Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your articles bring alive the voices of our Compañeros in Chile . |
| 2 | The letter does not make specific the details of the matter , as one would hardly expect it to do , but Miss Kenton states unambiguously that she has now , in fact , taken the step of moving out of Mr Benn 's house in Helston and is presently lodging with an acquaintance in the nearby village of Little Compton . |
| 3 | In spite of the profound dissimilarities between father and son , and the bitter personal conflicts between them , Frederick II remained always the executor of Frederick William I. ‘ Only his care , ’ he wrote of his father , ‘ his untiring work , his scrupulously just policies , his great and admirable thriftiness and the strict discipline he introduced into the army which he himself had created , made possible the achievements I have so far accomplished . ’ |
| 4 | Make specific the goals you need to attain in order to earn each reward . |
| 5 | There seems no real reason why managerial bonus schemes of the Finsinger and Vogelsang ( 1981 ) type can not be introduced in order to provide incentives to greater efficiency , and in fact these are more relevant than profit-based bonuses given that the firms concerned have monopoly power . |
| 6 | Given that the origins of semantics are diffuse ( logic , philosophy , linguistics , etc. ) it may be also observed that the boundaries of the subject are equally amorphous . |
| 7 | This in general would seem to involve two elements : a process of communication , discussion , and exchange of information with the aim of reaching an agreement ; and , where there are gains to reneging on the agreement given that the others comply , some kind of mechanism for punishing such violations and so enforcing the agreement . |
| 8 | Given that the chances of establishing oneself in sport are extremely small regardless of colour , this is a rather dangerous channelling of objectives . |
| 9 | Formally , the dielectric constant can be regarded as the equivalent of the mechanical compliance , rather than the modulus , and this highlights the fact that mechanical techniques measure the ability of the system to resist movement , whereas the dielectric approach is a measurement of the ability of the system to move , given that the groups involved must also be dipolar . |
| 10 | It now remains to ask what to many is the most difficult question , whether , given that the services are available , albeit on a limited basis , they can properly be denied to certain patients.3 This raises not only the issue of fairness or justice , but also that of selective treatment and respect for life . |
| 11 | ‘ Ay carumba ! ’ and , most tellingly of all , given that The Simpsons are Sky-TV 's biggest asset here , ‘ Kids in TV-land , you 're being duped ’ |
| 12 | Given that the laws of optics are true ( and for the naive inductivist , this can be established from observation by induction ) , and given that the initial conditions are accurately described , then the explanation of the rainbow necessarily follows . |
| 13 | Given that the rituals of circumcision and menstrual taboo , like the other blood rituals , would appear to have derived at least in their final form from the trauma of the exile to Babylon and the consequent restructuring of the Jewish community , we shall need to start our historical survey some centuries further back in time in order to locate and appreciate the profound changes which occurred in and around the sixth century BC . |
| 14 | The worldwide acceptance of the need for supranational controls on the environment — given that the holes in the ozone layer , the greenhouse effect and tropical deforestation affect the whole planet rather than individual countries — has lent new respect and strength to the United Nations . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the extent to which the return on capital employed calculation can measure operating capability , given that the accounts are not current cost accounts , is debatable . |
| 16 | If this was the overall assumption then , given that the communists were reckoned to have captured the nationalist movement in Vietnam , there could , logically , be no other course open to the US — France , naturally , would have her own reasons — than to resist . |
| 17 | However , given that the policies adopted by the UK government and EC Commission were a quota and minimum import price respectively , it is necessary to derive appropriate non-tariff policies to compare with the policies utilized in practice . |
| 18 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 19 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 20 | Jardine 's concern that this was not necessarily the best procedure , given that the specimens might be subject to decay , proved the case when several of the boxes , which Prince had been forced to break open , were found to contain moths and mildew . |
| 21 | Although one should not read too much into this , given that the families in the survey had at least one child in primary ( board ) school by definition , and therefore the oldest were sometimes the only ones of an age to be working , it can safely be said that the openings for girls in the printing trade must have been a godsend for low-income families with several children . |
| 22 | But he made it clear when he arrived in Perth the next day that he disagreed with Marsh 's sacking , an interesting observation given that the players ' code of behaviour specifically states that they are not permitted to comment on selection decisions . |
| 23 | Admittedly , this decline is not ‘ comparable to ’ that in the Mirror , but given that The Times was ‘ a newspaper of record ’ whilst the Mirror was a popular newspaper , one can argue that the decline in The Times ’ coverage was more serious . |
| 24 | ‘ Ships such as the traders use might make such a journey given that the conditions are not adverse . |
| 25 | Nor would adoption of a tariff obviate the need for economies , given that the Conservatives insisted upon severe retrenchment , whether combined with a tariff or not . |
| 26 | Given that the police are essentially an organization constrained by an ingrained respect for the pragmatism of action — regardless of the lip-service paid to the police college , the ‘ special course ’ , or the university scholarship — it was inevitable that the hierarchy would follow the dictates of institutional philosophy and pull the marginal mover in from the periphery ; for there is a boundary beyond which the pilgrim can not be allowed to stray . |
| 27 | Given that the remedies under consideration in the present case are primarily of an in personam character , perhaps a closer analogy is to cases concerned with the circumstances in which English courts have granted or refused injunctions to restrain creditors , who have not proved in an English bankruptcy , from taking proceedings abroad or compelling them to refund property obtained abroad . |
| 28 | Given that the units each do their particular thing , I can then understand how they interact to make the whole engine move . |
| 29 | Indeed , given that the sciences are more usually concerned with the inanimate world than the animate , it would seem that there was much less potential in the physical sciences for portraying women negatively . |
| 30 | Simonsen continued , ‘ Given that the impressions from the chemical substances are not obtained from the sensory organs , they do not have a pattern that is correlated with the environment in a logical way . |