Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investment overview should therefore quickly impart the essential basic information which will interest the potential purchaser . |
| 2 | Its leader , Mahmut Alinak , who in May had resigned from the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP — the junior party in the governing coalition ) said that he hoped that the OZEP would absorb the former Kurdish nationalist People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) . |
| 3 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 4 | BP Solar is developing a technology based on an alternative semiconductor that can absorb the whole solar spectrum in about one-thousandth of a millimetre of material . |
| 5 | If we strip it of the insulation apparently provided by its appeal to the technology of literacy , we will expose the same ethnocentric claims and uncritical faith in the observer 's own ways of thinking . |
| 6 | ‘ We must build the finest sporting coupe in the world , ’ exhorted Rolls-Royce chief executive Peter Ward some four years ago . |
| 7 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 8 | It will probably never build the 2.8 million-transistor 601 , projected to have a three-year life cycle . |
| 9 | We must build the broadest possible movement of opposition to Conservative policies . |
| 10 | According to a study by the finance ministry , the government 's aim was to ‘ liberate the considerable financial resources which [ these enterprises ] absorb and employ them in financing activities and companies with a future and capable of generating stable employment ’ ( cited in El País , 6 July 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Wayne was David Koresh 's legal advisor , but took his turn in helping construct the flimsy wooden building . |
| 12 | Church and human rights groups in Haïti hope that more international pressure will oblige the current military regime to desist from its acts of violence and draconian censorship . |
| 13 | Signing the convention will not oblige the 27 Caribbean nations to take any action . |
| 14 | which will counteract the induced electric field Ei so that the resultant electric field E = Ei + Ec is constant everywhere along the wire . |
| 15 | The age range of the study population will enormously influence the final estimated prevalence rate . |
| 16 | During the last 12 months or so there have been several major developments which will influence the international economic climate in which we all operate . |
| 17 | These exploratory adventures are conducted in the safe knowledge that they are carried out within sight of a parent , and if there is ever any doubt about this the infant can throw the occasional backward glance for reassurance . |
| 18 | Mr Clinton has spoken out firmly on China 's poor human rights record in the past and has speculated about removing its Most Favoured Nation status which would cripple the developing southern part of the country . |
| 19 | In order to see what other pronunciation problems there may be , one also needs to study and compare the various individual phonemes of the two languages and see what variants they have . |
| 20 | To be on your way all you have to do is answer the three simple questions [ below ] and fill out the entry coupon . |
| 21 | I have already said that I shall answer the three particular issues that it raised . |
| 22 | All you have to do is answer the three multiple-choice questions ( right ) by circling the correct corresponding letter in the coupon and send , to the address given , by Friday June 14 , 1991 . |
| 23 | Round about here , the network of caves under the ochreous rocks has been turned into vast champignonnières , and at the modest little Restaurant David ( no relation ) you can eat the local cultivated mushrooms cooked à la crème or à la provençale with , naturally , olive oil , parsley and garlic . |
| 24 | The people around them did n't worship the one true God . |
| 25 | Although through appropriate complex parameters the Z and h-parameter equivalent circuits can reproduce the small-signal sinusoidal response of any four-terminal network at any frequency , it is more usual to represent just the low-frequency behaviour by such an equivalent circuit with real parameters . |
| 26 | Their intention was to treat each case on its merits rather than reproduce the traditional left-right divide in British politics . |
| 27 | Furthermore , a digital graph plotter can reproduce the whole visual image on paper , with pinpoint accuracy , in a minute or two . |
| 28 | It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing . |
| 29 | This year , once again , Mace is fortunate to be able to call on the services of Richard Lewis , National Director of Training at the Lawn Tennis Association , who will oversee the 12 selected tennis enthusiasts on the courts of Eton school , where the youngsters will reside during the week of 19th–25th July . |
| 30 | And so we will try and reestablish and reaffirm the main basic principles to make sure that you maintain proper safety margins and er good reaction time , room to manoeuvre , as we 're going through . |