Example sentences of "to [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over one hundred children between the ages of four to eleven came to the canteen which had been transformed with decorations . |
| 2 | While the Senate had agreed after Collor 's resignation that impeachment was no longer a legal possibility , it voted by 73 votes to eight to continue with the proceedings . |
| 3 | The period of the Attlee governments of 1945–51 was particularly prone to retrospective retouching by the ideologically driven in the mid-1980s , as Paul Addison noted in the Preface to the second of his two outstanding studies of the 1940s : |
| 4 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 5 | As well as comparing overall spending , figures are being prepared on both general funds for academic research ( UGC-type finance ) and separately budgeted research ( equivalent to that funded by the Research Councils ) . |
| 6 | Since SRO 's are required to ensure that their rule books provide investors with protection which is at least adequate in comparison to that afforded by the SIB 's rules , the SRO 's will be obliged to adopt anti-insider dealing rules broadly similar to those of the SIB . |
| 7 | On April 25 the Senate approved by voice vote a $1,450,000 million budget bill broadly similar to that passed by the House . |
| 8 | If the legislature finds that limitations on the common law principle are needed for reasons of policy or good administration then they can be adopted by legislation , e.g. by a short limitation period , presumptions as to validity , even ( which I mention but do not necessarily think appropriate since the matter has not been discussed ) a power in the courts to limit the effects of any order for recovery comparable to that conferred on the European Court of Justice by article 174 of the E.E.C . |
| 9 | ‘ Management rotation , ’ state Kenney and Florida ( 1988 : 134 ) , ‘ results in flexibility and learning by doing similar to that experienced on the shopfloor . |
| 10 | Consequently , the sufferer increasingly cuts himself or herself off from the reality of life as presented by others and continues to blame them for their failure to provide unconditional love and " understanding " comparable to that experienced in the relationship with alcohol or with other substances or behaviour that lead to alteration of mood . |
| 11 | If it is assumed that the expected volume of output is roughly equal to that experienced in the previous year , , then the higher is , the greater will gross investment tend to be . |
| 12 | This is the total opposite to that experienced in the recession of the early 80s when our washroom service suffered badly . |
| 13 | Protection of the Environment … it shall be the task of the legislators to protect the natural basis of man 's existence , with due regard for prevention , the polluter-pays principle and co-operation , and to promote uniform ecological conditions of a high standard at least equivalent to that reached in the FRG … |
| 14 | The polar moment of inertia of the Moon C has been determined from J 2 , and from the physical librations which for the Moon have played an equivalent role in determining C to that played by the rate of polar axis precession in the case of the Earth ( see section 3.2.1 ) . |
| 15 | The mutated promoters all bound cAMP-CRP with the same affinity as the wt-promoter and the mobilities of the two retarded complexes was identical to that observed for the wt-promoter . |
| 16 | On the south side of the town , just north of the bridge crossing the Tyne , a constriction in Dere Street has been noted , of the same width as between the foundations at the north gate ; the length of the ‘ constriction ’ would have accommodated a wall and bank of nearly similar dimensions to that observed on the north side of the town . |
| 17 | In some ways the control is similar to that observed in the cat , in that eye-movement amplitude varied with stimulus intensity . |
| 18 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 19 | Indeed , this person 's role would not have been dissimilar to that undertaken by the present-day funeral director . |
| 20 | This conversion is very similar to that undertaken by the RSA 's Professional Aviation ( who had one of their Jet Prop DC-3 conversions at Farnborough — see page 52 ) and effectively produces a ‘ zero-time ’ aircraft . |
| 21 | It is the escalation of the profiling movement from a diverse and essentially idiosyncratic set of initiatives into a development that looks likely to be rationalized in terms of National Criteria in a very similar way to that imposed on the GCSE itself which makes most problematic the relationship between the two initiatives . |
| 22 | But a further complicating factor is that Watling Street , in its latest phases , points directly to the medieval East Gate , strongly suggesting that here also lay the later Roman gate , most probably on a different site to that belonging to the early defences ; if this is so , then the ditch must have been bridged at the gate . |
| 23 | However , funds provided in the third category would be available only if a country 's domestic policies were adjusted to that prescribed by the Community 's Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | When oleic acid was added to deoxycholate as an emulsion , the release of PYY and enteroglucagon was similar to that seen with the bile salt alone . |
| 25 | For a distance of 1.5kpc and beaming into 3.4 steradian ( an assumed value based on the pulse width ) , this represents 6.1x10 34 ergs -1 or about 1.8% of the spin-down energy loss of 3.4x10 36 ergs -1 , comparable to that seen in the Vela pulsar for similar assumptions . |
| 26 | Damage to the cervical spine from rheumatoid arthritis has been noted in 30% to 46% of necropsy studies and is second in frequency only to that seen in the metatarsophalangeal joints . |
| 27 | This mortality rate is very similar to that seen in the mortality studies for conventional management of acute myocardial infarction without thrombolytic treatment . |
| 28 | A laparoscopic biopsy specimen of this mass ( Fig 4 ) showed diffuse infiltration of hilar connective tissue by inflammatory cells and fibroblasts producing a picture similar to that seen in the original thyroid biopsy specimen . |
| 29 | The cell surface expression of the Eα d /Eβ b/s heterodimer , remained cnstant over the range of Ea copy-numbers , being equivalent to that seen in the control BALB/c mouse spleen ( data not shown ) . |
| 30 | The fit is reasonable over most of the area and , as might be expected , is broadly similar to that given by the Shotgun model . |