Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The information and recommendations contained in the report provide an excellent basis for building the flexible and responsive approach in relation to Europe which will be required over the next few years . |
| 2 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 3 | UITF9 requires adjustments to be made where the distortions caused by the hyper-inflation are such as to affect the true and fair view given by those accounts . |
| 4 | The ninth consensus of the ASB 's Urgent Issues Task Force requires adjustments to be made when the distortions are such as to affect the true and fair view of the accounts . |
| 5 | CHANNEL 4 , the TV station with a reputation for producing the eccentric and bizarre , would carry on doing ‘ mad things ’ , chief executive Michael Grade said yesterday . |
| 6 | While one of the original purposes of trusts is believed to have been to avoid forfeiture for treason or escheat on a conviction of felony , the modern trust has been evolved as a useful instrument for protecting the weak and guarding the assets of those susceptible to stupid actions on account of age or facility . |
| 7 | First , we suggested that the occurrence of disability as a significant event in an individual 's life is only a starting-point for understanding the practical and personal consequences of living with a disability . |
| 8 | Project Leaders are responsible for co-ordinating the Compact and ensuring that the schools ' needs are met . |
| 9 | In March Jim was the beaten finalist at the Amor Open in Holland after defeating the Russian and Dutch No 1 's , ranked 12th and 14th in the world . |
| 10 | A kudu calf , one of a species of exotic antelope , has died at London Zoo after exhibiting the nervous and debilitating symptoms associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) or " mad cow " disease . |
| 11 | After viewing the outside and the wild , overgrown garden , they decided to explore the crumbling interior . |
| 12 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 13 | An attempt will also be made to develop a methodology for establishing the direct and indirect costs of these different modes of teacher education . |
| 14 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 15 | The town has also ar institution called the Spittel , built from an endowment of 1225 which laid an obligation upon the Teutonic Order to maintain a hospice for tending the poor and providing hospitality to pilgrims . |
| 16 | He described journalism as being about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable . |
| 17 | They are required to identify the best way of helping the frail and vulnerable and in many cases that will be by using the voluntary or the independent sector . |
| 18 | But they helped Katy realise her dream of helping the poor and needy in Africa . |
| 19 | During the 1920s this fact had been used against universal family allowances because , it was claimed , they would have the ‘ dysgenic ’ effect of encouraging the idle and the feckless to have more children ( Gray ; 1927 ; McDougall , 1921 ) . |
| 20 | Instead we have seen the emergence of the enabling authority , where the Town Hall finds ways of allowing the private and voluntary sectors to undertake the work that , for the last few decades , it has itself accomplished . |
| 21 | The cost of policing the Labour and Conservative party conferences this year were £4,000 and £1 million . |
| 22 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 23 | Before all that , however , England have to readdress themselves to the problem of defeating the Irish and the Dutch , who beat them in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf last year . |
| 24 | As early as 1938 , Irmgard Seefried , then a young soprano in Aachen , noted Karajan 's inclination to use voices instrumentally , not wilfully or undramatically , but as part of a deeper process of aligning the musical and dramatic elements within the score . |
| 25 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
| 26 | The Incarnation became a way of instructing the poor and ignorant in truths long since grasped by the wise and philosophically educated ! |
| 27 | Sickness and injury , from whatever cause , are frequently the natural method of eliminating the weak and maintaining genetic strength in a population . |
| 28 | Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature . |
| 29 | Miscue analysis has made teachers aware of the paucity of language of many of the early readers , and the near-impossibility of utilising the syntactic and semantic cueing systems with " Up , Janet , up ! " or " Can Nan fan a pan ? " |
| 30 | The Council for the Protection of Rural Wales is a voluntary body established 60 years ago with the expressed purpose of protecting the natural and man-made beauty of rural Wales . |