Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 2 | Not that a girl would ever be allowed to touch the great hammers or take the white-hot metal from the furnace with the giant tongs . |
| 3 | On each campus , there is a designated member of Student Services staff who can assist with any queries or put the overseas student in touch with an appropriate source of help . |
| 4 | On each campus , there is a designated member of Student Services staff who can assist with any queries or put the overseas student in touch with an appropriate source of help . |
| 5 | This level is probably sufficient to cause clinical disease in susceptible adult animals or to upset the normal functioning of the gastric mucosa in immune cows . |
| 6 | No one else in the world has had your experience of life , sees the world through your eyes or treads the same path through life ‘ towards the light of your particular guiding star ’ ( this is described in a rather dull way as ‘ motivation ’ ) . |
| 7 | The ‘ general interest ’ post would be in environmental sectors or helping the poor , old and disabled . |
| 8 | They ca n't register their children at schools or use the Mexican health system for fear of detection . |
| 9 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 10 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 11 | He was never recognised officially , principally because of the painful sincerity of songs that portray the lowest depths of spiritual and material Russia . |
| 12 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 13 | She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life . |
| 14 | Dr David Kessler , commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration said that his agency , the Environmental Protection Agency , and the Department of Agriculture will for the first time make a concerted effort to ‘ create incentives for the development of safe pesticides and to remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk ’ . |
| 15 | The announcement , by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture , will " create incentives for the development of safe pesticides " and " remove those pesticides that pose the greatest risk to health , " according to food and drugs commissioner David Kessler . |
| 16 | Here the pulses are converted into signals that provide the directional information , just as with a conventional switch type joys tick . |
| 17 | What makes the Khmer Rouge so strong is its vision for Cambodia , which is pure , radically nationalistic and free of the corruption , petty power struggles and personal jealousies that bedevil the other two resistance factions and the Hun Sen government in Phnom Penh . |
| 18 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 19 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 20 | The figure in the painting spoke of the human spirit and looked out at the world with a serene timelessness , and eyes that knew the great gift of being a master and an artist . |
| 21 | He is a 60-year-old man with humorous eyes that belie the apparent strictness of his manner . |
| 22 | And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve . |
| 23 | In addition , the International M&A Network has prepared further guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( see the handbook ) . |
| 24 | In addition , the International M&A network has prepared additional guidelines that address the particular circumstances of cross-border engagements ( contained in the UK handbook ) . |
| 25 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 26 | But they took no notice and jacked her out anyway , and the hospital was crammed with the odour of disinfectant and medicines and mechanical solidities that drove the pretty meanings away . |
| 27 | Growth continued to create shortages that expanded the black market . |
| 28 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 29 | These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women . |
| 30 | None the less , the trustees were able to raise more than £70,000 towards the repairs of the church , funds that unlocked the crucial support from English Heritage and the National Heritage Memorial Fund . |