Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust ( Telford ) Established in 1968 , the Museum Trust conserves the unique industrial remains of the area , which comprise coke-smelting furnaces , the world 's first iron bridge , china factories and much more . |
| 2 | The pantomime analogy draws the reader and characters together into a collective fictional position within an audience , and by so doing counteracts the opposite isolating direction of the forces of war , bureaucracy and totalitarianism . |
| 3 | The uncertainty of catastrophic or chronic illness and the costs incurred means that no developed country leaves health care entirely to the market , even in the United States which most nearly fits the New Right model . |
| 4 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 5 | She kicks the high-flying American banker out of the family home and he winds up renting a room in the home of lonely divorcee Monica . |
| 6 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 7 | This work records the last photographic journey of his life : to Cyprus . |
| 8 | The book also records the 1972 National Federation of Fish Friers conference at the Park Hotel , Tynemouth , where the president 's banquet and ball cost £2.50 and delegates were entrailed in a debate about what to do with chicken giblets . |
| 9 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 10 | This programme involves the total Catholic school community in discussion of Catholic school philosophy , ethos and goals and leads to an examination of programmes , structures , relationships and practices in the school . |
| 11 | For He could swim across the river : This also involves the intra-infinitival virtual person occupying the same position in time as the actual person which specifies its rank contained in the auxiliary , but here the virtual person is conceived as the support of a potentiality and not of an actualization . |
| 12 | Let me illustrate with another example that involves the entire organisational culture at the upper levels . |
| 13 | Arguing a case involves the following four stages : |
| 14 | To illustrate this , consider a simple example in which producing a woollen coat involves the following three stages of production : |
| 15 | Mind or memory is that total creative capacity for consciousness , which also contains that which is below the level of immediate recognition — man 's full potential for knowledge , which is like God himself It is the theatre of human integrity which involves the other two faculties , " resoun " and " will " . |
| 16 | It involves the whole political economy of modern agriculture — and that includes consumers and politicians as well as producers . |
| 17 | The first involves the statutory local planning process ; for the location of quarries , mines , factories or holiday complexes in rural areas has become a source of conflict among local social groups . |
| 18 | The change also raises important theoretical questions because reading by touch involves the same cognitive and linguistic skills as visual reading but uses a system which differs physically and in modality . |
| 19 | The system involves the same military satellites used in the Gulf war by the Allies to keep track of vehicle movements . |
| 20 | Taken together , these findings exclude the possibility that either apoptosis or the protective effect of bcl-2 involves the mitochondrial respiratory chain , at least in these cells under the conditions that we have studied , and raise the possibility that the Bcl-2 protein might exert its protective effect while bound to the continuous nuclear and ER membrane . |
| 21 | This external punishment of , and reduction in , the ego exactly parallels the internal punitive and self-depreciating tendencies found in clinical depression and , to a much lesser extent , in normal mourning . |
| 22 | For some of this distance it parallels the Tizi n'Test road , so travellers are aware of the big river , but nobody had written about its higher reaches . |
| 23 | The differences between living in my Hollywood A-frame and in our Balinese house required an organism-crunching transition , which in many ways parallels the fundamental complementary opposites between East and West . |
| 24 | Lord Minchampstead installs new steam-engines on his farms , enforces the new Poor Law to the letter , and will not give a farthing away in alms . |
| 25 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 26 | Secondly , not only have Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) confirmed that it is a close relationship that plays the key protective role in the development of depression ( regular contact , fair level of confiding ) , but they also found that it was essential to consider both positive and negative aspects of such relationships for any satisfactory understanding . |
| 27 | The Pakistani today plays the former British champion Geoff Williams for a place in the main draw . |
| 28 | ICL plays the two rival superscalar Sparcs off against each other in its DRS 6000 line |
| 29 | I still miss him and it is a struggle not to be unfair to Steve Martin , who now plays the exasperated central figure of Father Of The Bride ( PG , Odeons West End and Marble Arch ) . |
| 30 | One of the most obvious examples of this principle of ‘ statement and change ’ is the old concerto grosso form , where the main orchestra , or ‘ tutti ’ , always plays the same musical substance , each statement being separated by the solo ‘ concertino ’ group playing something different , usually of a virtuoso character . |