Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long , surprisingly thick mid-mounted wing , a legacy of the Fouga company 's glider-producing background , should endow low induced drag , although the myriad accessory-cooling slots and intakes on the engine casing and odd lumps and bumps of antennas on the aft body must dirty the otherwise-clean tandem configuration . |
| 2 | Nucleotide positions of parthenogenesis and incompatibility bacteria are shown that distinguish the two sequence subgroups . |
| 3 | He could hear John breathing , and in the distance , distinguish the dim shape of the sapper . |
| 4 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 5 | Two main differences , besides the obvious ones of speed , scale and aspirations , distinguish the French strike waves from the Italian . |
| 6 | Identify and discuss language features that are distinctive of the register of the newspapers , I E features common in all three newspaper articles but infrequent or non-existent in the non-use paper shapes the language features if any that distinguish the three newspaper articles from each other with emphasis on vocabulary , adjectives erm and bias and the essay title the essay length between three thousand five hundred words and our purpose in discussing this tonight as professional communicators is to help a mature overseas student of English . |
| 7 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 8 | And his hat-trick for Wales earlier this month against the Faroe Islands puts him on 23 goals for his country — equalling the Welsh record held jointly by Trevor Ford and Ivor Allchurch . |
| 9 | Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal , factory unit or traffic warden . |
| 10 | In the previous chapter we identified the major variables which influence the current account of the balance of payments and examined how automatic and discretionary adjustments operate to rectify payments imbalances . |
| 11 | How far do select committees influence the general atmosphere in the House of Commons ? |
| 12 | The doctor 's expectations as to how the elderly patient should behave influence the actual behaviour of the elderly patient by non-verbal communication . ’ |
| 13 | Whichever factors influence the calving pattern , be it Autumn or Spring , each will have its own problems . |
| 14 | The variety of stresses that affect biological systems and influence the immune system 's potentiality are as follows : |
| 15 | In terms of policy influence the New Right captured the intellectual and political high ground in Britain and many other countries throughout the 1980s . |
| 16 | The target groups for a day hospital for dementing patients would be the 3 lowest categories — C , D and E. All category E patients would be included as well as a proportion of those in group D and a smaller proportion of group C. Although inevitably factors such as level of agreement to use day hospital facilities and the frequency of attendance of patients influence the final figure , 7–9 day places is not an unrealistic figure , though this exceeds current nationally derived guidelines . |
| 17 | This data enables us to draw clear conclusions concerning the presence of B II conformations within the dodecamer under study and also points to more general rules which influence the probable appearance of such conformations within other sequences . |
| 18 | Less obvious , but equally important factors concern the economic and market distortions which influence the comparative disadvantage of many areas . |
| 19 | Humans , when reading , often miss spelling errors , because their expectations of what the text should say , influence the visual system , so that they read the intended word , rather than what is actually in front of them . |
| 20 | They influence the pituitary gland , promote male characteristics and may affect menstruation . |
| 21 | It is by following up such topics that this subject can truly come alive for the reader — banking and finance ( domestic or international ) influence the everyday life of most people . |
| 22 | On this account , several types of information influence the on-line interpretation of anaphors , though for any particular kind of anaphor one type of information predominates in determining considered judgements . |
| 23 | POU domain genes encode a family of highly conserved transacting factors that influence the transcriptional activity of several cell type-specific and ubiquitous genes . |
| 24 | Economic pressures producing changes in family structure may , for example , influence the higher-order structure of society only a generation or two later . |
| 25 | Religious Education should provide the context for and substantially influence the whole school curriculum . |
| 26 | Fourthly , and last , there are variations in external context that influence the visionary process . |
| 27 | The objective at every stage of lobbying is to provide comments and reactions to those who influence the legislative process . |
| 28 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 29 | The badly shaken Wiltern knows that if it does , however , he will lose his one chance to nail the biggest cocaine supplier in Los Angeles . |
| 30 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |