Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , you must expand your psyche to accommodate the bigger and better . |
| 2 | It is to accommodate the six or seven-day working week . |
| 3 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 4 | The original concept for reservoir access was replaced by designing three horizontal wells to target the thin but high permeability layers . |
| 5 | At best the existence of some checks and balances , or statutory tripwires , may serve to alert the wary as to how things are moving . |
| 6 | So , when Kabye soldiers shot 26 anti-government Ewes , the Ewe chiefs of Lomé called their people to the sacred grove of Bé , to mourn the dead and plan revenge . |
| 7 | You wanted more humour — perhaps we sometimes forget that fishkeeping is fun — so we recruited Old Fishfinger and started our Newswatch column to monitor the strange and humorous . |
| 8 | This research aims to monitor the continuing but tentative humanitarian , parliamentary and economic contacts between the regimes to detect any changes in their positions , and to gauge what impact their contacts are having upon their domestic politics . |
| 9 | I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour . |
| 10 | By Lesson 27 the speed had dropped to 87rpm , the speed I had to use to get the voice to sound the same as Lesson 1 . |
| 11 | May we learn to cherish the good that lies within us . |
| 12 | The county council had wanted to demolish the towering and elegant stone-built landmark and replace it with a more functional concrete and steel structure . |
| 13 | This urge to preserve the valued and precious non-material things that seem to come inevitably into human life , has found its expression in the setting up of idols in every conceivable form . |
| 14 | The appellate court instructed the district court to apply the law of salvage instead , determining the share of salvagers and insurers according to the cost of recovery and the care taken by the salvagers to preserve the historical and archaeological value of the wreck . |
| 15 | The facility offered by the membranes for karyotyping lends itself to studies in which there is a need to preserve the abnormal or normal embryo intact . |
| 16 | The Forestry Commission are making valiant efforts to re-create these old woodlands , and are trying to preserve the little that remains . |
| 17 | This Eliot had taken from his reading of anthropology , as would become clear from his later social writings , and he sought to preserve the physical and spiritual bonds of his culture in the city of London . |
| 18 | The former wished to see a revived private sector , the latter wished to preserve the institutional and economic status quo . |
| 19 | Until now , most judges had been reluctant to enforce the harsh and unjust laws directed against the Nonconformists . |
| 20 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 21 | Dioxins are known to cause cancer and to affect the immune and reproductive system of animals . |
| 22 | UITF9 requires adjustments to be made where the distortions caused by the hyper-inflation are such as to affect the true and fair view given by those accounts . |
| 23 | The ninth consensus of the ASB 's Urgent Issues Task Force requires adjustments to be made when the distortions are such as to affect the true and fair view of the accounts . |
| 24 | When he arrived his first task was to light the one and only office fire . |
| 25 | Furthermore , any attempt to promote the biological and instinctive bases of human behaviour at the expense of social relations and processes is surely doomed to failure . |
| 26 | You have to risk the cracking and the warping . |
| 27 | If you wish to venture northwards you can discover beaches , such as Cala Vinas , a bustling resort 3km away , and see the luxurious villas of the rich and famous who come here to sample the many and varied pleasures on offer . |
| 28 | In 1958 Britain still hoped to embrace the Six and other OEEC members in a free trade area , holding most of Western Europe together . |
| 29 | In domestic plumbing , two different types of pipe are used : one to carry the hot and cold water to the fitting ; the other to carry the dirty water away to the soil and waste pipes . |
| 30 | There 's a good painkiller in those and there 's the stuff to scatter the bruising as well . |