Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't have thought there was anyone left out there dim enough to still want to embrace the seedy ‘ glamour ’ of the Keef Richards ‘ elegantly wasted ’ image . |
| 2 | It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth . |
| 3 | A new role was then established , that of coordinator , which bypassed the head and was intended to carry the new vision of good practice directly from Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) to the classroom . |
| 4 | The doctor asked to see the fallen member . |
| 5 | Thus scientists in many fields tend to emphasise the practical pay-off of their research . |
| 6 | IF YOU are a fan of collectables , you wo n't want to miss the new ‘ on-pack ’ offer from Carnation Evaporated Milk . |
| 7 | IF YOU are a fan of collectables , you wo n't want to miss the new ‘ on-pack ’ offer from Carnation Evaporated Milk . |
| 8 | When YOU go there you wo n't want to miss the world-famous Pleasure Beach amusement park which teems with fun and excitement for everyone . |
| 9 | It was considered that to focus on penetration would be to continue to emphasise the sexual as against the violent aspects of the offence . |
| 10 | Despite this major problem , banks must endeavour to monitor the external debt position of countries . |
| 11 | The intention was always to develop the College as a learning community , which deliberately sought to emphasise the common experiences of working-class people through the full use of the residential setting by |
| 12 | Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ . |
| 13 | High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux . |
| 14 | At the Second Congress of the RSDWP those who opposed Lenin — the Mensheviks — sought to dilute the revolutionary purity of the party and weaken its discipline . |
| 15 | We did not achieve that , but the Regional Council has undertaken to carry the full costs itself . |
| 16 | The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer . |
| 17 | Nkrumah was undecided ; was he really intended to promote the political interests of the intelligentsia ? |
| 18 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 19 | The homoeopath was happy to allow Owen to continue enjoying the aromatic baths and massage , but was less concerned about diet — some homoeopaths do not advocate dietary reform . |
| 20 | However , exports to non-E.E.C. countries in their currencies will still be subject to fluctuating exchange rates and Northern Ireland exporters will need to continue using the various mechanisms available to them to minimise exchange risks . |
| 21 | As long as man eats unhealthy food ( the product of unhealthy soil ) , even in the right proportions , the medical profession will perforce have to continue to treat the inevitable results . |
| 22 | Now by impartment , we mean , we mean , enabling , we mean helping the voluntary sector to be more ef effective and efficient in the use of its scarce resources . |
| 23 | Within lesson structures of this kind , teachers do not , in fact , orientate themselves so much to the needs of individual students , but tend to treat the whole class as a kind of ‘ collective student ’ . |
| 24 | In view of the commitment expressed by the US President , George Bush , to withdraw all US invasion forces from Panama by the end of February 1990 [ see p. 37177 ] , García agreed to attend the international drugs summit in Cartagena ( Colombia ) on Feb. 15 [ for which see pp. 37243-44 ] . |
| 25 | The feast committee agreed to attend the fair during this time . |
| 26 | In the other three novels frothy dialogue and sparkling wit tend to overshadow the deeper philosophical issues at stake . |
| 27 | Family routines are adjusted to accommodate the worsening disease . |
| 28 | Now all is quite clear in the consultations , certainly the one we have with the , the heads , whilst that they did n't want to continue the previous policy of expanding their tradition by increasing class sizes . |
| 29 | The other clear major factor was that a result of public consultation er and clearly this was an important consideration when members came to choose the route , that seventy percent of those consulted favoured the outer northern route , the blue route . |
| 30 | Ideally a software interface will exist to connect the cartographic , tabular and graphical output from a GIS and the report-generation capabilities of a high-quality word-processor , thus allowing the results provided by the GIS to be incorporated directly into a document . |