Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a bit risky to begin on the main pieces of work , so I made a separate swatch . |
| 2 | The ionaz ionization detector , often a little bit quicker to react to a hot blazing type of fire such as your chip pan . |
| 3 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 4 | Wings of Oracle is the first sponsored boat likely to sail in a British Admiral 's Cup team . |
| 5 | Parliament voted on Jan. 17 to renew for a further six months the state of emergency first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] and regularly renewed since then . |
| 6 | Iron combined with organic matter can not be removed by the methods applicable to iron in the ionized form . |
| 7 | Refunds will be provided at point of sale for fans unable to go to the relevant dates . |
| 8 | He wanted the Taiwan Ten to go to a commercial safari park until a ‘ suitable ’ rehabilitation centre could be found . |
| 9 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 10 | For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery . |
| 11 | When investigating an alleged miscarriage of justice , I have always made it a rule first to talk to the convicted man 's trial solicitor as he is likely to be the last man his client would wish to con , or would succeed in conning ii he tried . |
| 12 | For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc . |
| 13 | The Scottish Office has said it would not allow schools with low rolls to opt out , but the parents claim they have enough schools ready to join in a rolling campaign of ballots which would delay closures by two years . |
| 14 | Most of the terraces are preserved as flattenings on spurs and it is possible that similar features might result from wasting of a spur due to attack by the headward erosion of valleys on either side . |
| 15 | The United States House of Representatives had voted on May 22 to incorporate in a foreign aid bill ( which was , however , subsequently defeated ) a provision cutting military aid to El Salvador by 50 per cent , in protest at the failure of the authorities to prosecute the murderers of the priests . |
| 16 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 17 | This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive . |
| 18 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 19 | At France 's instigation the Western European Union ( WEU ) convened in London on Aug. 7 to confer on a possible monitoring role . |
| 20 | From this you can identify the trends and thus assign probabilities to the various types of question likely to appear on the next occasion . |
| 21 | Iraqi aircraft overflew Tehran and the holy city of Qom in January 1984 to demonstrate to the Iranian leadership that no part of Iran , except remote towns like Mashhad , was beyond their reach . |
| 22 | Tudjman , who had urged local leaders in Trogir ( west of Split ) on May 5 to demonstrate at the naval base to show the world their support for the battle being waged by the Croatian leadership , was accused by the Defence Secretariat of inflaming sentiments against the army . |
| 23 | Companies unwilling to move to the older regions had the option of moving to the new towns . |
| 24 | Global Biodiversity Strategy , a blueprint for conservation prepared by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) , the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) and the World Resources Institute , has suggested that third world countries should declare sovereignty over their genetic resources as a means of protecting the earth 's diversity of species , and allowing the countries concerned to profit from the growing demand for plants and animals . |
| 25 | In the specific example of Fig. 3.16 ( your guess is correct if you think that the arrangement has something to do with electrical machines ) there is a current-carrying loop capable to rotate around the horizontal axis in the magnetic flux ( assumed constant ) of the permanent magnet . |
| 26 | Armenian guerrillas seized some 40 Soviet Interior Ministry troops in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Aug. 13 to exchange for a militant Armenian leader Zh . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly they 're the most expensive too and the only type suitable to use with a pocket-sprung mattress . |
| 28 | ( The Executive Committee and the Supreme Council for the Defence of the Homeland had both been formed in February 1989 to act as a central leadership under the country 's emergency regulations — see pp. 36449-50 . ) |
| 29 | Working towards achieving the certificate will ensure that you are gaining experience in all the areas necessary to work within a specific sector of the freight industry . |
| 30 | Havel , who had been elected in December 1989 to serve in an interim capacity [ see p. 37107 ] , was the sole candidate ; a number of other individuals had been disqualified , not having been nominated by parliamentary deputies , while Stefan Kvietik , nominated by the Slovak National Party , had withdrawn . |