Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Assad 's decision to support the United States-led anti-Iraqi alliance after the Iraqi President and Assad 's Ba'athist adversary , Saddam Hussein , had ordered Iraqi forces into Kuwait in August 1990 led to a swift international reappraisal of Syria , a country long ostracised by the West as a sponsor of international terrorism . |
| 2 | It was a unique experience to rummage the various weird oil-related craft , construction barges , pipe-laying barges , drilling rigs etc. , some of them like small townships afloat with huge crews made up of separate groups such as divers , riggers , welders , roustabouts and supervisors . |
| 3 | In Victorian times visitors were taken by wagonette to see the magnificent peat-fuelled flames . |
| 4 | The medical , legal and local government discipline should have the facilities to enable their potentially bilingual students to study for at least an additional term in order to enhance their language and cultural knowledge to a defined level and to extend their professional expertise to accommodate the main different professional dimensions — such as Islamic matrimonial law and sickle cell anaemia . |
| 5 | The very evident tendency of the end of the first part to overshadow the final Sacrificial Dance is one problem he convincingly solved , partly by restraining the former but mainly by injecting an extraordinary degree of ferocity into the fragmented rhythms of the latter . |
| 6 | The very evident tendency of the end of the first part to overshadow the final Sacrificial Dance is one problem he very firmly and convincingly solved , partly by restraining the former but mainly by injecting an extraordinary degree of ferocity into the fragmented rhythms of the latter . |
| 7 | All is well as long as the subject is lying down , but when he stands up , the reflexes which normally make arteries all over the body contract to meet the new hydrostatic conditions no longer operate effectively , and a sharp and dangerous fall of blood pressure follows . |
| 8 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 9 | These are terms used in digital electronics to designate the basic logical operations on which digital systems are founded . |
| 10 | We organise excursions as part of our courses and participants have ample opportunity to meet the hospitable local people and practise Spanish . |
| 11 | The first attempt to penetrate the Latin American market was made in the early 1930s , when Moscow found itself with a surplus of oil in a world marketing network tightly controlled by the major multi-nationals . |
| 12 | More recently , the Department has commissioned an awareness campaign whose major aims are : ensuring everyone who needs to know about EMC does so ; ensuring that UK industry is well equipped with information to tackle the directive ; setting up mechanisms for British industry to acquire the necessary technical know-how ; helping industry to implement EMC measures with minimum cost and disruption ; and finally , promoting the positive aspects of competitive advantage in Europe as well as explaining the pitfalls of non-compliance . |
| 13 | Please do not advise your bank or financial institution to cancel the Direct Debiting Instruction if there are other policies under the instruction . |
| 14 | JOHN BOTTOMLEY became the first trainer to miss the new official deadline for declaring jockeys yesterday . |
| 15 | Discussion of the budget package was obstructed by the opposition in an attempt to compel the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) government to force key LDP figures to testify concerning their role in the scandal . |
| 16 | THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND Switzerland this month secured the cooperation of the country 's largest manufacturer of coffins ( or as the Americans call them caskets ) in a bid to preserve the tropical moist forests of the world . |
| 17 | Although he now had the potential earning power of any major movie star , he nevertheless remained on unemployment benefit while waiting for his agent to find the right new vehicle for him . |
| 18 | I would begin my much-loved cleaning the moment they all left for the pub , and in pursuit of domestic perfection removed the cushions from the couch to find the little brown eye-dropper-bottle . |
| 19 | The two-day conference was organised in an attempt to inform the current public debate and arrive at conclusions about the best way forward . |
| 20 | Moderation in all things has generally been a vain hope where human competition is concerned , and the contest to obtain the ultimate Peke-faced specimen has already led the breed into trouble . |
| 21 | The methodology employed has three basic elements : a literature review to establish the necessary conceptual framework ; the collection of existing data from relevant sources ; an empirical study of Glasgow University , Glasgow Polytechnic and Paisley College of Technology , with some comparison of their treatment of non-traditional students . |
| 22 | Rejecting a federalized party , he asserted that the CPSU should remain unified in order to be true to Lenin 's concept of an internationalist party acting as a force to cement the multinational Soviet state . |
| 23 | The idea , conceived by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and endorsed last month in talks between the German leader and US president Bill Clinton , is an attempt to revive the strong transatlantic ties that existed immediately after the Second World War but which have steadily declined as that post-war generation ages . |
| 24 | Caught up in the concern to balance the power of the Commons is an attempt to recapture elements of the eighteenth-century constitution in a way that waters down the democratic side of the state machine ; caught up in the concern to secure a more independent House of Commons is an attempt to revive the pre-democratic nineteenth-century liberal constitution ; and caught up in the concern to limit parliamentary sovereignty is an attempt to limit democracy itself . |
| 25 | It is a fitting setting to discover the marvellous local game , the world famous Aberdeen Angus beef , superb seafood from the nearby East Coast , and fine salmon straight from the Dee … all cooked to perfection by our master chef . |
| 26 | The grant is the first to be paid out of the Nuclear Safety Account , set up by the Group of Seven industrialized countries at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) for the purpose of providing emergency aid to secure the Soviet-designed nuclear reactors in Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | The talks were scheduled to resume in early January 1991 , the Philippine government having previously set Jan. 31 as the deadline for concluding a new accord to replace the current Military Bases Agreement which was due to expire in September 1991 . |
| 28 | It says people were turning again to the old tried and true spices of Guilt and Feeling Dirty and Furtiveness And Stuff in a frantic attempt to resurrect the whole sad affair . |
| 29 | Thereafter , although a dazzling tour-de-force the performance style becomes too fragmented , in an attempt to define the anarchic energetic presence of his anti-hero , who appears to have a penchant for fish and telephones , while gifted with a ‘ good god smile ’ . |
| 30 | There is now a conscious attempt to replace the unmarked masculine form he in English with forms such as s/he , he or she , and him or her . |