Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support . |
| 2 | The appearance of a weaning-trauma in early agricultural cultures explains the paradox of why it is that a loss of the ideal mother — that is , a frustration — leads to an over-involvement with her . |
| 3 | A generous selection of auxiliary products support the range , including Gloss and Matt Mediums , a Gel Medium , an Acrylic Retarder to increase the working time of the colours , Gloss and Matt Acrylic Gesso Primer . |
| 4 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 5 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 6 | Strong fingers snapped the catch at his waist , pulled the zip , tightened the leather belt above the sculpted curve of masculine hip . |
| 7 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 8 | I fetched a bag of ice and a bowl from the kitchen , swayed back to the bar and in due course took the bowl of ice ( on a tray ) to the saloon . |
| 9 | The Goldsmiths deliberated , and in due course authorized the expenditure . |
| 10 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |
| 11 | In other words , I will in due course adopt the child . |
| 12 | The House will in due course consider the report . |
| 13 | It was this development and in particular the evidence given at the Ro-Ro inquiry which in due course prompted the council to bring the present proceedings . |
| 14 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 15 | Oh , and finally , might it be an idea for a political writer to do the interview ? |
| 16 | The dry part contains the salt and various trace elements , plus a dechlorinator . |
| 17 | If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure . |
| 18 | Thus , if the monetary authorities increased the money supply , the whole of the increase would be added to speculative balances and the interest rate would remain unchanged . |
| 19 | Recognising that consent must be based on a true appreciation of contents , this proposal reveals a strange inability to grasp the extent to which a work of art can rarely if ever be described or paraphrased with perfect accuracy . |
| 20 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 21 | A breakdown of the figures shows 14 per cent of women in professional groups exceed the limit , compared with six per cent of female unskilled workers . |
| 22 | The parsing algorithm specifies the manner in which lexical information is to be retrieved , which grammar rules are to be applied to the input and how the information obtained is to be stored . |
| 23 | Communication in science can take place at different levels of complexity or integration of informational elements ; data transfer is the most basic level , comprising the exchange of information on fundamental parameters , such as numerical or analytical data ; the descriptive level involves the transfer of data in a descriptive context ; and at the idea transfer level , deductions , interpretations and predictions are made from data and descriptions earlier acquired , and from background knowledge and experience . |
| 24 | Telford is also seeking European funding to investigate the application of new technology in the delivery of modules in English as a Foreign Language . |
| 25 | Such uninformed views do the industry a disservice . |
| 26 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 27 | But in the last days of 1879 a frightful storm blew the bridge down as a train was crossing , and 75 more people lost their lives . |
| 28 | Combined operations became the commando 's métier and he would become as accustomed to calling up a battleship 's gunnery officer or the leader of a flight of rocket firing Typhoon aircraft as he might be radioing for mortar fire from his own Heavy Weapons Troop . |
| 29 | You just point the car in the right direction press the pedal and you 're there . |
| 30 | On Dec. 15 the Israeli authorities ordered the expulsion of four middle-ranking members of Hamas from the Gaza Strip . |