Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be apparent , first of all , that the relationships of equivalence described by Jakobson include at least two different types of structure ( see Todorov 1982 , Ch. 10 ) similarities of linguistic form immediately evident to the ear or eye ( in Saussurean terms , syntagmatic structures ) ; and groupings , according to grammatical and other classifications , which depend on the reader 's ability to categorize the different linguistic features of the text ( in Saussurean terms , paradigmatic ) . |
| 2 | Discussion of the budget package was obstructed by the opposition in an attempt to compel the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) government to force key LDP figures to testify concerning their role in the scandal . |
| 3 | Taking into account the notion of support , the most satisfactory definition that can be given of the English bare infinitive in the present state of our knowledge is therefore as follows : the bare infinitive is a non-finite verb form that provides for the incidence of its event to a support through all the instants of time required to actualize the complete lexical content of this event . |
| 4 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 5 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 6 | To use these however , a shallow hole had first to be drilled by hammer and drilling chisel to accommodate the half-round tapering feathers . |
| 7 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
| 8 | If this expansion is insufficient to accommodate the increased productive potential of the Community then the relevant scale economies may well be achieved by some rationalisation of existing production units . |
| 9 | An extended duct is available to accommodate the extra few inches of depth created by a cavity wall |
| 10 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 11 | Altogether 16 carpet companies are now part of the scheme which has been tailored to accommodate the new European Standard ISO 9002 . |
| 12 | Its modern quays were well suited to accommodate the new large ships , known as cogs , which in the course of the second half of the twelfth century came to dominate the maritime trade of the Baltic , North Sea and Channel coasts . |
| 13 | This was no farmer 's son , she conceded , eager to court the only eligible female within twenty miles ! |
| 14 | This evidential rule states that a party should submit to court the original evidential document rather than a copy . |
| 15 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 16 | Chairman Robert Reid QC and BAF representative David Littlewood voted to uphold the original four-year ban , but former Olympic 800 metres medallist Derek Johnson disagreed . |
| 17 | Diplomatic relations with the UK were severed in February 1989 following the imposition of a fatwa by the late Ayatollah Khomeini which called on Moslems to kill the Indian-born British writer , Salman Rushdie [ see pp. 36450-51 ] . |
| 18 | On June 24 , the House voted 280–150 to kill the Superconducting Super Collider , saying the nation can not afford the colossal accelerator , now estimated at $11 billion . |
| 19 | The UVF admitted trying to kill the 43-year-old Protestant man . |
| 20 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 21 | Renault plans to target the 1.4 RT version at long-distance travellers , reckoning that its spacious interior , high equipment and trim levels and supple ride will enable the top-spec Clio to rival bigger cars for commuting . |
| 22 | Emulation Program ( EP ) to enable the 3720 Remote Controller |
| 23 | In many large churches , built to enable the greatest possible numbers to attend Sunday Mass , the circumstances of worship too often hinder an effective liturgy of the Word . |
| 24 | Will he table an appropriate motion next week to enable the Scottish Grand Committee to debate those important items ? |
| 25 | The results of the project will provide the objective criteria to enable the British flat roofing industry to compete more effectively within the European Community . |
| 26 | It was not designed to contradict chapter 3 on collegiality , still less subtly to undermine it ; it was to enable the die-hard conservative minority to vote for chapter 3 with a clear conscience . |
| 27 | ALTHOUGH three English Commonwealth Games representatives , Peter Elliott , Derek Redmond and Phil Brown , have withdrawn , Linford Christie 's presence should do much to enliven the Scottish Indoor Championship in the Kelvin Hall , Glasgow , today and tomorrow . |
| 28 | I love you I love you — it 's become some trilling song popular for a lurid month and then dismissed to the club circuit where pudgy rockers with grease in their hair and yearning in their voice will use it to unfrock the lolling front-row girls . |
| 29 | So , for example , the laws of kashrut , whilst serving an obvious pragmatic purpose of separating and distinguishing the Jews from their neighbours , and guarding against assimilation , also served to affirm the selected symbolic system , the abomination and avoidance of crawling things being the negative side of the pattern of things approved and a function of the ordering of society . |
| 30 | Both tasks were designed to assess children 's ability to respond to some of the linguistic cues which can be used to signal the deductive/ empirical distinction . |