Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 2 | Suffice to say , whether Boogie , Bop or simply Blues , this set of Brothers , whatever they once were before they fell out and dispatched solicitors to sue their siblings , will be wearing dark glasses , pork pie hats , black side-burns and will be playing Stax/Atlantic type material . |
| 3 | This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation . |
| 4 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 5 | Supporters of a no-confidence referendum had gathered 440,000 signatures to support their demand . |
| 6 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 7 | Rivals pointed to the 35 p.c. to 44 p.c. market share chalked up by Ford in the closing days of March to support their arguments . |
| 8 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 9 | The case could interfere with Annie Murphy 's plans to promote her book ‘ Forbidden Fruit ’ , which gives intimate details about her affair with the bishop . |
| 10 | * Uganda has announced plans to promote its small population of mountain gorillas as a tourist attraction . |
| 11 | Previous nudes , even when taking the form of courtisanes , never allowed the odour of money to tarnish their classical form ; in Olympia , money is clearly at issue , sex becomes a commodity . |
| 12 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 13 | Greenpeace has criticised ICI 's plans for not revealing exactly how much pollution and waste each plant produced in order to enable environmental groups to monitor its progress in reducing them . |
| 14 | This gives us the opportunity to compare their results with MLC targets and actual results from recorded farms , before suggesting general advice on the options available for improvement . ’ |
| 15 | If you sit on a cliff edge on Sea-lion Island to enjoy your pack lunch , as likely as not you will be joined by one or more of these amusing birds . |
| 16 | WILLIAMS , formally ] I am very glad to see you well and I am very glad of an opportunity to acknowledge your good intentions when you believed me in distress . |
| 17 | Accordingly on behalf of Department of Water and Drainage , as owners of the land , I can confirm that you have permission to erect your portable bird hide at Gladhouse subject to the following conditions : |
| 18 | A few deep breaths to steady his racing pulse , and he was ready . |
| 19 | The woman had earlier been refused permission to see her lover , a ’ life partner ’ , as the catholic hospital refused to recognise their relationship as having ’ family status ’ . |
| 20 | Our academic staff will have to compete very hard for the research money to continue their activities , while at the same time maintaining the quality of the teaching they offer students . |
| 21 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 22 | Indeed many are still advice workers and are thus constantly furnished with very real on-going practical experience to support their tutoring role . |
| 23 | Social status would be achieved on the basis of merit in a society where all members have an equal opportunity to realize their talents . |
| 24 | This was , in fact , the key to Franco 's foreign policy throughout the Second World War : he viewed it primarily in terms of an opportunity to realize his own expansionist aims in Morocco . |
| 25 | The children had gone upstairs after lunch , Senga to continue her lessons with Miss Powers , her governess , Patrick to pursue his studies . |
| 26 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 27 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 28 | Towards the end of 1182 Richard was summoned from his war in the Angoumois to attend his father 's Christmas court at Caen . |
| 29 | Mr Anderson has been using the case to support his argument for a change in the law to allow suppliers to recover goods supplied to a customer who goes out of business before paying for them . |
| 30 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |