Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 2 | Americans and Russians sought to outflank the great European shipping routes . |
| 3 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 4 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 5 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 6 | It was very noticeable , particularly in England and Wales , that the ATB had in many cases failed to convince the older farmer of the benefits of training . |
| 7 | Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises . |
| 8 | Visitors saw that same orientation in the recent retrospective of the work of Biennial-alumnus Jean-Michel Basquiat , for which seven catalogue essays sought to transform the profligate drug addict from a middle-class home into a spokesman for the oppressed . |
| 9 | The ambivalences generated for many white youth by the attractions of Afro-Caribbean , Afro-American and African musical forms , and their admirations for some aggressive forms of Afro-Caribbean masculinity , have resulted in alliances in particular schools and neighbourhoods between white and Afro Caribbean youth against Asian youth , while in some schools where black white conflicts remain submerged the dominant form of racist insult occurs between different ethnic minority groups , for instance Asian and Afro-Caribbean or Cypriot and Vietnamese ( Cohen , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Proposals intended to benefit the rural economy will normally be supported provided that they would not unacceptably detract from the character and appearance and general amenity of the surrounding area . |
| 11 | Surgeons battled in vain for ten hours to try to save the 32-year-old National Clubman 's 250cc champion from Syston , Leics . |
| 12 | Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country . |
| 13 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 14 | THE bloodshed in the Baltic states has polarised the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | The novel Romance can almost be read as a series of definitions designed to emphasise the elusive , personal nature of the word . |
| 16 | If these so-called rugby experts want to relive the monotonous and tedious forward battles that culminated in England 's Grand Slam then they can keep their memories . |
| 17 | For example , some Health Authorities tried to obstruct the competitive tendering process for ancillary services . |
| 18 | The tone of the debate was set by Home Secretary William Whitelaw 's introductory statement in which he spoke of ( a ) the need to ‘ remove the scourge of criminal violence from our streets ’ , and ( b ) the urgency of developing ‘ policies designed to promote the mutual tolerance and understanding upon which the whole future of a free democratic society depends ’ ( Hansard , vol. 8 , 16 July 1981 : col. 1405 ) . |
| 19 | Policies designed to increase the added-value content of natural resource exports have taken different forms , depending on the nature of the world market . |
| 20 | British proposals helped to shape the key provisions of the Treaty , including those strengthening the enforcement of Community law , defence , subsidiarity and law and order . |
| 21 | He knows of my attempts to try to understand the so-called ’ Irish issue ’ . |
| 22 | " In this context , the European Council notes that in the near future several governments intend to submit specific multi-annual programmes designed to secure the requisite progress on convergence [ see also p. 38201 ] … |
| 23 | Much of the literature on the non-equivalence between these trade policies has considered the polar cases of monopoly and perfect competition ( for review see Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ The artists resolved to hold the Sarajevan Festival of the Arts , which was first held in 1984 at the Winter Olympics , as a gesture towards civilised life and civic identity . |
| 25 | Apart from providing important evidence about the relationship between resources and performance in higher education , the demonstration of stable between-area assessment patterns has enabled the Modular Course to successively nudge each area into modifications of assessment practice which gradually bring them closer together . |
| 26 | In particular they have been seen as a system of colonization , and as institutions designed to ensure the military dominance of Israel over the indigenous Palestinian population . |
| 27 | Drake Educational Associates has appointed the following representatives : Kent , East Sussex — Pamela Teague , South Winds , ( ) ; Beds , Bucks , Berks , Oxon , Herts and Northants — Deborah Newling , ( ) ; Staffs , Salop , Worcs , Warks , West Midlands — Fiona Boyle Wolverhampton , West Midlands , Cambridgeshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Essex — Stan Carter ( ) . |
| 28 | The purpose is to evaluate different strategies designed to achieve the appropriate dietary change within the framework of existing food production , processing and marketing industries . |
| 29 | However , an exception provides that recognition will not expire solely because the death of a shareholder or shareholders has left the recognised body with no shareholder able to exercise such voting rights . |
| 30 | Hills 's visit to Tokyo was described by observers as a precursor to a second round of talks known as the Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) — a series of theoretical discussions designed to change the broad economic characteristics responsible for the USA 's huge trade deficit with Japan [ for September 1989 SII talks see p. 36892 ] . |