Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kariel and Kariel ( 1988 ) have also examined the impact of new facilities constructed in Alberta 's ( Canada ) Kananaskis Valley to accommodate the 1988 Winter Olympic Games . |
| 2 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 3 | To restrict access to national quotas to fishing vessels which are owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals , be they natural or legal persons , is neither ‘ suitable ’ nor ‘ necessary ’ in order to enable the local populations dependent on fisheries and related industries to benefit from the quotas . |
| 4 | There were enough new coaches at last to enable the steam-heat-only Mark 1 vehicles to be discarded , and enact new operating practices with newly converted electric heat , air-braked diesel locomotives . |
| 5 | Rather than waiting for more individual tenants to bring the same problem , it would be more efficient for the bureau to alert the local authority concerned and to explore with interested clients the possibility of a tenants ' association . |
| 6 | After all " no Gordon would know how to wear the Black Watch tartan " . |
| 7 | These wars were inspired by a belief that Louis XIV of France hoped to become the overlord of Europe , and that he wanted to restore the Catholic James II or his descendants to the throne . |
| 8 | As the media and the information that it carries are increasingly separate so records managers need to master managing virtual records , learning to optimise the immense flexibility this can provide , whilst minimising the potential chaos . |
| 9 | They come amid mounting pressure for the leadership formally to renounce the symbolic Clause 4 of the party 's constitution , which promises the ‘ common ownership of the means of production , distribution and exchange ’ . |
| 10 | The case is expected to go the High Court some time next year . |
| 11 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 12 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 13 | The first stages are fitted with input offset adjustments just large enough to cancel the largest field likely to be encountered , namely the total inclined component in the middle latitudes . |
| 14 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 15 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 16 | He re-entered the hangar and searched for the switch to slide the double doors open electrically . |
| 17 | Get rid of erm you really aught not to have dark walls you really aught to have erm pale we was going to paint the whole house white . |
| 18 | Hammer fielded a largely reserve side to conserve the first-team men involved in the following day 's Hospital Cup Final . |
| 19 | He used a piece of railway track to conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at Hooton Station on the Wirral . |
| 20 | Police are now waiting to interview the 25 year old man who was driving the stolen car . |
| 21 | Will he pass on the thanks of those of us who went to see the Prime Minister two weeks ago to ask for his help in the matter ? |
| 22 | I went to see the old man this morning with Angela Foley to break the news to him . |
| 23 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 24 | It is great to see the same faces each time I come back . |
| 25 | It is great to see the same faces each time I come back . |
| 26 | I am sure that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State will be happy to see the hon. Member concerned . |
| 27 | It is also possible to scale the approaching waves such that at the point of collision , and . |
| 28 | Since in these cases , it is possible to scale the null coordinates such that . |
| 29 | As Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) note , taking an elder with brain failure to a pub can enable that elder to sustain the practical consciousness necessary to have a drink , sing or make a joke . |
| 30 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |