Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Bob Marley Museum might be a skank down memory lane , but the reggae tourist — with a degree of protection from the rude-boys — can easily absorb the current ragga vibe . |
| 32 | As yet Asturian industry could not absorb the surplus population : hazel nuts were a more important export than coal . |
| 33 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 34 | Ability of the dressing to remove or absorb the excess exudate and other substances toxic to the cells |
| 35 | What I was asking was , in your view , does the A sixty four north sector landscape have the capacity to a absorb the new settlement ? |
| 36 | Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them . |
| 37 | A self catering holiday , in a typical Italian villa or apartment , is the only way to really absorb the true lifestyle of our country . |
| 38 | To sail over a wave without jumping you need to unhook and let your legs absorb the rising wave — rather like a skier uses his legs as shock absorbers over bumps . |
| 39 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 40 | The more important security , structure and definition are to us , the more readily we will absorb the formal signals about expected behaviour . |
| 41 | This stance , it was suggested , would enable the government to obtain from the USA US$10,000 million in housing loan guarantees to help absorb the latest wave of immigrants [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 42 | He saw , with that sharp acumen that made the Heinz organisation famous , that Portland Place could not absorb the expanding requirements of a British Architectural Library , an architecture centre , and a professional institution . |
| 43 | The documentary impulse was inherent in the contract filmmakers made with the MOI at the beginning of the war , but it could absorb the poetic romanticism or Powell-Pressburger , the sophisticated visual and verbal montages produced by Humphrey Jennings , another documentarist with surrealist roots , in such 1941 pictures as Words for Battle and Listen to Britain , as well as films in the realist tradition . |
| 44 | Healers lay crystals on ‘ chakras ’ — the parts of the body such as the solar plexus and the thymus area ( above ) which can best absorb the healing energy |
| 45 | To return to the second point about church growth made at the end of the second chapter , ‘ demand ’ is not the only factor in church growth ; one must also consider supply , and the Free Church was gradually coming into the position where it could service the new demand . |
| 46 | So we 've now got to go back and revisit it , he 's full up er , we 've got to look at his client , client load er and we 've got to find other ways in which we can actually service the due diligence work , still using him very much as the marketing focus to er the initiative and continue the the growth . |
| 47 | If I give you some background to , to Moat and to the project itself , an and how we 're gon na approach the scheme I 'll then hand over to Alan who will talk about the design issues and the master plan and we 'll price the Three Hills and how they 'll they can meet that subjective . |
| 48 | Whether you can only spare the occasional day or are prepared to help on a regular basis , Chapter 12 , Voluntary Work , lists a fund of suggestions you might like to consider . |
| 49 | ‘ Why did you spare the two children , Adolph ? ’ |
| 50 | I 'm thankful you 'll stay the extra time . ’ |
| 51 | Fortunate Man 's TV Trophy triumph was over 855 metres , so the winner of the Sunderland Regal Sayers Trophy will stay the 827 metre trip at the east Boldon Stadium . |
| 52 | In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity . |
| 53 | Not to exaggerate the cat 's breeding abilities , it must be recorded that from the age of eight until twelve years there is a gradual decline in the number of kittens produced in each litter , so the reproductive apparatus is beginning to show signs of slowing down at this stage , and only the strongest and healthiest of moggies can stay the full course . |
| 54 | Certainly he did not stay the full course which was seven years for the qualification of a Master 's degree , the necessary precondition for further study of law , theology and medicine . |
| 55 | Mum says we can stay the ten minutes as long as we ai n't a nuisance . ’ |
| 56 | But if the world radio community accepts the plans outlined by the home secretary , the BBC 's assignments will stay the same width . |
| 57 | Orange badge holders will be allowed to park on High Row and Skinnergate for three hours up to 10.30am ; those arriving just before the deadline can stay the three hours . |
| 58 | Er Mr has referred to site number five which was the A six one north of Killinghall and because we 've already had this discussion , I would presume the inner relief road would have dramatically changed those figures there . |
| 59 | At the same time , the Asian participants acknowledged the need to extend and deepen their dialogue with people of different faiths and cultures and to ‘ rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice , freedom and peace . ’ |
| 60 | Raising the bar , argues UI 's Dave Sandell , will relegate the GUI issue by allowing firms to use the interface specifications to ensure desktop compatibility , leaving them free ‘ to compete on implementation , not on application programming interfaces ( APIs ) . ’ |