Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 2 | It left me fatigued and in the mood to fall asleep every time I sat down . ’ |
| 3 | In the first place it was his duty to preserve intact the lands and rights entrusted to his care . |
| 4 | Expect things to go wrong a lot of the time . |
| 5 | Foreigners are always apt to find charming the examples they come across of quaint anachronisms , of dated anomalies , in English life . |
| 6 | But you 've got to know shallow a wider range . |
| 7 | And he used to come regular every Friday . |
| 8 | Well and he used to come regular every Friday afternoon , and he used to go the s a ch lower down you know , after you pass the police station on the left there , there used to be a butcher 's place there . |
| 9 | One project Iraq was no doubt relieved to see never brought to pass concerned the much spoken-of Majnun field . |
| 10 | A court would , I submit , be slow to find liable a doctor who merely facilitated the self-determination of someone unable through illness to help himself . |
| 11 | I further submit that when properly understood , it is sufficiently sensitive to the diverse realities it would seek to regulate to render uncalled-for the criticisms and apprehensions reflected in recourse ( now often ritualized ) to the term ‘ defensive medicine ’ . |
| 12 | However in the course of giving the judgment , with which all their Lordships concurred , Lord Diplock stated once again that the result of the Anisminic decision was to render unnecessary the continued distinction between errors of law going to jurisdiction , and errors of law within jurisdiction . |
| 13 | Please indicate on your Application Form whether you would like to receive free the Telephone Radio Alarm or Three-Piece Luggage Set shown overleaf . |
| 14 | From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … . |
| 15 | to set free the oppressed |
| 16 | So , article one feudal exploitation by the landlord class shall be abolished and the system of peasant land ownership shall be introduced in order to set free the rural productive forces , develop agricultural production and thus pave the way for new China 's industrialization . |
| 17 | Psychologists of vision , for example , have to think in terms of levels of representation that the nervous system computes and not to do so would be to render unintelligible the processes that occur between the transducing of light-rays into electrical impulses at the retina and the cortex recording the object as ( say ) a rigid cylinder rotating at such and such a distance from the viewing point . |
| 18 | This view accepts that these general principles can apply to render illegal the use of weapons , even new weapons , which are not covered by any specific ban . |
| 19 | Reference has already been made to the way in which developments in medicine began , in the late nineteenth century , to render inadequate the traditional poor law approach to the care of the sick . |
| 20 | In the Admissibility of Hearings of Petitioners the International Court of Justice advised that oral hearings before the Committee for South West Africa could be granted to inhabitants of the territory to further the development of the international institution , and to render effective the General Assembly 's supervisory role . |
| 21 | The alleged libel is contained in a letter written by the defendant to the editor of the ‘ Manchester Examiner and Times ’ , which charged , as alleged by the statement of claim , that bribery and corruption existed or had existed in three departments of the Manchester City Council , and that the plaintiffs were either parties thereto or culpably ignorant thereof , and that the said bribery and corruption prevailed to such an extent as to render necessary an inquiry by a parliamentary commission . |
| 22 | So far , I have attempted in limited compass to render plausible the claim that an account of law which synthesizes salient features of natural law and positivism is possible . |
| 23 | A freshly bought loaf , still warm from the oven , smells and tastes delicious — but we would not expect it to taste good a week later . |
| 24 | Clients now became appreciative of specialisms and saw the basic good sense of employing the building specialist , not only to put right a defect , but also to refurbish entire buildings . |
| 25 | But if she wants to put right a mistake , she may keep a promise like that . ’ |
| 26 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 27 | But this would still leave us wishing to put right the remaining 10 per cent . |
| 28 | Senior civil servants and ministers must themselves take initiatives to put right the current barbarities . |
| 29 | And at least you wanted to put right the wrong by offering to marry me . ’ |
| 30 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |