Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These motives , by dint of repeated presentation to the mind , counterbalance the powerful impressions of the private passions that oppose the common good ( Beccaria , 1963 , p. 12 ) . |
| 2 | It is , therefore , in everyone 's interest to avoid delay and to that end , the defenders should if at all possible take and keep the initiative . |
| 3 | The donation is in response to Cambodia 's request for help in restoring its shattered agriculture and reflects the Cambodian government 's desire to make the country self-sufficient in food as quickly as possible , but experts fear any short-term benefits will be outweighed by long-term damage . |
| 4 | As a critical or psychological judgement it is meaningless , since it is difficult to see how a conductor can reveal private soul-searching whilst recording the overture to Die Fledermaus or Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony , short , that is , of transposing each piece into the minor and playing it at half speed . |
| 5 | The old colonial system stood in the way of any attempt to replace an empire based on bullion imports by a mercantilist empire à la Colbert , reserved for Spanish products and feeding the prosperity of the mother-country ; regimentation had failed when interlopers and smugglers had turned the Castilian monopoly into a fiction , when ‘ Spain kept the cow , the rest of Europe drank the milk ’ . |
| 6 | This success was to tempt , and still tempts , thinkers to deny or underestimate the very different and novel processes which govern historic change and reduce the changes in human societies to the rules of biological evolution — with important political consequences and , sometimes , intentions ( ‘ social-Darwinism ’ ) . |
| 7 | Rub some flour onto your working board and add the mixture , roll out thinly and cut into shapes using the templates that are commercially available . |
| 8 | He sat back , studying the hologram a moment , conscious of how it waited for him , displaying that unquestioning patience that distinguished the mechanical from the human . |
| 9 | From that day , early in the October of 1845 , she began drawing on all their outlying accounts and amassing the money with Chambers . |
| 10 | It was considered , therefore , worthwhile to apply an expert system in the early diagnosis and hopefully direct the diagnostician in the right direction and avoid the nugatory work . |
| 11 | This will suit most bulbs , and annual or late-flowering perennial climbers that use the hedge for support . |
| 12 | It was essential to provide an identifiable core of people with professional training skills to act as the standard bearers for the future ; to attract , sustain and develop the specific skills and to lay the foundation of the new profession . |
| 13 | The office is responsible for lobbying the European institutions and keeping the solicitors ' profession at home informed of EC developments . |
| 14 | She gave him a mistrusting look and altered the question . |
| 15 | The president of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors , Christopher Jonas , said it would lead to " unnecessary blight and distort the property market " . |
| 16 | Veljko Kadijevic asserting that Yugoslavia was already in a state of civil war , the Defence Secretariat on May 6 placed the JNA in a full state of combat alert , ordered the Croatian government to stop its attacks against the army , and threatened to " settle accounts " with those who organized intra-national conflicts and set the people against the JNA . |
| 17 | Second , the political bargaining that accompanies the definition of state enterprise objectives provides opportunities for alliances between groups within the state and outside it . |
| 18 | Rather , the time spent negotiating detailed heads of terms is usually better spent on starting due diligence or negotiating the main agreement . |
| 19 | The purchaser and vendor should consider whether or not they wish to sign heads of terms before proceeding to due diligence and negotiating the sale agreement . |
| 20 | In consideration of the purchaser incurring the costs of its professional advisers in commencing due diligence and negotiating the binding agreement the vendor hereby undertakes to the purchaser that during the period from today until midnight on [ ] 19[] it shall not negotiate the sale of the business with any person ( either directly or indirectly ) other than the purchaser The only essential content of the heads of terms is to specify that they are subject to contract except for one or two specific clauses . |
| 21 | The local parliament in Sevastopol called for a political settlement and said the row strengthened its resolve to seek complete autonomy for Crimea . |
| 22 | Seen from without , the stately building that fronts the open square is sufficiently imposing ; viewed from within , the place more than fulfils the promise of its exterior . |
| 23 | I receive it with a grateful heart and let the light enter into me , until I am light . |
| 24 | He found his last meeting with the Shah a profoundly emotional experience and told the Shah he was so moved by the tragedy of it all that he would rather not speak . |
| 25 | In others the seeds hang out on funicles and are dispersed by bats ; others have persistent calyces that allow the fruit to float . |
| 26 | As he dejectedly left the huge shed-like building that housed the sound stage , he slipped and a New York subway token fell out of his pocket . |
| 27 | There has indeed been an obvious effort by Mr Rabin 's government to bolster the Palestine Liberation Organisation at the expense of the Islamic groups that reject the notion of peace with the Jewish state . |
| 28 | Will Lee was recently quoted as saying , ‘ The ways I approach grooves are either to lock with the kick drum and playing fills around that , or to ignore the kick drum and create a melodic hook that allows the bass part to shine . ’ |
| 29 | A one-way outsourcing arrangement , such as General Motors ' purchases of cars and components from Daewoo in South Korea , is little more than a sophisticated version of familiar NFI agreements : they offer the supplier the opportunity to gain value-creating activities and obviate the buyer 's need to invest . |
| 30 | Heclo and Wildavsky ( 1981 ) provide a useful insight into the political intrigue that underlies the operations of this bureaucratic machine . |