Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the opportunity exists to reassess the rational or political approaches to resource management practice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Until 13 October visitors will have the opportunity to get to know the Austrian painter Alois Riedl as a draughtsman . |
| 4 | The majority preferred to believe the picturesque stories passed down by parents and grandparents , which were , of course , accepted as the gospel truth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Working on corpora of North American conversational data , they proceed very much from the bottom-up trying to establish the smallest units first . |
| 8 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 9 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 10 | The executive responsible is a member of the Board assigned to ensure the successful progress and completion of the project . |
| 11 | The money went to found the Scottish International Educational Trust , a fund based in Edinburgh which is meant to ‘ benefit Scotland ’ . |
| 12 | Three quarters of the money goes to maintain the national organisation and to provide central services for Bureaux . |
| 13 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 14 | The computer appears to dominate the whole scene to the detriment of constructive pupil activity- ( a common danger ) . |
| 15 | The salesman tries to shape the perceptual bubble . |
| 16 | Yanto shouted , as the gang began to slap the heavy deal planks into slings . |
| 17 | Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA . |
| 18 | In the unlikely event that any criminal charges are brought against a head of department in connection with safety duties the University undertakes to meet the reasonable cost of his defence . |
| 19 | In this way we will provide the user pull to accelerate the integrated application , exploitation and competitive weapon phases in IT development — without funding ‘ near market ’ activity nor distorting the market by funding products . |
| 20 | The user has to judge the exact moment to stop . |
| 21 | If the West wants to appreciate the flawless , fastidiously formal pleasures of this kora playing from Mali , it 'll have to unlearn its current ideas about ethnic or ‘ world ’ music . |
| 22 | The luck began to run the other way and we made a bit of a fortune that six months . |
| 23 | Stretch marks are a normal reaction to the skin stretching to accommodate the growing baby , and fade away in time . |
| 24 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
| 25 | Lord Kaldor , for example , has argued that the money supply is passively adjusted to the level required to accommodate the current level of economic activity . |
| 26 | The course aims to develop the technical knowledge and ability to make decisions about appropriate methods and strategies for livestock development . |
| 27 | The Association continues to offer the following services : |
| 28 | Prime minister Georges Pompidou said that ‘ groups of enragés [ roughly ‘ rabid extremists ’ — the term used to describe the extreme left in the French revolution of 1789 ] are encouraging the spread of disorder with the aim of destroying society … ’ . |
| 29 | One of the earlier manifestations of pressurisation hazards was the Comet 1 accident near Rome in 1954 when a fatigue crack was found to have propagated from a cut-out in the top of the fuselage designed to accommodate the automatic direction finder aerial system . |
| 30 | Marketers from all branches of the industry gathered to hear the 1992 Awards for Marketing , sponsored by Marketing Week , the Marketing Society and the ITV companies . |