Example sentences of "[adj] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commons wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law , so that every landowner should have the right of free chase in his own lands and woods . |
| 2 | ‘ You remember how shy the father of Moseh was when Hamed 's father put the proposal ? |
| 3 | The choice , then , between reform or revolution , involved two contemporaneous strands of development , the one towards political the other towards industrial democracy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Every health minister faces the same central problem : it is not just a matter of putting right the deficiencies of the past ; you also need to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the present . |
| 6 | We will have a different attitude , we 'll bear to watch what is happening in competitive tendering and to ask questions and to get the right the facts on competitive tendering because we found a lot of these round the competitive tendering do n't you , do n't you worry and we ai n't finished with it yet I can tell you and also we have ev , the people who are , the in house , walking in the house , have a right to have some protection from it , to see that when we dole out those contracts that it least they are genuine and they 've got a someone to see that that their interest is looked after . |
| 7 | And at least you wanted to put right the wrong by offering to marry me . ’ |
| 8 | Second , is n't there an urgent need for a fundamental rethinking of the accounting conventions by which company performance is measured , if would-be ethical investors are to know how environmentally friendly the companies in which they invest really are ? |
| 9 | The sexual drives and attractiveness of this body are a part of the magnetism which draws male and female together and makes possible the celebration of that relationship . |
| 10 | It may be it is not the hair itself but possible the style of fishing associated that could be the problem . |
| 11 | In line with recent methodological trends , the stories are enjoyable for their own sake , and aim to resemble as closely as possible the style of book children would choose to read in their first language . |
| 12 | However that may be , the learning by predators to avoid prey of a particular appearance makes possible the evolution of another strategy : mimicry . |
| 13 | To separate as far as possible the concepts of equity and efficiency , economists use the concept of Pareto efficiency . |
| 14 | His father , Samuel Whitbread I , who died in 1796 , left a legacy which made possible the building of the Bedford Infirmary ( later to become South Wing ) a few years later . |
| 15 | Though the terms of the Barber bequest originally forbad the purchase of works painted after 1899 , this stipulation has since been altered to permit the acquisition of works of art at least thirty years old — an alteration which has made possible the purchase under the present Director , Professor Hamish Miles , of important pictures by Redon , Gwen John , Leger and Magritte . |
| 16 | ‘ A calm mind makes possible the achievement of many objectives that would otherwise be beyond us . |
| 17 | The TEC LM100 is a corded gun which operates at a lower temperature ( almost 70° lower is claimed by the manufacturers ) than most models , making possible the bonding of heat-sensitive materials such as polystyrene foam , fabrics and thin film material . |
| 18 | Aboriginal communities possesses a richness of grammar , syntax and vocabulary that makes possible the expression of subtle nuances of thought , and the complex social structure of the Aboriginals is a further proof that he is not ‘ prehistoric ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Since VJ day , the majority people of the area , the Vietnamese , have stubbornly resisted the re-establishment of French authority , a struggle in which we have tried to maintain so far as possible the position of non-support of either party ’ . |
| 20 | Practically , the oral administration test with PABA-UDCA disulphate makes possible the evaluation of colonic bacteria because most intestinal bacteria is present in the colon . |
| 21 | The very centrality of the aristocracy and its culture in Vienna , however , made possible the restabilization of bürgerliche culture , partly through the integration of a substantial element of aestheticist aristocratic culture into the bourgeois habitus . |
| 22 | The object of production under such circumstances is not to accumulate property but to make possible the continuation of the individual in society , since only as a member of society can one find meaning in human existence . |
| 23 | Technology made possible the opening of geographically remote or inaccessible areas to export production , most notably the plains of the central United States and of south-eastern Russia . |
| 24 | It also makes possible the attainment of other economic and social goals without , perhaps , the need for additional taxation . |
| 25 | One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board . |
| 26 | Chile 's previous period of democracy and the way that the labour movement had developed it independent , political base and strong organisational structure during that time , made possible the development of militant collective action on the part of the proletariat . |
| 27 | An example is how NFI-type arrangements have made possible the development of Brazil 's automobile component industry . |
| 28 | The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life . |
| 29 | As I suggested in the previous chapter , the creation of the European Economic Area and the looming enlargement of the Community make possible the development of an EEC consisting of some twenty to twenty-five freely cooperating nations . |
| 30 | The advent of the computer has made possible the development of complex simulations of situations in human and regional geography . |