Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to battles with senior management who questioned the status of the policy decision to implement the new system . |
| 2 | There is the prospect of some government funding to compare the underpinning knowledge of NVQs/SVQs at these higher levels with that demanded for qualifications offered by the CIB . |
| 3 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |
| 4 | It has been a superb opportunity to compare the varied football cultures . |
| 5 | One disadvantage of the departure from the planned scheme was , of course , the loss of the opportunity to compare the new pathway students with their colleagues continuing on a traditional course . |
| 6 | We then realized that we had gone too far and lacked the critical mass to support the heavy selling effort involved , so we bought another company to fill out the range again . |
| 7 | Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban . |
| 8 | Good , well thought out industrial or commercial experience for teachers provides the opportunity to spot the exciting curriculum vehicles and identify the challenging and enterprising educational opportunities . |
| 9 | In addition , the planners argue that they have a duty imposed upon them under recent Acts of Parliament to conserve the natural environment of Orkney . |
| 10 | ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . ) |
| 11 | At Friday 's meeting , Mr Stewart told the union representatives and the Labour MPs Donald Dewar and George Galloway that while he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 12 | At Friday 's meeting , Mr Stewart told the union representatives and the Labour MPs , Donald Dewar and George Galloway , that while he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 13 | However , while Mr Stewart said he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 14 | And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare . |
| 15 | Many were reportedly angered by the Amir 's decision to restore the National Council despite their request not to do so at a meeting on May 28 between opposition leaders and government ministers . |
| 16 | I HAVE always had the highest regard for Rugby League 's board of directors — until their recent decision to restore the two-division set-up . |
| 17 | However , given the level of popular support for Iraq in the other countries , King Hassan 's decision to support the Egyptian line wholeheartedly was generally considered risky . |
| 18 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 19 | Both groups were reported to have expressed their willingness to support the Lakas-NUCD coalition in the new legislature . |
| 20 | Erm that zoning that allocation in a local plan backed by this erm er er policy in the structure plan would be enough in my judgement to enable the economic development people to actually capture the , get the elephant in the trap . |
| 21 | A unique opportunity to enjoy the magical experience of a dive beneath the sea … without getting wet ! |
| 22 | This is a splendid opportunity to enjoy the fantastic visibility from the Trislander 's big windows , for many passengers the first time they have really had much of a view from an aircraft . |
| 23 | The opportunity to enjoy the finest food and wine and to relive the 450-year history of England 's most famous country inn , is offered to National Trust members at £195.00 per person , including VAT , and is applicable for any two nights between 1st November , 1990 and 31st March , 1991 . |
| 24 | From the outside it is difficult to know whether to curse Bramante 's decision to demolish the original church — apart from the internal apse structure and the ( later ) campanile , — or to marvel at the soaring lines . |
| 25 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |
| 26 | The result was an exact compound of parts , no more , no less , and we had not the heart to continue the troublesome process for ourselves . |
| 27 | Pressing the mode buttons together allows the user to compare the modified patch to the original . |
| 28 | Finally , it made sense with the gallery 's affairs already disrupted by the construction , to seize the opportunity to restore the original museum , reinstall the collection , and landscape the surrounding grounds . |
| 29 | Prior to there being a detailed component to carry the specific attribute , the relationship can only be made to the assembly space . |
| 30 | She clenched her jaw to kill the sultry languor that was stealing over her at the sight of his thick lashes lying in two black arcs on his gilded cheekbones . |