Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA . |
| 2 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 3 | ‘ Nate and the Executive Committee have agreed in principle to phase-out all regional activities and bring the whole god-damned shootin' match right back here to Detroit , where I always said it should be . ’ |
| 4 | In the United States the Anti-Trust laws have been used to break up existing private monopolies and prevent the formation of new monopolies through mergers of existing companies . |
| 5 | It 's a story which should inspire all Merseyside 's Labour supporters and ensure the Tories do not become complacent . |
| 6 | People stopped private cars and put the dead and injured in their boots . |
| 7 | The fund manager can make currency gains by holding strong currencies and protect the fund from weak currencies through a process known as ‘ hedging ’ . |
| 8 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 9 | In the area of social help and rehabilitation a variety of clubs can also help both the mentally handicapped and the mentally ill to make social contacts and gain the confidence to reintegrate themselves into society . |
| 10 | The study suggests that leadership and incentives from government , housebuilders , appliance manufacturers and the power industries are needed to transform public attitudes and protect the environment . |
| 11 | The aim of the project is three-fold : 1 To survey public attitudes and assess the general pattern of opinion about alternative energy sources , and to locate opinion on the specific projects within this spectrum ; 2 To stimulate discussion , formal and informal , on the role of renewable resources , locally and nationally , within the context of a range of options available to form an energy policy ; and 3 To promote local discussion about the pros and cons of proposed technological innovations , which will have a local economic , social and ( or ) visual effect on the local environment . |
| 12 | This joint ESRC/CNRS project between the Centre for Applied Statistics and the Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilit'es , Universit'e Paul Sabatier , Toulouse , also aims to improve communication between British and French statisticians and prevent the further entrenchment of their ideas . |
| 13 | Linguists , psychologists and AI workers have theories about what procedures might select the right sense on the basis of sensible rules and reject the wrong one . |
| 14 | Buy both a good , clear pair of binoculars , a clearly illustrated field guide to British birds and join the RSPB . |
| 15 | Lévi-Strauss sought to demonstrate that similar oppositions operate in kinship and mythic systems enabling him to compare apparently unlike kinship systems and myths from different cultures and show the structural continuity of mythemes , and kin relationships , across what are , at first sight , very different cultures . |
| 16 | I have a great weakness for fresh herbs and love the scent of basil and tarragon . |
| 17 | Once the stretcher rails are together , loosely locate them in the back legs and drive the legs home into the seat and the rails into the legs . |
| 18 | President Mitterrand 's government ( which has still to finalise its IT plans after more than 18 months ' deliberation ) will , so it says , build on French strengths and remedy the weaknesses . |
| 19 | Try different methods and use the one which works best for you . |
| 20 | The trio kept the 3.5 litre Peugeot 905 ahead f or most of the rain-hit race to delight the flag-waving local and British fans and confound the critics who predicted the car could not stay the distance . |
| 21 | They tend to restrict the causes of criminality to hereditary characteristics and overlook the effects of environmental influences and cultural traditions . |
| 22 | The process by which we acquire the culture of the society into which we are born — the process by which we acquire our social characteristics and learn the ways of thought and behaviour considered appropriate in our society — is called socialisation . |
| 23 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 24 | Volunteers are being asked to visit residential homes and befriend the people who stay there . |
| 25 | Alternatively , it may be considered appropriate to make a series of short recordings in different settings and compare the results . |
| 26 | Park and sail in the designated areas and respect the other beach users , otherwise you could cause terrible problems for the local windsurfing community . |
| 27 | Divide the batter between the prepared tins and bake the sandwich tins for 25 — 30 minutes , the large cake tin for 40 — 45 minutes . |
| 28 | Or will it be so difficult to interpret , so rigid in its framework that there is no room for the teacher to try interesting diversions and take the opportunity for exploration of unmapped territory — even of contributing to the design of the map itself ? |
| 29 | A series of complementary modules has been identified and these introduce more specialised areas and provide the opportunity to further expand the key skills embedded within the core modules . |
| 30 | Managers need to be aware of these different needs and recognise the stage at which individuals have reached in the satisfaction of their needs . |