Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical breakdown of rock is always associated with some kind of volume change and it is useful to categorize the various processes into those involving an overall volumetric change in the rock mass and those related to changes in volume of material introduced into voids or fissures in the rock . |
| 2 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 3 | To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly . |
| 4 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 5 | His plan was to reorganize the Southern League with other clubs into two divisions of eighteen to twenty clubs each , to be called the Football Alliance , with promotion and relegation between the Second Division of the League and the First of the Alliance as well as within the two organizations . |
| 6 | There should be a need to reorganize the whole time-scale of a current c , merely to fit the software into the work schedule . |
| 7 | The original structure was partially demolished prior to the line 's closure with a Bailey bridge then placed to accommodate the limited traffic under B.R. ownership . |
| 8 | First , it was the gradual transformation of woodlands and grasslands into farmland , and then years later building it up to accommodate the ever-growing influx of people . |
| 9 | After the hearing the mother asked the local authority to accommodate the two boys for the time being and that was done by placement in foster care . |
| 10 | The first , ‘ Verifiability ’ ( 1945 ) , suggested modifications of the principle of verification to accommodate the essential indeterminacy of symbolism ( ‘ open texture ’ ) . |
| 11 | Lord Kaldor , for example , has argued that the money supply is passively adjusted to the level required to accommodate the current level of economic activity . |
| 12 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 13 | The hoist has a capacity of 50 tons for boats of FAB 3's dimensions and both it and the dock are designed to accommodate the largest lifeboats at present envisaged . |
| 14 | It was acknowledged , however , not least by the participants , that the agreement was primarily regarded as a means of defusing ethnic tensions and the possibility of civil war rather than as a concrete proposal to accommodate the political aspirations of Moslems , Serbs and Croats . |
| 15 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 16 | a method of spacing whereby each each character is spaced to accommodate the varying widths of letters or figures , so increasing readability . |
| 17 | Pool Table A new slot machine is required to accommodate the altered size of the 10 penny piece . |
| 18 | Pool Table A new slot machine is required to accommodate the altered size of the 10 penny piece . |
| 19 | It 's the one room that has in some way to accommodate the changing interests of all members of the family ; it 's also the room that is most on show , the room where your guests stay the longest . |
| 20 | At first the operations were dropping bomb loads on known terrorist targets but as the communist bandits employed more elusive tactics the air operations had to be restructured to accommodate the changing nature of the communist operations . |
| 21 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 22 | To accommodate the lofty ceilings of some of the main rooms , Lutyens used the traditional architectural solution of inserting extra or mezzanine rooms on all four fronts . |
| 23 | The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants . |
| 24 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 25 | In recent years , the school has seen major changes with the enlargement and modernisation of the building to accommodate the extra children from nearby Froyle , following the closure of the school there in 1986 . |
| 26 | The need to improve boathouses to accommodate the new generation of lifeboats was inextricably linked with the most important factor in getting to a casualty quicker — the increase in the speed of lifeboats — and Mr Vernon confirmed that the Institution is on schedule for its target to have fast lifeboats at all stations by the end of 1993 . |
| 27 | By far the most prominent pattern is represented by the regular development of narrow-fronted strip buildings along the main frontages in such a way as to accommodate the maximum number of properties in the space available . |
| 28 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 29 | This is to accommodate the large range of abundances . |
| 30 | That is precisely why we allow local education authorities the flexibility to devise schemes to accommodate the particular circumstances of small schools and those with very high inherited salary costs . |