Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had arranged for the ‘ leaking ’ of a letter he had circulated to all the delegates due to attend the presidential election in Paris on October 9 . |
| 2 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 3 | It was not possible to compare the 26-way tree , reduced memory tree and trie directly with the dawg because the word lists used in the earlier experiments were no longer available . |
| 4 | It had not even proved possible to enforce the 1891 Factory Act , which obliged all women to take one month off after childbirth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By building up a good soil structure and providing conditions where all the natural soil flora and fauna can thrive , it is possible to realize the full potential of any piece of land , and to grow on it vigorous , healthy crops and livestock . |
| 7 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 8 | Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula . |
| 9 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 10 | Using the employment information contained in SPIR and in the responses , it was possible to estimate the overall employment in exporting companies . |
| 11 | Using the employment information contained in SPIR and in the responses , and from a telephone survey on the exporting status of non-respondents , it was possible to estimate the overall employment in all exporting companies in Scotland . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , there was a simple weight-loss equation on which it was possible to estimate the maximum amount of weight likely to be lost each week on any specific calorie allowance . |
| 13 | The rear of the Toyota was only just clear of the water as I jumped out , checking to see if it would be possible using the low gear to push the rock over the edge . |
| 14 | Provenance studies of sandstone sequences are possible using the modal composition plus maturity indicators ( Fig. 5.10 ; Table 5.5 ) ( Valloni & maynard , 1981 ; Dickinson , 1985 ; Valloni , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | It seems exactly right to see the whole family sitting on a sofa together as Joseph meets his new sister at the end . |
| 16 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 17 | It is possible to lose the entire speech off a computer disk . |
| 18 | Obviously it should not be possible to evade the statutory immunity by pleading the genus and relying on the species as unlawful means , but there would seem to be no statutory protection if the unlawful means take any other form such as nuisance or trespass . |
| 19 | However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion . |
| 20 | That cash aid is due to run out on March 31 and unit organiser Kate Harker said there were concerns that without the Government money it would not be possible to continue the same level of service . |
| 21 | If all exports and imports were originally declared in terms of dinars and then converted into ‘ statistical ’ dollars , it should be possible to reconstitute the original dinar values by multiplying up by the ‘ statistical ’ value of the dollar in terms of dinars . |
| 22 | Of course you are absolutely right to emphasise the crucial importance of bringing down inflation ; the current deep recession will achieve this . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend is right to emphasise the great importance that we attach to a successful GATT round . |
| 24 | He is right to emphasise the general safety level of the railways , which compares favourably with all other modes of transport . |
| 25 | After all our travels we were sorry to see the trusty GRiD go . |
| 26 | The rapidity of expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century makes it possible to treat the chemical industry , for instance , as virtually a new creation . |
| 27 | The solution suggested above allows the very low synonym levels of a multi-record bucket — in this case a track — to be combined with the CKD format of individually stored records , which makes it possible to search the whole track and retrieve only the desired record . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Ford said : ‘ We want to cut costs and make sure money is being spent in the best way possible to promote the new range . ’ |
| 30 | In the surgical specialties the problem of allocating time to research is particularly acute given the long apprenticeship necessary to learn technical skills . |