Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to see what sense there is in , for example , assuming that individuals without a car ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 2 | Rationing of sweets , like food and clothing , was continued for several years after the war was over , and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed . |
| 3 | The fascination with functions of the body , the analogies between artistic and physical creative processes , self-portraiture used to reveal the female body as the site of patriarchal aesthetic discourse ; all of these mirror the concerns of many women painters of the 1980s . |
| 4 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 5 | It is conventional to use twice the median of the absolute values of the modified residuals as the length of the vertical bar used to blur the smooth . |
| 6 | The mass picketing of Orgreave — a tactic used to discourage the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ) from increasing its daily supplies of coke to its Scunthorpe steel works above a quota already agreed with the miners ’ and steel workers ' unions — was initially characterised by good-humoured pushing and shoving on both sides . |
| 7 | To carry out a more detailed examination of the existing activities and functional groupings each sub-system of the post-ERA model was expanded , and the ideas and information generated during the exercise used to explore the real situation . |
| 8 | There is a natural appeal in using age weighting in the formula based on the normative assumption that individuals in a given age group ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 9 | The process used to coat the recycled material was developed in the USA . |
| 10 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 11 | THE CURRENT recession has certainly laid to rest forever the myth that public relations is a lightweight ‘ luxury ’ service used to indulge the chief executive . |
| 12 | The simplest method is to relax the assumption of a fixed price level used to locate the real money supply in Fig. 10–2(a) . |
| 13 | Meckel and Serres believed that the scale of organic complexity used to rank the major classes of living organisms corresponded to the pattern of individual development . |
| 14 | The fundamental technique used to analyse the monetary aspect of these decisions is called relevant costing . |
| 15 | In response to its publication , the Energy Secretary , James D. Watkins , ordered his officials to prepare a detailed action plan to control emissions of tritium ( a radioactive isotope of hydrogen used to enhance the explosive power of nuclear warheads ) . |
| 16 | Democracy ought to entail the free exercise of informed choice . |
| 17 | The method used to translate the financial statements should reflect the financial and other operational relationships which exist between an investing company and its foreign enterprises ( refer to SSAP 20 ) . |
| 18 | The method used to store the two matrices is as follows . |
| 19 | He fell naturally into the courteous , familiar mode used to address the elderly . |
| 20 | In future , it will be possible for borrowers to transfer the mortgage interest relief on the loan used to buy the original home to the mortgage on the new home . |
| 21 | Given the confusion surrounding their plans for railway privatisation , perhaps the Government ought to demand the same test for all of its would-be railway experts . |
| 22 | But finally , I would like to make one comment about the er the residual approach used to define the new settlement size . |
| 23 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 24 | In this model the top level represents strategic information used to govern the long-term behaviour of the organisation . |
| 25 | While the empirical tests reveal an arbitrage opportunity , this can not be profitably exploited due to the use of stale prices in the computation of the index , the use of non-synchronous closing prices , inadequate allowance for transactions costs , regulatory restrictions ( such as the US uptick restriction on short selling shares , which limits arbitrage aimed at removing an underpricing of futures contracts ) , time lags in trading the portfolio of shares corresponding to the index , the presence of arbitrage risk ( the arbitrage transaction is not riskless due to uncertain dividends , uncertain interest rates , failure to unwind the share position at the EDSP , and so on ) or because the model used to compute the no-arbitrage prices is incorrect . |
| 26 | There was also an effect due to the hand used to make the discriminative response . |
| 27 | ( Rhoda used to soak the whole cloth in bourbon . ) |
| 28 | Having pondered the operating characteristics of the circuit , the next criterion in our list relates to the space available in the housing used to accommodate the finished board . |
| 29 | The Minister ought to accept the new clause . |
| 30 | The text sets out from the premiss that the beneficiary of the trust ought to obtain the actual land ( rather than its value ) ; the question therefore is who ought to pay off the creditor to whom the land is presently pledged . |