Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The much vaunted privatization of state companies , scheduled to begin in July , was repeatedly postponed due to legal and technical difficulties , and the promised cut of 360,000 civil service posts failed to materialize due to the constitutional safeguards protecting their employment . |
| 2 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 3 | What would it be like to fall asleep in the protecting shelter of his arms ? |
| 4 | One way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the present value of the investment and to compare that with the present cost . |
| 5 | They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East . |
| 6 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 7 | This is more prominent in the early stages of the diarrhoeal illness , and returns to near normal by the fourth day , by which time the faecal weights are coming down . |
| 8 | The RTO therefore felt it ‘ necessary to re-examine some of the basic premises , [ and ] to explore further the underlying assumptions before formulating specific policy proposals ’ . |
| 9 | Depressing because here was an opportunity in a mainstream publishing venture to include some of the new writing on the arts by black women in Britain . |
| 10 | Before handing over to Frank , I 'd like to emphasise some of the key points of nineteen ninety one . |
| 11 | Avoid Blackgang Chine which is over-commercialised and continue on to see some of the other chines — dramatic fissures in the cliff faces — such as Whale , Walpen and Shepherd 's Chine . |
| 12 | I 'd have liked to see some of the famous places , like Rome and Paris and Moscow and South Sea islands and Jamaica and New York . |
| 13 | Here 's your chance to see some of the best dairy cattle in the world while taking in the sights on our coast-to-coast autumn tour of the USA . |
| 14 | If you 'd care to see some of the early results , Marjorie , I could explain them . ’ |
| 15 | ah , you want to see some of the twenty five year olds going to town down here |
| 16 | The Doctor had offered her a journey to see some of the beautiful sights of the universe . |
| 17 | They drove silently to Busacher 's house and Willi helped him indoors , relieved to see some of the old vigour returning . |
| 18 | There is nowhere better or , frankly , easier than this to see some of the high Pyrenean lakes , of which there are at least four that you can get to here by car , as well as a fifth reachable fairly simply on foot . |
| 19 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 20 | However it may still be useful to compare some of the main relevant characteristics of the samples , omitting those who went straight into institutional care , in order to see whether the development officers had more dependent or problematic clients to deal with than were in the control samples . |
| 21 | Their presence has done much to inhibit some of the wilder excesses on both sides . |
| 22 | We had arranged to meet Mrs Newton at her home at ten o'clock and I left my flat earlier than necessary to try to miss some of the rush-hour traffic , though how you avoid a rush hour which lasts from around seven in the morning to nine o'clock at night , I do not know . |
| 23 | We need only to compare this to the average annual cost in 1986–87 of probation orders ( 900 ) , community service orders ( 520 ) , attendance sentence orders ( 117 ) or even places in probation hostels ( 7 , 174 ) to see why the Treasury is in danger of becoming a radical advocate of decarceration ! |
| 24 | A second way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the investment 's expected rate of return and to compare this with the prevailing rate of interest . |
| 25 | 1984 — DIANA is pregnant with Prince Harry , and during the summer before his birth the royal couple are said to enjoy some of the happiest times of their marriage . |
| 26 | It is important to try to preserve some of the old pedestrian routes through the new precinct . |
| 27 | The four-bed unit at pioneering Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge , was set up to treat some of the worst brain-damaged and head injury cases in the country . |
| 28 | It is tempting to see this as the first occasion when the judges insisted on independence on this principle . |
| 29 | This did not mean that unity was ruled out however , for the Americans , far from opposing European economic unity , began to see this as the only way to create a firm barrier to communist expansion . |
| 30 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |