Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission , headed by the historian Vojtech Mencl , would analyse the reason for the entry of troops and evaluate political developments in the country in the period to 1970 , requesting relevant material from the five Warsaw Pact countries involved . |
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| 3 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that it is in the discount market that the authorities conduct those operations which they hope will influence monetary conditions in the economy . |
| 5 | Because every individual is different XYZ Foods do not make specific claims about the amount of weight loss to expect , but most people will lose three pounds or more . |
| 6 | Where the English language does make specific references to the female , it often has derogatory implications . |
| 7 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 8 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 9 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 10 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 11 | Although the centre of gravity in Tudor and Stuart England stayed in the more open Midlands and East Anglia , the fringe counties produced strong variations to the general stability and prosperity of these two centuries . |
| 12 | The morning after the general 's briefing , Iraq brought its latent air capability out of hiding , and tried to hit allied warships in the Gulf . |
| 13 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 14 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 15 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 16 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 17 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 18 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 19 | The single judge may review decisions of the Registrar and make interim orders outside the Law Terms . |
| 20 | The government remained reluctant to implement political reforms along the lines suggested by Soviet President Gorbachev , however , preferring to maintain its traditional Marxist-Leninist model of development . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the shareholders as the principal were entitled to issue specific instructions to the directors which as agents they were obliged to implement . |
| 22 | It is possible to climb the circular stairs to enjoy far-reaching views from the towers and battlements . |
| 23 | He said that the PLO would call on all Arab states to implement economic sanctions against the USA . |
| 24 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 25 | The doctors made monoclonal antibodies against the attacking white cells in the transfused blood and Bryan 's parents agreed to try the treatment in a desperate attempt to save him . |
| 26 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 27 | This seems unfortunate since pre-emptive rights are particularly needed in relation to those private companies which are essentially incorporated partnerships and it is difficult to see why , here , the Act could not have treated private companies in the same way as public ones . |
| 28 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 29 | And for the stories coming up next , as they say , I understand that Good Morning Britain is hoping to better its big cat tale by reporting on wild parakeets in Maidstone , and cats that eat indoor plants throughout the country . |
| 30 | The development of ‘ platform-independent ’ software for databases , knowledge-based systems , and hypertext , offers possible solutions to the storage problems , but the interface problems , being subjective , may be much harder to solve . |