Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How absurd to see the works of William Penn in flaming scarlet , and George Fox 's Journal in Bishop 's purple ! |
| 2 | Given that we wish to give British industry the flexibility to employ part-time workers , is not this another effort by Labour to hit the people who most want to seek jobs ? |
| 3 | Is that to fool the staff or fool the customers ? |
| 4 | Where the size of the board is not critical , it is often preferable to draft the p.c.b . |
| 5 | A combination of indicated altitude plus indicated airspeed , together with atmospheric temperature obtained from meteorological records , makes it possible to establish the mach number and true airspeed . |
| 6 | It is possible to adjust the data for the high proportion of part-time workers , by assuming that two of them are equivalent to one full-time worker . |
| 7 | We 're doing everything possible to find the people responsible . ‘ |
| 8 | Back on vinyl following a two-year bout of writer 's block , he 's surprised and depressed to find the media 's image of him as rock 's Mr Glum has survived , in spite of the exhilarating content of the new LP , These Immortal Souls ' ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' . |
| 9 | 2 Lay the cod fillets on top and scatter over the remaining vegetables and lemon . |
| 10 | All this drives the media towards a largely predictable way of selecting and presenting events : what Tuchman ( 1974 ) has called ‘ routinising the unexpected ’ . |
| 11 | The group plans to publish its annual report and accounts for the year ended 30 September 1992 on 19 January 1993 using the FRS 3 basis , which of course was only published at the end of October last year . |
| 12 | And West Germany of course , has had ten years of massive growth in nuclear power , I do n't hear the Green movement pressing us to imitate that ; they want the end result but they 're not prepared to wield the means . |
| 13 | This , they suggest , was done on 17 December 1949 when the JCS proposed that the $75 m. fund should include French Indo-China , as well as Burma and Thailand , and this provided the means for an early programme of assistance in the French struggle against Ho Chi Minh . |
| 14 | The lowering of pH in fact causes aluminium to be released from clays ( in which it abounds ) , and this causes the fish 's gills to produce mucus , which reduces their ability to absorb oxygen . |
| 15 | This places the people in a dilemma ; while they reject the Compact of Free Association , the Trusteeship Agreement with respect to Palau remains in force , depriving them of their right to self-determination . |
| 16 | Is n't it easier to pass the buck to your boss , some staff person or a committee ? |
| 17 | In reality , however , it might be easier to find the £12,230 capital to finance the outdoor venture than the £88,000 for the alternative indoor housing . |
| 18 | In this situation it is obviously easier to find the fish than understand what the feature is that keeps them coming back to that swim . |
| 19 | But it was not willing to provide the means needed to make the Serbs ( or Croats ) stop land-grabs . |
| 20 | This kills the fish and plant life . |
| 21 | This caused the aircraft to turn downwind rapidly . |
| 22 | Table 1 and Table 2 show the means and standard deviations for recall by serial position when recall was immediate and delayed respectively . |
| 23 | This allows the carp no slack whatsoever and no opportunity , therefore , to shed the hook . |
| 24 | This panics the fish , which immediately bolts , comes up against the heavy bomb which pulls the hook in some more , and then the back stop hits the bomb and penetration of the hook is complete . |
| 25 | This increases the fish 's view just as a car 's rear-view mirrors give us an impression of the scene behind . |
| 26 | Paul , who is based in Wigan , received a £250 voucher and started the second half of the competition as favourite to win the £500 end of year prize . |
| 27 | This leads the staff into some contortions since logic would suggest that those who ‘ consume ’ more than their fair share of ‘ teacher time ’ should lose some in the future rather than take up still more as the monitoring of the punishment will entail . |
| 28 | As such , he or she has to work closely with the creative people and with media : in some agencies this includes the media planning , too . |
| 29 | John Scott , prospective Labour candidate for Stockton South : ‘ In a last-ditch attempt to remain in power the Government is prepared to bribe the people of Stockton by borrowing to pay for tax cuts . ’ |
| 30 | I am prepared to let the people of this country decide . |