Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out .
2 However it is important that local planning authorities are encouraged to ensure that such conditions are practically enforceable .
3 Erm authorities are expected to show that environmental concerns have been comprehensively and consistently taken into adv erm account in their plans .
4 It is therefore important that steps are taken to ensure that mature entrants to these discipline areas are adequately prepared for their studies .
5 But doubts are bound to linger and further clarifications are required to dispel them .
6 Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors .
7 A couple of paragraphs of lay anthropology were added to suggest that black people in Africa had accomplished ‘ virtually nothing ’ before ‘ the White Man came ’ .
8 The stress on Levi 's insensitivity to religion is allowed to suggest that all Jews are religious , and there are readers for whom this might signal the corollary that all Jews are Zionists , and are likely to be supporters of Israeli government policy .
9 or another remedy is needed to follow before complete resolution occurs .
10 Such opposition is bound to spread as further prospecting continues in all provinces .
11 Such an approach to the status of international law is not theoretically neutral ; rather it is a manifestation of that most popular of all jurisprudential theories , the sanction or imperative theory of law in which some version of Austinianism is deployed to say that international law is not a command backed by the effective threat of the use of force against non-compliance and is therefore not law ( Austin , 1861 ) .
12 A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally .
13 An attempt is made to demonstrate that this reasoning is faulty and that the disintegration of the Byzantine state was accompanied by economic growth in the provinces which reinforced the power of the provincial aristocracy in relation to the state .
14 As his eyes , blue and flinty , held hers , Shiona was tempted to protest that that was n't fair .
15 Earlier this week government research was published showing that 32 out of 102 ovens failed to heat food uniformly to at least 70C , the temperature necessary to kill listeria , salmonella and other food poisoning bacteria .
16 The present study was designed to test whether massive ( 90% ) PSBR would remove sufficient enteroendocrine cells to prevent the hypercholecystokininaemia of lesser enterectomies and , if not , whether the CCK receptor antagonist CR-1409 would blunt the adaptive response of the pancreas .
17 An attempt was made to determine if fluid transport varied between days 6 and 9 .
18 The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards .
19 Ann was helped to see that this problem originally resulted from displaced resentments about Charles 's infidelity .
20 The ‘ going abroad tide ’ with its mixture of motivations , sentiments and contradictions was set to continue as long as the leadership refused to address the major reasons behind it .
21 The pick-up truck they used to drive to the coast was found abandoned and bloodstained nearby .
22 If companies are going to prosper when economic conditions improve , how should these information needs be satisfied ?
23 Will my hon. Friend assure my constituents and the House that the Conservative party and Ministers in Scotland are fighting to ensure that that workshop , which has a record of excellence and can carry out plating work which saves the Government millions of pounds on buying replacement parts , will continue because of its record and not for sentimental reasons ?
24 But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested .
25 At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially .
26 Engineers were reported to suspect that one of the telescope 's two mirrors had been manufactured to slightly incorrect specifications , resulting in a distortion of images in the visible spectrum .
27 However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C .
28 In the long run it is by making efficient investment decisions that capacity is adjusted to ensure that this price also reflects long-run marginal cost .
29 Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’
30 The police committee is asked to consider whether local government should begin to contribute towards Victim Support schemes .
  Next page