Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stravinsky ensures a happy yet solemn ending to The Firebird by using the old Easter hymn ‘ At the Gate ’ where the whole congregation rejoices at the renewal of life . |
| 2 | Whenever possible , students should have the opportunity of accompanying the occupational therapist or physiotherapist on a home visit . |
| 3 | Even in these days of permissiveness , it may be that the one party has not had , or has been denied , the opportunity of discovering the anatomical characteristics of the other . |
| 4 | Most riders dream of the opportunity of riding the perfect schoolmaster — one who will oblige when all the right buttons are pushed but wo n't worry when they 're not . |
| 5 | We have the opportunity of re-fighting the Crimean War , but as we never learn from history , we are doomed to repeat our mistakes , and |
| 6 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 7 | I 'm delighted to once again have the opportunity of following the honourable member for Southend in a debate about European matters . |
| 8 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 9 | Denying Gina the opportunity of making the quick contradiction which sprang to her lips , she addressed herself to Rune in her excellent , slightly accented English . |
| 10 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe , Nevada on Saturday but challenger Calvin Grove confounded the experts by lasting the full 12 rounds . |
| 11 | That , however , was due not just to the complexity of turning the Political Community treaty into reality , but to the problems that the Six were facing in getting the EDC off the ground . |
| 12 | Discusses the effects of social class on educational experience , and the complexity of measuring the relevant features of class in this context . |
| 13 | in addition , it is not clear that the re-ordering is in the direction of simplifying the causal structure of the story . |
| 14 | Barbara Jeffries had gone from managing the Manor to running the entire Studio Division . |
| 15 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 16 | Each escalation perpetuates the struggle by forcing the other side to match or overtake the enemy 's latest threat . |
| 17 | The directors are , firstly , made accountable to the shareholders by structuring the internal division of power within the company so that the shareholders have the power to appoint and dismiss directors and to supervise them whilst in office . |
| 18 | Practice partner uses set sentence ( at normal speed of course ) : ‘ What do people mean when they say … ? ’ and finishes the sentence by including the key word . |
| 19 | Allocating a disproportionate amount of resource on well-studied , high profile species is certainly easy , but may well prove to be inefficient when documenting the majority of life inhabiting our planet , and the attempts at dampening the current rates of extinction . |
| 20 | In particular , simplification of the design of such ladder filters through the technique of loading the last section with the characteristic impedance was discussed . |
| 21 | In the sonnets on the Rival Poet , for instance , whether the first or second person dominates , the technique of praising the other poet while denigrating oneself is clearly ironic , as J. W. Lever 's discussion has shown . |
| 22 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 23 | The technique of joining the pre-cast concrete boxes , known as ‘ match cast glued segmental construction ’ is at the forefront of tech has ever been tried in Ireland . |
| 24 | The technique for producing the Minoan frescoes varied . |
| 25 | One amendment suggested scrapping the council 's £6,250 donation to the cathedral organ restoration fund and spending the money on retraining the unemployed . |
| 26 | The paper hears that $130m in loans has to be repaid by the former MAI Basic Four Inc by mid-month and that the company is trying to raise the money by selling the profitable German subsidiary MAI Deutschland GmbH in Frankfurt . |
| 27 | There is something slithering along these shadowed walls and I can remember against my will the shock and the smell of seeing the steaming intestines pulled from a slaughtered pig , a poor animal with skin like a human being . |
| 28 | Increased public awareness of the dangers of exceeding the recommended dose of paracetamol might help , although this could paradoxically encourage more people to take an overdose . |
| 29 | He learned from Mrs Thatcher the dangers of igniting the Tory divide over Europe and so returned from Maastricht , opt-outs in hand , proclaiming victory . |
| 30 | Thomas Chawner , the Architect to the Land Revenue Department , pointed out the need for a fire-proof building , and the dangers of overloading the existing structures with books and printing presses . |