Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to existing local authority plans , LDDC explicitly encouraged mainly private housing to diversify the existing housing stock which was 80 per cent council housing . |
| 2 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 3 | Socially the target of Scottish Homes to diversify the rented sector and encourage community regeneration has also been achieved . |
| 4 | The effects must be charming , to see the dark green elm with the lighter shades of the lime and beech or the yellowish green planes with the silver-leaved abele , the Chestnut , the poplar , the acacia , the horse-chestnut , cum multis aliis , when fanned by a gentle breeze , then how beautiful the contrast , how delightfully the light and shade fall in to diversify the sylvan scene . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Dear Santa , as a well respected manager of the best supported premier league team in England please could you find it in your heart to deliever the following . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Edward probably realized , after the failure of the Rheims campaign , that he lacked the resources to mount the kind of campaign that would be necessary to compel the French to accept the Treaty of London . |
| 13 | However , maybe Stalinvast still survived , and the Tormentum Malorum might yet leave the warp in time for him to compel the old woman to send a signal to save the situation . |
| 14 | If permission is refused to a Part I application , no direct compensation is paid , but it may well be possible to compel the local authority to purchase the property compulsorily if it can be shown that the property has no reasonable beneficial use . |
| 15 | ‘ It took a war to compel the British to look at themselves and find themselves interesting , ’ Dilys Powell was later to remark . |
| 16 | It is true that policy-makers in Washington often saw themselves as using financial inducements to compel the British to act as they desired . |
| 17 | In addition , the conference was forced to accept the need to organize a campaign to compel the National government to drop its policy of non-intervention , an action which led to the formation of the Spain Campaign Committee . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Sorry to get you here so early , ’ he said , ‘ but Angela 's death means we have to reorganize the entire workload , and I wanted a longer meeting today . |
| 20 | Hérard Abraham fulfilled his promise to reorganize the Presidential Guard , which had served as an important prop of the Avril regime , but the Army as a whole seemed unwilling to become involved in imposing authority . |
| 21 | There should be a need to reorganize the whole time-scale of a current c , merely to fit the software into the work schedule . |
| 22 | He helped to reorganize the local golf course so that students could play legally and cheaply . |
| 23 | If the times at which additions are expected can be predicted , it may be wise to hold additions in an ancillary file until each ‘ burst ’ of activity is over and then to reorganize the main file to include them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The rear was characterised by slightly excessive overhang — needed to accommodate the spare wheel and gearbox — terminating in a slightly recessed , clipped surface that reiterated the current thinking of Ferrari competition cars , enriched by the shaped light clusters and fine louvres . |
| 26 | It is among a small number of churches designed specifically to accommodate the liturgical changes which followed from the Second Vatican Council . |
| 27 | ALTERNATIVE arrangements for traffic in the north west will operate today to accommodate the annual North West 200 motorcycle race . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |