Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Socially the target of Scottish Homes to diversify the rented sector and encourage community regeneration has also been achieved . |
| 2 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 3 | I recently met the Japanese Keidanren when they visited this country , and I reassured them that the Government continue to welcome and support Japanese investment in this country . |
| 4 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 5 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | The confidentiality claim met the same fate as the other arguments . |
| 7 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 8 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 9 | I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village . |
| 10 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 11 | First , such a model assumes a static population-that is , it neglects the obvious fact that new generations of school ( the age group where use tends to begin ) are constantly emerging . |
| 12 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 13 | For all his efforts , he lacked the final touch and in the 65th minute he glanced his header wide from Holloway 's cross . |
| 14 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 15 | Three weeks later , at a time when the imperialist war thesis was very much in the ascendency , he was more specific : The French communists lacked the necessary cynicism and the capacity for political deception that would have been required to gain the maximum benefit from a dangerous diplomatic operation . |
| 16 | Both men 's views in the inter-war period were highly subjective and embittered ; both lacked the necessary detachment and sense of objective hindsight to bring the experience into proper perspective . |
| 17 | However , these were generally riskier and since many savers lacked the necessary information and confidence to invest overseas , it seemed a natural role for investment trusts that they should provide an indirect route into overseas markets for small investors who would benefit from the trust 's professional management . |
| 18 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 19 | The issue lacked the clear-headed analysis that I have come to expect from NI . |
| 20 | Might proliferation occur because the cells in question lacked the essential material and got out of control ? |
| 21 | Success was not automatic , since the country lacked the economic base and domestic resources of France and West Germany , let alone the USA or Japan . |
| 22 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |
| 23 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 24 | This form of aggression , if not leading to an outright kill , can easily stress the attacked coral or anemone and cause them to bleach and eventually die . |
| 25 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 26 | Does a government of the left , for example , produce policy outcomes which favour the working class and organized labour , and shift power from the private to the state sector ? |
| 27 | Catholic insecurity merged with the understandable fears of the wealthy , especially in the countryside , that the Republic would threaten landed property and in general favour the working class and peasantry over the employers and large landowners . |
| 28 | The authors believe the cause of these persistent spells lies in the ability of the short waves to react on the long waves in such a way that , under certain situations , they favour the very pattern that caused them . |
| 29 | The solid curve in Fig. 8.5 is the GR prediction and fits the changing delay as Venus moves through superior conjunction extremely well . |
| 30 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |