Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pantomime analogy draws the reader and characters together into a collective fictional position within an audience , and by so doing counteracts the opposite isolating direction of the forces of war , bureaucracy and totalitarianism . |
| 2 | The uncertainty of catastrophic or chronic illness and the costs incurred means that no developed country leaves health care entirely to the market , even in the United States which most nearly fits the New Right model . |
| 3 | She kicks the high-flying American banker out of the family home and he winds up renting a room in the home of lonely divorcee Monica . |
| 4 | This work records the last photographic journey of his life : to Cyprus . |
| 5 | The book also records the 1972 National Federation of Fish Friers conference at the Park Hotel , Tynemouth , where the president 's banquet and ball cost £2.50 and delegates were entrailed in a debate about what to do with chicken giblets . |
| 6 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 7 | This programme involves the total Catholic school community in discussion of Catholic school philosophy , ethos and goals and leads to an examination of programmes , structures , relationships and practices in the school . |
| 8 | For He could swim across the river : This also involves the intra-infinitival virtual person occupying the same position in time as the actual person which specifies its rank contained in the auxiliary , but here the virtual person is conceived as the support of a potentiality and not of an actualization . |
| 9 | Let me illustrate with another example that involves the entire organisational culture at the upper levels . |
| 10 | It involves the whole political economy of modern agriculture — and that includes consumers and politicians as well as producers . |
| 11 | The first involves the statutory local planning process ; for the location of quarries , mines , factories or holiday complexes in rural areas has become a source of conflict among local social groups . |
| 12 | Taken together , these findings exclude the possibility that either apoptosis or the protective effect of bcl-2 involves the mitochondrial respiratory chain , at least in these cells under the conditions that we have studied , and raise the possibility that the Bcl-2 protein might exert its protective effect while bound to the continuous nuclear and ER membrane . |
| 13 | Lord Minchampstead installs new steam-engines on his farms , enforces the new Poor Law to the letter , and will not give a farthing away in alms . |
| 14 | Secondly , not only have Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) confirmed that it is a close relationship that plays the key protective role in the development of depression ( regular contact , fair level of confiding ) , but they also found that it was essential to consider both positive and negative aspects of such relationships for any satisfactory understanding . |
| 15 | The Pakistani today plays the former British champion Geoff Williams for a place in the main draw . |
| 16 | I still miss him and it is a struggle not to be unfair to Steve Martin , who now plays the exasperated central figure of Father Of The Bride ( PG , Odeons West End and Marble Arch ) . |
| 17 | One of the most obvious examples of this principle of ‘ statement and change ’ is the old concerto grosso form , where the main orchestra , or ‘ tutti ’ , always plays the same musical substance , each statement being separated by the solo ‘ concertino ’ group playing something different , usually of a virtuoso character . |
| 18 | JONATHAN RICE plays the tantalising alphabetical game |
| 19 | In the film , The Silence of the Lambs , Sir Anthony plays the cannibalistic serial killer and says he fears that it glorifies violence . |
| 20 | Astride this ancient artifact rides the Grand Theogonist head of the Cult of Sigmar and the most powerful religious leader in the Empire . |
| 21 | To say however that this route supplies the only reliable way to knowledge is grossly to overstep its boundaries . |
| 22 | The hot water cylinder supplies the domestic hot water to the taps . |
| 23 | For example , the area of the primate cortex that receives the direct visual projection from the thalamus is distinguished by a dense band of white matter in layer four . |
| 24 | Higher education for the deaf receives the same lukewarm support . |
| 25 | With no tax on films , competitive equilibrium in the film industry would occur at E ' ; where the demand curve crosses the private marginal cost curve which is also the competitive supply curve of the film industry . |
| 26 | ‘ My study reviews the evidence that a genetically-determined maternal response to influenza results in production of an antibody which crosses the fetal blood-brain barrier and , by acting as a fetal auto-antibody , induces neurodevelopmental damage , ’ added the Professor . |
| 27 | Alexander/Barclay Class 143 dmu No 143022 in Tyne and Wear PTE colours crosses the High Level bridge into Gateshead with 14.17 Newcastle to Middlesborough service on 7 November 1986 . |
| 28 | The visitor crosses the maroon red carpet into the royal waiting-room of Bath stone , complete with original fireplace . |
| 29 | But we are studying substantive interpretations of legal practice , not semantic theories , and our present interest in conventionalism lies in its negative claim that convention exhausts the intrinsic normative power of past decisions . |
| 30 | The Lutheran family of churches constitutes the largest Protestant denomination in the world , with some 60 million members . |