Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 2 | Major pharmaceutical companies often did not have the multi-disciplinary expertise to develop the necessary products and processes and Chiros was collaborating with several of them , Richards said . |
| 3 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 4 | These allowances , plus a few others , are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income . |
| 5 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 6 | Each day 's meals have been put together by nutritional experts to provide the right foods in the right proportion and this includes proteins , fats , fibre , vitamins and minerals . |
| 7 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 8 | We organise excursions as part of our courses and participants have ample opportunity to meet the hospitable local people and practise Spanish . |
| 9 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 10 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 11 | ‘ It should not only be retained but given the go-ahead for further development , involving new advanced PWRs to replace the aging Magnoxes . |
| 12 | When the diagnosis of the illness is made , think around your clients and your relatives , because that opportunity to generate the financial security and the friends you need , is threatened by the guilt . |
| 13 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |
| 14 | It can also be a tool of social and economic policies to help the aged , the homeless , single-parent families and the handicapped to obtain housing , as well as to provide flexibility in the attraction of key workers . |
| 15 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 16 | This was encouraged by governments and energy agencies , keen for both strategic , economic and political reasons to reduce the heavy dependence on a fuel where the bulk of reserves are concentrated in the Middle East , in the hands of a cartel awaiting only a tightening of supply to raise prices to 1979 levels and possibly above . |
| 17 | At the Montaigne until 18 July , Marie-Jo Lafontaine , one of the first European artists to explore the aesthetic potential of video imagery , is showing two groups of works polyptychs , monochromes and , of course , videos entitled ‘ We are all shadows ’ and ‘ Tout ange est terrible ’ . |
| 18 | I would capture a fresh wasp that afternoon to use the following morning . |
| 19 | It is a refreshing experience to follow the hon. Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) and I hope that the level of debate on the European Community that we have attained today will be reflected in our two-day debate on 20 and 21 November . |
| 20 | For those weary of collecting paintings or objets d'art , this dispersal of the John Willett Collection of African Ungulates offers that long-awaited opportunity to purchase the complete skeleton of Megaceros Hibernicus ( est. £30,000–40,000 ; $15,500–20,700 ) . |
| 21 | It 's a striking contrast to see the sullen faces in our streets . |
| 22 | Widespread BIFs , such as those of the Hamersley Basin in Australia , would seem to have required massive and persistent microbial blooms to yield the tremendous quantity and uniformity of iron deposition within the basin . |
| 23 | The TRANSAID team will write the outline documents and then get a professional writer to produce the final manual . |
| 24 | British fascism was born of the failure of economic conservatism to check the rapid decline of Britain in the inter-war years . |
| 25 | Secondly , the DTB system was born out of the political necessity to involve the small regional stock exchanges in Germany . |
| 26 | The medical , legal and local government discipline should have the facilities to enable their potentially bilingual students to study for at least an additional term in order to enhance their language and cultural knowledge to a defined level and to extend their professional expertise to accommodate the main different professional dimensions — such as Islamic matrimonial law and sickle cell anaemia . |
| 27 | Because Lysenko , a crackpot geneticist , was the modern pioneer of bending scientific data and bashing professional opponents to suit the reigning political preference — not unlike the EPA administrators who dealt with dioxin contamination by re-writing the reports and intimidating their various authors , Lysenko was so preeminent in this process that common English usage has accorded him an eponymous distinction : ‘ Lysenkoism ’ is now the accepted term for politically enforced manipulation of scientific truth . |
| 28 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 29 | He should have made birdie ; he had the greatest opportunity to win the Open . |
| 30 | 2 × 40 minute Video Cassettes , divided into a total of 8 episodes , with a review section at the end of each episode to reinforce the essential language points |