Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks this demonstrates the vitality of Islam and of the unwillingness of the thinking Muslim to accept the harsh , intolerant version of it offered by the fundamentalists . |
| 2 | The major contradiction that they detected was between his vision of a European ensemble able to challenge the two existing superpowers and his narrowly nationalist priorities . |
| 3 | The gondola which takes skiers from load level up to the skiing area proved as popular with visitors last summer as it had in its first winter , with tourists of all ages and states of infirmity able to enjoy the marvellous view along Loch Eli and the Great Glen . |
| 4 | There was full provision for verification with each side able to investigate the other side 's compliance with the treaty . |
| 5 | For the critic concerned to identify the narrative structures of the contemporary romance form , there is actually no need to apply a semiological analysis to the twelve volumes of a Mills and Boon monthly output , or to draw upon the morphology of the folk-tale , as some theorists have undertaken . |
| 6 | Not the least remarkable aspect of that day was that the county should record their highest total in the limited-overs arena , no fewer than 15 years after M. J. Smith and Graham Barlow had given Sarfraz and Bedi a spring clean to register the only previous Seaxe score in excess of 300 . |
| 7 | But Saracen arrows did not have the power of penetration necessary to pierce the heavy mail hauberks of the Christian knights , and whenever their numbers were inferior they were frequently overwhelmed by the sheer weight and ferocity of their opponents . |
| 8 | The 1980 Transport Act took all the action necessary to transfer the National Freight Corporation to the private sector and reform the Traffic Commissioner system so that new inter-city and commuter coach services could develop , together with other new services like car-sharing . |
| 9 | I have the Smith & Wesson trained on the doorway ready to blast the first guy to show . |
| 10 | The exposure of immature insects to a dosage of the insecticide sufficient to kill the susceptible females , enabled Seawright to ‘ mass produce ’ more than one million sterile males a day with only two females per thousand . |
| 11 | Paint a wicker basket white to create the perfect base for colourful flowers |
| 12 | In their campaign to rupture parliamentary discretion and medical hegemony , the women and men of the repeal movement drew on the only vocabulary able to bear the moral and intellectual weight of their challenge . |
| 13 | Now when that sort of ‘ I see ’ response is missing from the child , then I think we 've got to think in terms of ‘ Is this child able to understand the verbal and visual symbols we 're offering ? ’ |
| 14 | Since incremental kWh charges were also increased only in step with the bulk running charge , the Boards were in effect making no charge for any additional capacity necessary to meet the increased domestic sales over that ten-year period . |
| 15 | For the MPhil the portfolio should include one work suitable to form the major item in a concert programme , like a symphony or concerto ; this course normally lasts for two years . |
| 16 | And the road to Great Aunt Martha 's lay between avenues of waving rhubarb , enchanting as the Golden Road to Samarkand to a small child eager to see the big , wide world . |
| 17 | The differential amplifiers used in EEG machines use the difference between the voltages offered by the two inputs , which is normally less than 200 microvolts ( millionths of a volt ) , and amplify this difference up to a voltage sufficient to drive the galvanometer pens — perhaps 0–5 volts . |
| 18 | And Hong Kong is not the sort of story likely to have the traditional happy ending . |
| 19 | The state had the third largest Congressional representation , and was expected to gain seats as a result of the reapportioning process due to follow the 1990 census . |
| 20 | The forthcoming contest was of importance not merely because of California 's size and prestige , but also because the state was expected to gain another six or seven seats in the federal legislature as a result of the redistribution due to follow the 1990 census . |
| 21 | Considering the moment propitious to pursue the Spanish claim to Gibraltar , he and Carrero Blanco mounted a press and radio campaign for the return of the Rock . |
| 22 | In recognising that fact , as well as the reality that this package can not be amended or the entire community ratification process goes back into the melting pot , it was the pressure point likely to offer the greatest temptation to the Tory anti-Maastricht brigade . |
| 23 | In a move likely to anger the independent-minded leaders of the three Baltic republics , the Kremlin told Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania that several laws ‘ strengthening their economic and political independence ’ would have to go . |
| 24 | In a move likely to anger the independent-minded leaders of the three Baltic republics , the Kremlin told Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania that several laws ‘ strengthening their economic and political independence ’ would have to go . |
| 25 | The AT , on the other hand , wanted the groups to continue as an association with individual members of each group able to join the new party if they wished . |
| 26 | This and other poor investments cut the cash available to meet the soaring costs of Canary Wharf . |
| 27 | The limited authority of President Amos Sawyer 's interim government was highlighted by the refusal of the two main rebel groupings to recognize new banknotes introduced by the National Bank on Jan. 6 , in what Sawyer claimed was a currency reform essential to reduce the excess liquidity in the war-ravaged economy . |
| 28 | It needs to be about half a millimetre thick to absorb the whole solar spectrum and , since it 's an expensive material , silicon-based solar cells are comparatively expensive to make . |
| 29 | She had gone to his room ready to play the wanton , certainly believing she would have to seduce him into her arms , and there had been an undercurrent of panic at this . |
| 30 | Under this , British Telecom would lay optical fibre trunk lines , leaving private enterprise free to install the switched links to interface both with the trunk lines and domestic TV sets . |