Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relaxation classes , acupuncture and hypnosis are other ways of emulating the nicotine high ; statistically , they are less likely to work than the real thing . |
| 2 | I 'm proposing that we accept this er trading charter draft , and that the Parish Council erm looks to provide once the Czech version as being er provided for us from Czechoslovakia er from the Czech Republic rather , that erm we 'll accept . |
| 3 | Secondly , to know if the actual pollution concentrations are in compliance with the standards , an air pollution monitoring system is required . |
| 4 | They want to know if the Prime Minister knew . ’ |
| 5 | I told him it was important to my defence to know if the old man had been blindfolded . |
| 6 | The doctor will want to know if the sexual partner has any symptoms and in particular whether he , too , has attended a clinic and , if so , what the diagnosis was and whether any treatment was given . |
| 7 | Ian Frank , representing one of the pressure groups against the plan , wanted to know if the National Grid barrister was actually a barrister . |
| 8 | To discover if the inhibitory effect of indomethacin is because of its ability to scavenge HOCl , we evaluated the effect of indomethacin on HOCl production . |
| 9 | There will be much worse to come if the German government decides , as it may , to pull out of the European Fighter Aircraft project on which Deutsche Aerospace was counting for future revenues . |
| 10 | For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years . |
| 11 | Studies will try to establish if the infected cow had been given English cattle feed from ground up ruminant carcasses — banned in Britain in 1988 and in France in 1989 . |
| 12 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
| 13 | The only other information available is in the form of case histories of athletes who have continued to train until the third trimester of pregnancy and changed to swimming exercises . |
| 14 | The best way of saying what Christianity believes about the incarnation is to look at three views which the Church has always refused to accept since the earliest times . |
| 15 | Once it became possible to lower a patient 's blood pressure substantially , it was not merely of academic interest to know whether the raised blood pressure was really ‘ essential ’ , that is necessary to maintain a sufficient flow of blood through narrowed arteries to vital organs , and , if it was , whether modest treatment ( to ward off the obvious hazards of strokes or heart failure ) could be tolerated . |
| 16 | When Galileo compared the rate of fall of different materials he was attempting to answer a fundamental question : he wanted to know whether the gravitational attraction on different materials was the same . |
| 17 | Second , the text shows that it was important to know whether the general clause applied or not . |
| 18 | It is difficult to know whether the increasing participation of Third World women in managerial , technical and professional employment in TNCs in the Third World is simply pan of the ‘ indigenization ’ process of replacing expatriate with local personnel , or whether it is a qualitatively different phenomenon in its own right . |
| 19 | They also want to know whether the French Government will take any action . |
| 20 | It would be interesting to know whether the same criteria were used in the restructuring of the reserves . |
| 21 | He had assured Lucille that he fought only because his pension would be jeopardized if he refused , but in truth he had wanted to know whether the old skills were still there or whether , like a cannon fired too fast and too often , he had simply worn himself out as a soldier . |
| 22 | Tallboy was at a loss to know whether the big man was mocking him or not with these innocent tastes . |
| 23 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |
| 24 | At one point , the original river bank , shored up by wire and stone , remained the only still point , actually down the centre of the fast-moving Trannon , so that it was a job to guess whether the buckling gabions had belonged originally to the left or to the right . |
| 25 | The conflict is often hurtful for the family or close friends , who have to guess whether the creative member wants company or not . |
| 26 | It is important to observe whether the stroked person accepts or rejects the stroke . |
| 27 | If for example , one envisages a flock of say 1,000 laying birds , it is very important to carry out market research to find whether the immediate area can and is willing to purchase your whole production . |
| 28 | In other words , the proposed research should enable us to discover whether the dark figure of crime is even larger than self-report studies reveal it to be . |
| 29 | Earlier , it had emerged that an investigation being undertaken in South Africa into alleged South African Defence Force ( SADF ) " hit squads " [ see p. 37234 ] would not attempt to discover whether the Lubowski murder was linked to such squads . |
| 30 | The World Wide Fund for Nature-Hong Kong is carrying out DNA analysis to discover whether the local dolphin is indeed a separate species . |