Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 2 | Referrals to private clinics decreased among the fundholders , also contrary to expectations . |
| 3 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 4 | Most commercially exploited minerals in Britain tend to be in the older geological strata located in the more remote western and upland regions , while sand and gravel occur in coastal or valley sites or in glacial deposits , particularly in the south and east of England . |
| 5 | Far-reaching proposals published by the NRA call on the government to set legally-binding quality standards for not only rivers , estuaries and canals but lakes , groundwaters and coastal stretches . |
| 6 | Because complete spindles come under the precision range of products . |
| 7 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 8 | IF THE promises are kept , the fourth Conservative term will see private operators competing on the railway network , a huge road-building programme to ease congestion and further moves to increase choice for airline passengers , all underscored by a commitment to transport safety . |
| 9 | We oppose the privatisation of British Rail , but will allow private operators access to the rail network , while giving BR the freedom to raise investment capital on the open market . |
| 10 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 11 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 12 | The formulation of inductive generalizations ( using algebraic notation ) , or the application of rules to a new context , are more specific meanings attached to the term . |
| 13 | Under managed floating , the domestic monetary authorities intervene in the foreign exchange markets to smooth out excessive short-term fluctuations in the exchange rate . |
| 14 | Dynamical variables , such as energy , momentum and position , have been successfully introduced into the formalism as hermitean operators acting on the vector space of the states of motion . |
| 15 | The associative data is extracted from the INSERT PARTS command , and the spatial data from the digitized coordinates and the inserted part 's drawing file , which is a structured set of work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files held in the CAD data base ( this is fully explained in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | If the essential educational standard or technical skills required by the job/personnel specification are not there then the candidate can be quickly rejected . |
| 17 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 18 | A body of representative groups headed by the Soil Association believes that it is possible to turn 20 per cent of Britain 's farming organic by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 20 | Particular attention is given to the provision of financial services for industrial development and agrarian improvement ; the extent of movement into and out of Edinburgh ; the social structure and occupational zoning within Edinburgh ; demographic change ; the role of the law and of secular and ecclesiastical institutions in helping or hindering change ; the nature of social relationships within the town and the extent to which new and more progressive values existed in the city . |
| 21 | By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression . |
| 22 | Volume was measured separately for each outstanding futures contract by the number of contracts traded during the day . |
| 23 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 24 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 25 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 26 | This suggests that one priority is a general initial training supplemented by training in more specific skills relating to the presenting difficulties of the children being supported . |
| 27 | Classic bathrooms inspired by the great ages of design . |
| 28 | The former are haphazard non-deliberate operations conducted at the shelves and the latter is a structured intentional activity carried out with the assistance of a bibliographic tool . |
| 29 | In the late 1970s , two budgets that were potentially important in urban economic development were the regional programmes implemented by the Department of Industry , and the policies effected by the National Enterprise Board . |
| 30 | Studies of benthic foraminifera ( sensitive indicators of oxygenation ) through the laminated intervals show no evidence for any increase in species characteristic of a low oxygen environment , but rather a decrease in tapered cylindrical and infaunal forms attesting to the impenetrability of the meshwork . |