Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important motivator for units to apply for trust status was the freedom to borrow from the public and private sectors to finance capital investment . |
| 2 | The decision to proceed with the hydro-electric and irrigation project has been taken despite the fact that essential funding from the EC has yet to be approved . |
| 3 | To quote Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) again : ‘ The moves beyond Rayner to the FMI represent attempts to work within the political and organisation system , rather than against it and to couch debate in terms of means rather than ends ’ . |
| 4 | You should certainly benefit from some kind of major career or professional change to come around the 4th and the 11th . |
| 5 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |
| 6 | The last general election , in June 1990 [ see pp. 37542-43 ] , had given deputies a two-year mandate to agree on a federal and regional constitutional framework . |
| 7 | In the last five years there has been a clear commitment from the Nursery/First , Middle and Comprehensive schools to work in a co-operative and supportive way , resulting in a pyramid of schools developing coherence and continuity for young people in the area from the ages 3–16 . |
| 8 | ‘ It is an individual and collective responsibility of all Welsh rugby fans to behave in a courteous and acceptable way . ’ |
| 9 | He was imprisoned up there , beneath the lead roof , ’ Lucenzo said , pulling her close , his head against hers as she craned her neck to look at the pink and white Doges ' Palace . |
| 10 | In the intervening five years the socialists have allowed the national stock of houses to deteriorate gravely , have allowed the building industry to drift into an inefficient and wholly artificial pattern , and have done their best to disorganise the building materials industries . |
| 11 | News travels fast on the gossip grapevine in any small community , and the watching townsfolk that night thoroughly approved that their sheriff was at last taking steps to deal with the unfriendly and unwelcome strangers who had secluded themselves at ‘ the ol' Bentsen place up th'road ’ . |
| 12 | Tim Jarvis says it 's always been his ambition to ride in the National and now he wants to go one step further . |
| 13 | The man who had severed his traditional local ties to live in the impersonal and anonymous city searched for something he could identify with , for new loyalties and attachments . |
| 14 | In 1965 , the then Labour government introduced a scheme of reform requiring local authorities to take steps to dispense with the Eleven-plus and introduce a scheme of comprehensive education . |
| 15 | Shogun , having come off best in a bout of shoving with Day Comet , was making ground up the rails when Reiff moved Craganour over to lean on Aboyeur , causing the outsider to swerve to the left and cut off Shogun 's run on the inside . |
| 16 | It is always a pleasure to reply to the beguiling and dulcet tones of the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) . |
| 17 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 18 | If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved . |
| 19 | The strategy proposes removing constraints on EC biotechnology industry , whilst setting up a committee to deal with the moral and ethical issues raised by genetic , environmental and human embryo research . |
| 20 | March , April and May are the periods to watch for the sudden and the unexpected , although virtually every month contains a potential departure or arrival point , an ending or a beginning . |
| 21 | Given that decision makers often deal with complex problems , there is a requirement to think beyond the obvious and usual solutions to such problems and to consider innovative solutions . |
| 22 | In general , de Gaulle was acutely aware of the danger of being boxed in by his own institutions and losing the capacity to act as an individual and to exert his personal will . |
| 23 | Justinette insisted on linking her arm through Ari 's , dragging her to every shop window to exclaim over the bright and tempting , useless gimmickry to be found within . |
| 24 | Granted that there is an absolute need for humanistic values to prevail in a neo-utilitarian and materialistic age , one is faced with a significant divergence in the nature of these values . |
| 25 | However , it seems unlikely that the political will existed among many rural authorities to embark upon a rapid and expensive programme of housing construction . |
| 26 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 27 | At present resources are limited , but there are courses and retreats which offer the opportunity to focus on the spiritual and emotional aspects of HIV in the safety of a non-judgmental and totally confidential environment . |
| 28 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |
| 29 | They also descend into the deeper caverns to search for the wild and exotic funguses which they use to make powerful magic potions . |
| 30 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |