Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 2 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |
| 3 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 4 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 5 | On this scenario , Charles the Bald , whose reign ( 840 – 77 ) fairly straddled the mid-ninth century , was doomed to failure : like Charlemagne , he lacked the institutional means to exploit even what wealth there was within his realm , but , unlike Charlemagne , he could no longer lead successful plundering raids against the surrounding peoples , nor keep his aristocracy happy with regular share-outs of loot . |
| 6 | They strongly favour the verbal media , namely , telephone calls and meetings . |
| 7 | New pockets are required for the snooker tables and to accommodate the smaller 10p coin adjustments will be necessary to the pool table . |
| 8 | New pockets are required for the snooker tables and to accommodate the smaller 10p coin adjustments will be necessary to the pool table . |
| 9 | Knead the soaked fruit into the dough . |
| 10 | Obviously , the Nimbus pilot was at fault for allowing the other people at the launch point to influence his judgement . |
| 11 | Allowing the 1 cm of fish per 3.5 litres of water ( 1″ of fish to 2 imperial gallons ) rule to apply gave me room for five small fish . |
| 12 | The following day Proinsias de Rossa , leader of the Workers ' Party , read sections of the advertisement out in the Dail , thereby allowing the Irish media to publish them with impunity . |
| 13 | This inhibits the normal feeding response and the great predator opens its mouth , allowing the little fish in ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 14 | Prosecuting uneducated deaf people with no speech , and accepting what they said in their defence in those days was however a different matter altogether from allowing the same people to go into the witness box and testify against other people . |
| 15 | Just how little the opening of a new Front in the east matched the widespread desire for a rapid end to the war , and how risky the extension of the conflict was felt to be , can be seen in the admission , a few months later , by Adolf Wagner , Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria , at a meeting of Party functionaries , that if Hitler had consulted the German people before the start of the war in the east about its readiness for the Russian campaign , the vast majority of the population would have said : ‘ My God , keep your hands off , my dear Adolf Hitler . |
| 16 | This project first develops a methodology to enable the annually-published data on levels of expenditure and provision to be used , freed from distortion by inflation and changed definitions . |
| 17 | Peter is also given an appointment with the dietician for advice and an appointment at the Outpatient clinic to enable the medical staff to monitor his progress . |
| 18 | ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’ |
| 19 | To further demonstrate that the sequences encompassing the 80 bp fragment are able to bind proteins in a sequence-specific manner , we synthesized oligonucleotides corresponding to footprint I plus 5 bp flanking regions on each side ( see materials and methods ) as well as another oligonucleotide ( oligo III ) corresponding to the sequence distance between Δ72 and Δ73 , which deletion decreases transcription sharply ( see figures 1 and 2B ) . |
| 20 | Eleven independent full-length cDNAs were isolated after screening with a probe encompassing the c- fms first coding exon . |
| 21 | It is a large church for what has always been a small village — perhaps the work of some medieval lord of the manor intent on impressing the neighbouring gentry . |
| 22 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 23 | Treasurer Marie Taylor presented the mayor Coun Rita Fishwick with a scroll naming the 66 townspeople who served in the Gulf . |
| 24 | Dug-outs at some grounds have become chambers of horror , with visiting soccer bosses the sitting duck targets for verbal and , sometimes , physical abuse . |
| 25 | There are also commercial preparations of bacteria which are intended to restore the normal flora of the gut . |
| 26 | The ES/9000 guys are interested in building the best data management engine possible . |
| 27 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 28 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 29 | It is n't quite so quick to use as the knobs of a panel-mounted set as there is no way of rotating the full MHz figures separately from the decimals ( it takes my fingers well over 150 twiddles to get from 118,00 to 136.975 Mhz ) , but there is a twenty-frequency memory bank , and you can cycle quickly through the stored frequencies . |
| 30 | Four spare SIMM slots mean you can upgrade the basic 4Mb of RAM to a whopping 32Mb . |