Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It should not only be retained but given the go-ahead for further development , involving new advanced PWRs to replace the aging Magnoxes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I wish he could use his Saudi influences to prevent the barbaric practice of decapitation of human beings which takes place every Friday in the square at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 12 | It had taken their combined savings to make the down payment on a house in overcrowded Tollemarche and Isobel had declared that she could manage without a car . |
| 13 | It is , he argues , not at all clear how you raise private savings to close the other kind of gap . |
| 14 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 15 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 16 | At the same time we determined Ac-5-ASA concentrations to evaluate the mucosal acetylation . |
| 17 | Moreover , some attempts to adapt the National Curriculum to meet the needs of children who experience difficulties in learning render the system even more rigid . |
| 18 | Fourth , I will describe how the organisation of the curriculum into arbitrary hierarchies is compounded by some attempts to make the National Curriculum accessible to all pupils . |
| 19 | To force the Scottish Estates to acknowledge the Hanoverian right of succession , the English authorities banned the sale of Scottish cattle and other products in England as part of a programme of arm-twisting economic sanctions , and threatened to treat all Scots as aliens unless they toed the line . |
| 20 | In 1870 the PLB had also , rather grudgingly , allowed some Guardians to adopt the Scottish practice of ‘ boarding out ’ ( fostering , in modern terms ) pauper children with working-class families , sometimes their own relatives . |
| 21 | In 1762 he was involved in the clash between moderate and evangelical factions over appointments of clergy to Edinburgh charges , and his well-meaning attempts to secure the best qualified candidates and to appease all sides provoked further animosity over civil and judicial promotions . |
| 22 | When this is not the case there will almost certainly , however , be periodic attempts to reconcile the two sets of accounts , by comparing the profit shown in the financial accounts with that revealed in the cost accounts . |
| 23 | She was a founder member , the only woman from another Swiss woman artist , Mary Moser , of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768 in order to advance the professional careers and inspire the ambition of British artists to emulate the Italian artists of the Renaissance in the recreation of the Grand Style . |
| 24 | Before starting the study , pressures were recorded for 30 minutes to check the correct functioning of the recording system and to allow the subjects to accommodate to the catheters . |
| 25 | He stirs a band of brave knights to tackle the rising army of the dead , who are in pursuit of an ancient book of runes and magic spells . |
| 26 | However , fresh proposals to amend the existing rent policy were put to the Bar Council in March . |
| 27 | Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class . |
| 28 | For my part , I think it would be open to the English courts to apply the civil law maxim directly to the situations we have in these two appeals , and treat the two plaintiffs as lives in being at the times of the events which injured them as they were later born alive , but it is not necessary to do so directly in view of the effect which the Montreal Tramways case [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 has already had in the development of the common law in this field in other common law jurisdictions . |
| 29 | Taking minor ‘ tank ’ irrigation in Tamil Nadu as a case , the principle aims of the research are twofold : firstly , through historical research to understand the social and cultural systems which have sustained collective water management in the past and identify the socio-economic and demographic factors associated with their decline ; and secondly , through the comparative study of on-going programmes to suggest the necessary conditions for successful establishment of systems of community resource management in the present day social context . |
| 30 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |