Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To enable this to happen in a structured way a formal monitoring apparatus must be set up and continued . |
| 2 | It is reasonable to assume , therefore , that there would be a residue of canine stock , who for one reason or another would be deemed unsuitable to die for the perverted pleasure of the gloating Roman nobility . |
| 3 | Sanctity has little to do with a pietistic other-worldliness and much to do with ordinariness and simplicity — being oneself in God , accepted by the Father , met by the Son , and indwelt by the living Spirit . |
| 4 | This has little to do with a conditioned eye , influenced by architectural orders , and more to do with a basic and instinctive feeling that lifts the spirit and brings about a sense of harmony between the scale of the house and the human frame . |
| 5 | It also can isolate one action from another , so that the total sequence is not relevant ( concentration on washing one 's neck has little to do with the subsequent ‘ sea-side ’ actions — the action of washing one 's neck is but an arbitrary item in a string of actions ) ; |
| 6 | Apart from condemning the abuse of economic power , the Bible has little to say in a positive sense as to what constitutes fair and just wages and prices . |
| 7 | The Select Committee ( 1987 ) examin-ing the working of the 1981 Education Act has this to say about the under-fives and special educational needs : |
| 8 | Middlesbrough teenager Ian McGuckin looks set to continue after an impressive first-team debut against Darlington , while Steve Fletcher could take over in attack from injured Andy Saville . |
| 9 | But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game . |
| 10 | Dalglish looks set to revert to a tried and trusted defensive formula after the 4-2 midweek defeat by Sheffield Wednesday in the Coca-Cola Cup semi-final first leg . |
| 11 | Queen of the South chairman , Willie Harkness , 74 , looks set to resign from the Second Division side and be replaced by Bill Jardine , a club director for 17 years . |
| 12 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 13 | Although he found much to admire in the oriental-megalomaniac architecture of Kim 's Korea or Mao 's China , in his quest for a style suitable for a monumental Bucharest he looked to precedents closer to home . |
| 14 | Although , as we shall see , citizenship has much to do with the individual rights of citizens , the concept lacks the implication of liberal individualism often associated with ‘ human rights ’ and found objectionable by many on the political left . |
| 15 | If , as we have been suggesting , the nature of data has much to do with the theoretical presuppositions which underlie their production , how can it be said that theories are tested by means of exposure to data ? |
| 16 | This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s . |
| 17 | AMNESTY International has much to do in the '90s to maintain its role as the world 's leading human rights movement , Peter Benenson , the organisation 's founder , told the annual Amnesty International Youth Conference last year . |
| 18 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 19 | Britain has much to learn from the Australian experience . |
| 20 | Each has much to offer to the other and there is no question of one tradition being right and the other wrong . |
| 21 | And it is a proposal with wide parliamentary support , including from the powerful Northern League , which has much to gain from an electoral system favouring strong local parties . |
| 22 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 23 | Clarke looks sure to play in the final two Tests on the blind-side of the scrum and his promotion is a huge letdown for the two original selections in that position , Mike Teague and Mick Galwey . |
| 24 | The boom has less to do with an ageing population than a growing interest from collectors and American tourists . |
| 25 | The reason the Government seems to be directing its big guns at unpasteurised milk producers has more to do with the big dairy industry 's concerns at the erosion of their share of the market . |
| 26 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 27 | Bread never went mouldy in Algeria , which meant that so long as I was prepared for a good chew , I could always buy enough to last to the next village . |
| 28 | Sometimes parents rip off stars from charts so often that the child never has enough to exchange for the big reward . |
| 29 | In Tirgu Mures , the HDUR candidate for mayor had been deemed ineligible to stand by a local court ; the party then supported an independent candidate , who won the election but then resigned after revelations that his nomination papers were irregular . |
| 30 | It is only then that they will be deemed ready to report to the flying squadron . |