Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus quite difficult to ; distinguish the various princes of the family of Augustus . |
| 2 | If uniforms distinguish the different grades of nursing and domestic staff , then this is useful information for the nurse to communicate to the patient . |
| 3 | There are also systems ( e.g. in Australian and New Guinea languages ) that distinguish the three dimensions of space , having demonstratives that gloss as " the one above the speaker " , " the one below the speaker " , " the one level with the speaker " as well as distinguishing relative distance from participants ( see e.g. Dixon , 1972 : 262ff re Dyirbal ) . |
| 4 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 5 | The nature of the economic system and the conflicts within it influence the changing rules of the game . |
| 6 | Advocacy schemes focus on the rights , entitlements and choices of individuals , but they do not generally much influence the wider issues of the way services are planned , shaped and managed . |
| 7 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 8 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 9 | The country 's six largest construction companies , which together spend between $14 million and $16 million a year on earthquake research , met the extra costs of including base isolation in the structures . |
| 10 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 11 | President Blaise Compaore met the general secretaries of 42 political groupings on Jan. 7 for discussions preliminary to convening of a National Reconciliation Forum . |
| 12 | Rising from his kneeling position , Chuck met the anxious eyes of the others grouped around him . |
| 13 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 14 | They both looked round , and met the startled eyes of Mrs Pigdon , the landlady . |
| 15 | Of the half million tests carried out for regulatory purposes in the year up to June 30 , 1989 , we are pleased to report that 998 out of 1,000 met the strict specifications of the European Community Directive . |
| 16 | There were n't any wolf-whistles but the sudden silence that greeted her appearance in the archway brought a rueful tilt to her lips as she gently raised her eyebrows until her eyes met the disconcerted ones of the team manager . |
| 17 | Integration is viewed in physical terms ; policy increasingly concentrates on people but neglects the true characteristics of people in favour of resources-led practice . |
| 18 | Their conservative streak by-passed the crumbling pillars of the establishment . |
| 19 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 20 | Frequently , too , such people have been blessed with the ‘ sixth sense ’ , their quiet mind automatically transmitting the hungry intentions of a hidden tiger for example , for all creatures are linked at the level of the mind , as well as soul . |
| 21 | First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users . |
| 22 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 23 | For the past two years , although he lacked the metropolitan powers of an archbishop , he had been fully responsible for maintaining the possessions and privileges of Christ Church , Canterbury . |
| 24 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 25 | In some areas — notably labour relations policy — Citrine was able successfully to keep the mandarins and ministers at bay , but he lacked the independent powers of the old CEB to say a straight ‘ no ’ in the last resort on a point on which the Minister had strong feelings . |
| 26 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 27 | It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms . |
| 28 | No one ( thank God ! ) says sex must stop and comparatively few favour the wilder flights of permissive fantasy . |
| 29 | The outlook for Japan 's computer firms is made brighter by several major changes in the way the machines are sold which favour the existing strengths of its computer industry . |
| 30 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |