Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical breakdown of rock is always associated with some kind of volume change and it is useful to categorize the various processes into those involving an overall volumetric change in the rock mass and those related to changes in volume of material introduced into voids or fissures in the rock . |
| 2 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 3 | It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council . |
| 4 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | After the 1988 Education Reform Act , the primary team expanded further to accommodate the additional responsibilities placed on LEAs by the Act . |
| 6 | permission to enlarge Thornton Heath depôt to accommodate the additional cars which would be necessary to work the enlarged system and to provide an entrance in Whitehall Road . |
| 7 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 8 | It was acknowledged , however , not least by the participants , that the agreement was primarily regarded as a means of defusing ethnic tensions and the possibility of civil war rather than as a concrete proposal to accommodate the political aspirations of Moslems , Serbs and Croats . |
| 9 | a method of spacing whereby each each character is spaced to accommodate the varying widths of letters or figures , so increasing readability . |
| 10 | To accommodate the major developments , large areas of land will be reclaimed , with an emphasis on the provision of fill material from offshore sand sources . |
| 11 | It 's the one room that has in some way to accommodate the changing interests of all members of the family ; it 's also the room that is most on show , the room where your guests stay the longest . |
| 12 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 13 | To accommodate the lofty ceilings of some of the main rooms , Lutyens used the traditional architectural solution of inserting extra or mezzanine rooms on all four fronts . |
| 14 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 15 | Much of the castle was redecorated or refurbished , a new wing was constructed to accommodate the extra guests who would be in residence for the event , and a very elegant bridge was constructed over the Lugton Water , a short distance west of the castle . |
| 16 | In recent years , the school has seen major changes with the enlargement and modernisation of the building to accommodate the extra children from nearby Froyle , following the closure of the school there in 1986 . |
| 17 | Even more revolutionary , though , were the social adjustments that needed to be made to accommodate the new masses . |
| 18 | We we we 're empowered er by these orders to set up the new constituencies , er they do not actually come into effect to enable the elections to be held upon them er until all the countries of the E E C have agreed the changes that are necessary to accommodate the new numbers that er they will be having , er so the act , the ninety three act , has a commencement hour within it . |
| 19 | Attached to the church was a large canvas annexe to accommodate the Abyssinian notables and the foreign dignitaries , and it was here that the crowning took place . |
| 20 | That deprives Japanese of the space that , in other rich countries , would be used to accommodate the domestic fantasies whose purchase occupies the weekends and disposes of the earnings of workers . |
| 21 | The Department of Trade and Industry was broken up still further into three separate departments : Trade , Prices and Consumer Protection , and Industry , to accommodate the ministerial dispositions he wished to make in the Cabinet . |
| 22 | That is precisely why we allow local education authorities the flexibility to devise schemes to accommodate the particular circumstances of small schools and those with very high inherited salary costs . |
| 23 | Recommending that hoop-skirts could be usefully converted into play-pens for children , Punch also pondered on whether Regent Street might have to be widened ‘ in order to accommodate the growing dimensions of the ladies ’ dresses ' . |
| 24 | As Myers mentions , there are already some programmes in operation which suggest that the national resource base can be manipulated to accommodate the growing needs of the population without serious impairment of soil fertility . |
| 25 | The story in Scotland begins with the first Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh where , in 1710 , noble ladies waited patiently to dance a minuet with their partners — one couple at a time to accommodate the huge dresses . |
| 26 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 27 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |
| 28 | Taking it down to her cellars she cut holes in its surface to accommodate the inverted bottles of Champagne . |
| 29 | A submarine trench has been postulated to accommodate the thick piles of Manx and Skiddaw slates in north-west England , perhaps superimposed on an earlier Cambrian island arc . |
| 30 | On the other hand it must be subtle and flexible enough to accommodate the diverse forms of capitalist society , and to be immune to refutation by counter example . |