Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary Marxist structuralists arguably confuse voluntarism ( the notion that individuals have unconstrained choices ) with methodological individualism ( the notion that social phenomena should be explained through the intended and unintended consequences of human actors making choices within constrained feasible sets of options ) . |
| 2 | That appeal was heard between the 10th and 19th of July . |
| 3 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 4 | The population of London nearly trebled between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries and , suddenly , the city people wanted meat . |
| 5 | It follows the success of the film Hear my song which features the recordings of Josef Locke made during the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 6 | Prenzlauer Berg was one of the most deprived and crime-ridden areas of East Berlin , a haven for the criminals who lived off the poor and an ideal proving ground for the young officer . |
| 7 | Post-war immigration from the New Commonwealth developed through the 1950s and 1960s , at a time when income trends were shifting from increasing equality to increasing inequality . |
| 8 | The method involves calculating two half-slopes : the left-hand half-slope is calculated between the first and the middle summary point , and the right-hand half-slope between the middle and the third point . |
| 9 | SEFIC examinations , at appropriate levels , may be taken in lieu of the short Oral Tests prescribed for the Second and Third Level English for Business and English for Commerce examinations . |
| 10 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 11 | Bureaux in the main are not purpose-built and even if they have been especially partitioned for the purpose-built and even if usually enough total space to consider the ergonomics of advice work . |
| 12 | Plumb ( 1.2 ) traces changes in the way children were treated between the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 13 | Born again , a true believer , he did charity work : he cared about the poor and the disadvantaged … |
| 14 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 15 | Africa 's modern print and electronic media developed as the direct or indirect result of contact with Europe . |
| 16 | The precise impact on the UK is still debated , but internal political opposition largely evaporated between the 1983 and 1987 General Elections . |
| 17 | So but er the overseas fellow , You know I 'll consider just on the same level , and ofte Well I never saw any er what you 'd call bickering and biding between the black and the white student . |
| 18 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 19 | The consolidation of the eternal and unshakeable friendship formed between the Soviet and Korean peoples , thanks to the liberation and assistance by the Soviet Union will further strengthen the international democratic camp and will make a valuable contribution to the struggle against the aggressive imperialists , the instigators of a new war . |
| 20 | They also descend into the deeper caverns to search for the wild and exotic funguses which they use to make powerful magic potions . |
| 21 | The usual reason given for the Jewish and Moslem strictures against eating pork is that they began a public health measures , to prevent pork-borne diseases such as trichinosis . |
| 22 | That should go to the rescue workers who took great risks to bring out survivors , the skill of the medical teams and the love expressed by those who cared for the injured and bereaved . |
| 23 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 24 | The only orders for new diesel locomotives placed during the 1970s and 1980s , were for locomotives designed specifically to haul freight . |
| 25 | We have explored a general , if somewhat schematic , framework which allows us to analyse rather than simply describe what undergraduates are taught during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 26 | The variation in the popularity of fixed interest financing between the sixties and the seventies may be explained by changes in the tax environment and the levels of inflation experienced during the 1970s : |
| 27 | A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry . |
| 28 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 29 | In any given week on the average stand of a local newspaper shop there is a choice of dozens of magazines directly aimed at women readers from Cosmopolitan , catering for the fashionable and liberated career woman to Women 5 Weekly for the perhaps more satisfied housewife . |
| 30 | Employees change for the better when they work in the community . |