Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the initial investigation had revealed that there was some potential for the use of a computer to support the primary functions ( ie identifying and meeting resident needs ) , which in addition could be used to support other tasks , such as processing financial transactions and records . |
| 2 | Try to depart from your model trial just sufficiently to prevent counsel using the same speeches and the same questions to witnesses . |
| 3 | A perspective of well working markets ( therefore the need for minimal government intervention ) and a balanced budget make the competing schools of thought more attractive to this group . |
| 4 | Motorists with private transport who have come over the Klausen Pass road may wish to return by the same route to see the opposite angles of view . |
| 5 | In recent years , the school has seen major changes with the enlargement and modernisation of the building to accommodate the extra children from nearby Froyle , following the closure of the school there in 1986 . |
| 6 | Four bars leading up to the chorus using the same notes as before , but a more basic pattern and an octave down , until the chorus comes in loud and heavy , a complete contrast with its barrages of driving sixteenth notes . |
| 7 | Co-ordination , if it is to take place at all , is also most likely to be instigated by the clearinghouses ; but ideally it ought to take place between the library associations , if for no other reason than that they can provide financial support to arrange the necessary meetings of coordinating committees . |
| 8 | Draw a pie chart using the following figures : |
| 9 | ‘ Ethical ’ is to be preferred to ‘ moral ’ because to speak of ‘ moral positivism ’ implies that the role of law is simply to apply the moral rules of society , whereas the theory is that law deals with conflict in a way which at least in part transcends the moral disagreements endemic in societies of men or of nations . |
| 10 | Walk along the landscaped towpath to see the seven locks , two aqueducts , four bridges and canal basins at Aberdulais and Resolven . |
| 11 | The main purpose of the discussion is to establish that parents understand behaviour good and bad is learned , that children can be ‘ untaught ’ the bad and taught the good , and that it is the parents who do the teaching using the simple methods and techniques you have demonstrated . |
| 12 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 13 | This description fits the observable characteristics and progress of the disease , although it might be more appropriate to substitute the social term " " sensitivity " " for the strictly clinical term " allergy " . |
| 14 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 15 | A. P. Herbert was not the only writer to spot the comic possibilities . |
| 16 | This clone revealed the ND4-ND4L transcripts ( 1700n . ) . |
| 17 | This decision divided the independent types from the gregarious ; some thoroughly enjoyed staying at the hostel for years : |
| 18 | To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing . |
| 19 | Cos it comprises a checklist encompassing the major requirements necessary to complete and the project and it helps to identify the processes involved , and the stage to which are to be taken , for the s for the successful completion of the project . |
| 20 | Mr. Malone referred to the work the government was doing with the Ministry of Defence to support the declining armaments industry . |
| 21 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 22 | This is only the second time that the House has been given an opportunity to debate the momentous consequences of the closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 23 | The blue eyes were cold and watchful as he lounged casually in front of her , the thin sea island cotton shirt allowing the darker hairs on his chest to show through . |
| 24 | Nonetheless these friends will be aware that the sufferer ultimately has to make his or her own way back to recovery and that " helpful " actions should not serve to enable the sufferer to continue the recovery-threatening attitudes or behaviour without organising his or her own responsibility for the consequences . |
| 25 | It 's a striking contrast to see the sullen faces in our streets . |
| 26 | ‘ A steward had his head cut through being struck , it is believed , with a spanner , ’ the Times correspondent wrote , ‘ The chairman read the Public Meetings Act 1908 in the presence of a large number of police . |
| 27 | A computer separates the different colours . |
| 28 | When considering whether the Revolution should be seen as a victory for Whig principles or not , historians have tended to take a constitutional frame of reference — the more a particular historian believes the Revolution settlement limited the constitutional powers of the Crown , then the more Whiggish the Revolution is said to be . |
| 29 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 30 | It was seen as the most ‘ natural ’ division given the separate roles of men and women in society . |