Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although libertarianism at present constitutes the main driving force for the Federation of Conservative Students , there was no evidence of this ideological philosophy in the branches we studied .
2 As well as using the grant to provide a new cafe and shop , the association is also planning to stage a new exhibition at Thiepval using the latest state-of-the-art audio-visual technology to tell the Ulstermen 's story .
3 Beyond these woods lay the round green hills of Donegal 's farmland , not unlike England 's South Downs , the fields bounded by tall hedges .
4 Adopting this model , the CNAA decided that institutions using the proposed new procedures ‘ would be expected to have a particularly effective internal procedure : the Council would require the formation of an Institution Validating Committee ’ .
5 Tx represents the additional tectonic stress not predicted by the horizontally-constrained elastic model .
6 GTE Corp 's GTE Telecommunication Services and Digital Equipment Corp have joined forces to develop the CloneDetector , a knowledge-based system to reduce clone fraud in the cellular industry : the system will automatically detect simultaneous calls using the same cellular telephone number but originating from multiple locations , or calls originating outside the normal geographic area used for a particular cellular telephone ; it will build a case for each instance of fraudulent use , prioritise the cases , and recommend the actions to be taken .
7 In this study for the Employment Department , Peck and Stone provide some very interesting evidence on employers ' attempts to embrace the new industrial relations .
8 Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation .
9 The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s .
10 But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters .
11 persistent Soviet attempts to penetrate the Latin American market with its machinery and equipment indicate a distinct reluctance to acquiesce in the continuance of the existing trading imbalance .
12 President Assad 's decision to support the United States-led anti-Iraqi alliance after the Iraqi President and Assad 's Ba'athist adversary , Saddam Hussein , had ordered Iraqi forces into Kuwait in August 1990 led to a swift international reappraisal of Syria , a country long ostracised by the West as a sponsor of international terrorism .
13 One µg of mRNA was reverse transcribed using M-MLV RT and subjected to PCR using the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) AD13/AD15 , ( 2 ) AD13/8E2 ( 3 ) AD15/3200 .
14 ( 1 ) the first post will be based in the Academic Division and will involve in part assisting the Senior Assistant Registrar ( Miss C.L. Lee ) who currently has oversight of arrangements for academic audit , quality assessment and related matters , particularly with the preparation of statistical material and the organisation of visits .
15 Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government .
16 To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries .
17 And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast .
18 Baker met the senior Mongolian party and government leaders : Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , the Chairman of the People 's Great Hural Presidium ; Sharavyn Gungaadorj , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren ; and the general secretary of the MPRP , Gombojavyn Ochirbat .
19 The idea of producing a well-damped single.step response using the intermediate half-step technique was described in Section 4.3.1 .
20 Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage
21 Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland .
22 Students at the Belfast campus have the opportunity to enjoy the many social and recreational facilities available in the capital of Northern Ireland .
23 Yet what workforce is left is asked , no it 's told that one point five is a sufficient pay rise given the present economic climate , the catch being up to one point five , not one point five .
24 On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect .
25 When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime .
26 Navarre lost his castles and was lucky not to lose his life ; he was to attempt further intrigues with the English , but his double-dealing made the English wary of him .
27 C/EBPδ represents the IL-6 induced complex that interacts with IL-6RE
28 Danish star Torben Piechnik , who will complete a £500,000 move to Anfield today from FC Copenhagen , had hardly settled into his seat before Stewart made the vital early breakthrough in the fourth minute .
29 It was a unique experience to rummage the various weird oil-related craft , construction barges , pipe-laying barges , drilling rigs etc. , some of them like small townships afloat with huge crews made up of separate groups such as divers , riggers , welders , roustabouts and supervisors .
30 Three further versions known in sixteenth-century copies from Germany combine the three major elements of the tale : the Second Flood , the kissing of the arse ( in all cases the male lover 's arse , not the woman 's ) and the retaliatory branding .
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