers needed the Jews to operate between the Prussian nobles and the German peasants , and as go-betweens for the Prussian Poles . |
| 5 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |
| 6 | In its report , the MMC ruled that the price-fixing cartel may be expected to operate against the public interest and should be blocked . |
| 7 | In particular , in a report upon collective discrimination it was shown that restrictive practices in the form of agreements between firms were widespread throughout industry , and generally tended to operate against the public interest . |
| 8 | Restrictive practices , in the form of formal agreements between firms , are presumed to operate against the public interest . |
| 9 | If , however , no undertakings can be negotiated and the MMC investigates the merger and finds that it operates or may be expected to operate against the public interest , the Secretary of State has power to order the parties not to proceed with a proposed merger or to order divestment by the purchasing company if the merger has been completed . |
| 10 | But more significant omissions relate to the removal of the qualification for granting warrants which were claimed to operate under the pre-statutory arrangements . |
| 11 | Firms could choose to operate under the new statute or retain their existing national corporate existence . |
| 12 | The company says every POSLogic terminal comes with full-featured POS and inventory control software designed to operate under the popular species of Unix . |
| 13 | Contingents of Saudi , North Yemeni , Sudanese and Emirates soldiers were to operate with the Syrian army to provide a semblance of pan-Arab unity , but it was Syrian armour and Syrian troops who would occupy the Lebanese capital . |
| 14 | The Sludge Disposal Vessel ‘ Gardyloo ’ built to operate from the new facility was in fact completed in August 1876 and immediately chartered for work on the Clyde while awaiting completion of the Seafield Works . |
| 15 | It is already library policy to operate from the two sites , London and Boston Spa , there is room for expansion at Boston Spa . |
| 16 | They are forced to operate in the pre-subjective domain of the specular imaginary , using a tactic of ‘ mimétisme ’ ( subversive mimesis ) that Irigaray both describes and illustrates in her writing . |
| 17 | The Supreme Soviet passed legislation on May 29 allowing wholly foreign-owned companies to operate in the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | A further 15 RBMK 1000 reactors continue to operate in the Soviet Union , despite appeals by Soviet scientists for them to be shut down to avert a similar disaster . |
| 19 | Learn to operate in the right mode . |
| 20 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 21 | The primary aim of the central bank is to work closely with the government and so to operate in the public interest . |
| 22 | Progress towards the phased return to civilian rule continued in 1990 with the registration in May of the two political parties which would be allowed to operate in the Third Republic , the lifting of the ban on party politics at local level in June , and the holding of local elections in December [ see p. 37908 ] . |
| 23 | A Fill option is marked and documented but certainly on the ZX Spectrum version tested it does n't appear to operate in the expected manner . |
| 24 | When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder . |
| 25 | This argument ignores a number of factors that will tend to operate in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | However , there are countervailing pressures since , at the same time , broader educational needs are pulling in exactly the opposite direction and require teachers to operate in the extended dimension in many ways . |
| 27 | The sub-contractor should be required to maintain safe working conditions on the site and to operate within the current safety legislation . |
| 28 | Office Management I provides the theoretical framework to allow students to respond to direction and to operate within the necessary constraints of the organisational environment . |
| 29 | Levein was attempting to operate within the new passback rule and head the ball behind him to Walker . |
| 30 | The directors are satisfied that the group will be able to operate within the new agreement 's provisions , and believe that Ratners will be able to negotiate further arrangements afterwards . |