Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it was to continue in existence the ILP had to reach some agreement , to find some acceptable compromise between " Unity " and " independence " . |
| 2 | In an attempt to reduce the country 's crippling budget deficit the plenum agreed to abolish all subsidies to state enterprises . |
| 3 | By inserting the word Soviet into the actual language of The Circle 's credo the Commission managed to invest this document with sinister implications : it was worthy of Joe McCarthy , though his technique had not yet been launched . |
| 4 | And of course the ego has to do that , I mean if you 're gon na stay alive , the ego has to take account of these internal demands . |
| 5 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 6 | ‘ Interesting place you 've got here , Mr Blufton , ’ commented the sergeant politely , awestruck by the amount of dosh the man had to afford such a place . |
| 7 | 19.1 In the event of the Publisher being involved in or threatened with legal proceedings arising from the publication of the Work the Proprietor agrees to provide such assistance as may be requested by the Publisher . |
| 8 | In return the monarch undertook to protect those who had come under his ‘ high hand ’ . |
| 9 | To be consistent with holism the constructivist has to say that individual ‘ beliefs ’ — mental states that are only in the running for truth — do not correspond to anything in the mind . |
| 10 | Additionally if in relation to the gift the donee seeks to get some benefit over to the donor the transaction may be caught by the associated operations provisions contained in FA 1986 , Sched 20 , para 6(1) ( c ) . |
| 11 | ON MONDAY the Politburo decided to ban all strikes for the next 15 months . |
| 12 | It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer . |
| 13 | I am confident that if my hon. Friend the Minister wants to do this , he can . |
| 14 | As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) . |
| 15 | Broomhead had tied the cabinet to the rave of the cart , lest it fall over and become more scratched if by any faint chance the horse decided to show some signs of life . |
| 16 | This week the hospice want to thank those who gave in memory of Mr Robinson , Mr Herring , Mr Gargett and Mr Nixon . |
| 17 | This theory of the global system , then , revolves around the perceived necessity for global capitalism to continually increase production and international trade , to guarantee the political conditions for this to occur uninterruptedly all over the world , and to create in people the need to want to consume all the products that are available , on a permanent basis . |
| 18 | Neither nor shall be obliged to bring proceedings against any such infringer but if , subject as provided in clause 9.1 , either party shall bring such proceedings the other agrees to execute such documents and do such things as may be necessary to assist in connection with such proceedings . |
| 19 | But that does not take into account the effort required to obtain that benefit . |
| 20 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |
| 21 | A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena . |
| 22 | P35 — At the end of the financial year the employer has to complete this return and send it with the completed P11 's to the Collector of Taxes . |
| 23 | This was a bit of a bombshell , but after determined encouragement from the chaplain the party managed to sing several verses of ‘ The Church 's One Foundation ’ , and were , in fact , rather pleased with themselves as several members had been able to put in the tenor and the bass . |
| 24 | ‘ When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water . |
| 25 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 26 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Seeing my stricken face the producer tried to offer some comfort and advice as he propelled me through the studio door . |
| 28 | It had been anticipated that several of the governors appointed by Congress ( I ) would be replaced by the new government , but rather than make selective changes of those appointees of the former regime the government decided to ask all governors to resign with the intention of reinstating some of them later . |