Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has dumbfounded the British troops is the antagonism of the Croatian forces to their presence . |
| 2 | To say that church schools hinder the ecumenical movement is a nonsense . |
| 3 | In the past levels around Stow on the Wold have climbed above that — now Thames Water belive the new supply is one of the cleanest in the world . |
| 4 | In tropical countries the importance of maintaining the cold chain is recognised , but in temperate countries it has been given little attention until recently . |
| 5 | All this means that building the temporal city is not simply a stage of ‘ humanisation ’ or ‘ pre-evangelisation ’ as was held up until a few years ago . |
| 6 | But the job of actually building the information-based organization is still ahead of us — it is the managerial challenge of the future . |
| 7 | Stephen Taylor , the consultancy 's chairman , says : ‘ The problem with building the empowered organisation is that it can not be done by the methods of the command organisation . |
| 8 | It often involves the modern mind 's entering into old concepts for which there is no modern equivalent . |
| 9 | While disinfecting the soiled area is obviously to be recommended , you need to be careful in your choice of disinfectant . |
| 10 | Reports indicated that the USA had sharply criticized the Soviet Union 's July 23 application for full membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , claiming that the offer of " special association " with the IMF , offered at the recent G-7 summit [ see p. 38322 ] was sufficient pending a comprehensive programme of economic liberalization . |
| 11 | The latest soul to hit the big screen is the unfortunate Derek Bentley , the mentally subnormal nineteen-year-old who was hanged in 1952 for the Croydon warehouse murder — a murder committed by ; his companion , sixteen-year-old Christopher Craig , who was too young to swing . |
| 12 | The best weather to preserve the finished picture is warm and damp . |
| 13 | I stress the Irish squad is probable |
| 14 | As we said earlier , one benefit of using the UV technique is that all artwork can be retained for future use , perhaps being modified if necessary . |
| 15 | It is stating the obvious , but regular measurement of blood pressure using the correct technique is an essential feature of good diabetic care . |
| 16 | Data of dependent groups ( antral gastric and second portion duodenum in the same patient with duodenal ulcer ) were compared using the paired Student 's t test . |
| 17 | The advantage of using the OSCLI command is that you can use a variable for the file name and the command does not need to be the last ( or only ) one on a line . |
| 18 | The first step in using the offline system is to tell LIFESPAN about the kinds of media to be used . |
| 19 | Using the local area is particularly important at primary level , for instance . |
| 20 | It may however be helpful madam speaker , er Madam Deputy Speaker , if I seek to clarify er when an individual auditor is operating in his capacity as such and whether a partner in an auditing practice who is not involved in audin er in auditing the regulated institutions is deemed nevertheless to be operating in his capacity as auditor . |
| 21 | But he has become increasingly frustrated the 26-year-old forward is being overlooked by his country . |
| 22 | The source of the effect seen in subjects given the S1-S2 treatment is accordingly difficult to interpret . |
| 23 | The key to enjoying the martial arts is perseverance . |
| 24 | In the demand drawing the broken line is pushed to a different level instead of being drawn to it . |
| 25 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 26 | Well it 's one who spoils the bloody party is n't he ? |
| 27 | Course officials fear the seized batch is n't the end of the story . |
| 28 | The number of mules necessary to carry the said ores is supposed to be from 25 to 30 . |
| 29 | This demonstrates that the combination of ‘ amenities ’ which constitutes the rural environment is what Fred Hirsch , in his book The Social Limits to Growth , calls a ‘ positional good ’ — that is , something which is fixed in supply and whose consumption is dependent upon one 's position in society . |
| 30 | The assumption that one 's own experience , one 's own gender , one 's own society , constitutes the sole reality is in fact the very antithesis of the whole concept of any anthropology . |