Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 2 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 3 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 4 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 5 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 7 | The suit also poisoned potential investors against Addamax which needed more money to exploit its technology , he said . |
| 8 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 9 | De Valera himself resisted right-wing pressures to enhance the role of the church in the Irish state and successfully opposed tendencies to fascism apparent in Irish paramilitary movements of the thirties ( Manning 1970 ) . |
| 10 | I look forward to tackling the Party membership system , I wanted to make some of the sound admin system and modern communication methods which allow this Union to send each new member a new membership card , were introduced to Walworth Road . |
| 11 | But the considerations which persuaded this House to hold that there was a discretion whether or not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown in a law enforcement action are equally applicable to cases in which some other public authority is charged with the enforcement of the law : see e.g. Lord Reid , at p. 341g , Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest , at p. 352c , and Lord Cross of Chelsea , at p. 371b–g . |
| 12 | There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content . |
| 13 | The Company 's objectives are to : Manage effectively its existing reserves portfolio ; find and develop efficiently additional reserves which offer significant potential to add value for shareholders ; build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices ; and provide a strong financial base to support its operations . |
| 14 | The employment prospects of those who are voluntary casuals and who seek only occasional work is usually secured by the networks of reciprocity linking them to the organizations which have such work to offer . |
| 15 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 16 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 17 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 18 | In its pure form , models are logically derived and then tested on historical data but I also include here most forms of quantitative research which use such data to test predefined hypotheses . |
| 19 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 20 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 21 | ‘ The work goes on , one week like another , and pretty incessant until Friday night , and then the break which gives one time to get one 's breath again , ’ he wrote to his mother two months after becoming Prime Minister . |
| 22 | The fiery and provocative pontificate of Pope Gregory VII may well have inspired the search which brought this manuscript to light . |
| 23 | The amnesty covered all crimes committed to date under the country 's security and military legislation , and was agreed under the terms of the accord which committed both sides to release all but common criminals . |
| 24 | Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence . |
| 25 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 26 | 280 , the defendants , owners of a newspaper , carried an advertisement in each issue informing readers who wanted financial advice to write to a given address . |
| 27 | Dawn has been eyeing up her own customers as well as the shoppers who frequent rival stores to come up with an in-vogue verdict on local tastes . |
| 28 | A side effect of such a procedure would be to strengthen the position of the individual auditor both in relation to his clients and to his ‘ partner equivalents ’ ; in today 's highly competitive audit market , the auditor does encounter clients who exert considerable pressure to accept controversial accounting practices . |
| 29 | The Department pledges its support to staff who work within the spirit of the Guidelines set out in this document , and will make it clear that as a Department we are not prepared to accept threats of intimidation and violence from that small number of clients who use such methods to manipulate their social environment or evade responsibility for their behaviour . |
| 30 | As he snipped several inches off the length of Aimee 's hair , he pointed out why he encourages all his clients who have fine hair to keep it in a short style — or at least above their shoulders . |