Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He also planned an archaeological park to embrace most of the classical monuments inside the city .
2 The presentations of the results followed the same format as last year and journalists invited to Blackfriars were given the opportunity to sample some of the own brand products introduced into stores in 1992/93 .
3 The reorganisation presented an opportunity to redress some of the old inequalities .
4 The following morning there will be an opportunity to tour some of the local cultural attractions in informal groups .
5 There was a willingness to accept most of the new social and economic measures but to administer them as tightly as possible and to cut the cost of government .
6 I very much appreciated the opportunity to meet some of the hon. Gentleman 's constituents in a delegation .
7 She is the successor of the great russian musician Samuel Feinberg , the first Soviet pianist to perform all of the Well-Tempered Clavier in concert , and Nikolayeva 's conception of work is pure , simple , lucid yet varied , romantic and at times highly individual .
8 DECEMBER ISSUE OF GOLF MONTHLY ON SALE NOVEMBER 12 DO N'T MISS YOUR COPY PLUS GOOD VALUE GOLF We travel to the Scottish Borders to find some of the best golfing bargains in the British Isles
9 The current emphasis on systems analysis tends to hide this fact , yet in both Konrad Lorenz 's famous hydraulic model and Niko Tinbergen 's attempt to relate this to the functioning nervous system no feedback loops at all were incorporated .
10 The mayor of Yeravan used his official car to evacuate some of the wounded .
11 Social class and rural-urban contrasts , and different relations with British colonial states and education systems , are very likely to be involved as causal influences here , and Swann could well have commissioned research to explore some of the underlying issues .
12 Analyses will be undertaken using these methods to identify some of the important factors determining migration and employment behaviour in the British Isles .
13 It would be wrong , however , to think that Callaghan 's speech was dreamed up on the spur of the moment , in an attempt to steal some of the educational clothes of his political opponents .
14 It may be very difficult for the supplier 's marketing department to identify all of the individual sources of influence , or to evaluate their relative significance .
15 On the North American mainland the transportation of convicts meant that there was some non-free white labour to do much of the hardest work in growing rice and tobacco .
16 In our concern to manage the lives of others and our intention to do this in the best interests of all , we can too often simply define those who cry out in despair as moaners , as ‘ deviants ’ , ‘ defectives ’ , or as the lazy ones who have n't played the game in the way they should .
17 He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter .
18 Japan has no significant domestic oil resources , which explains its wartime bid to seize those of the Dutch East Indies in 1942 .
19 What follows is an attempt to understand some of the historical problems of left film and television criticism and to encourage debate about its future .
20 He wore African clothes , his room was an African shrine and he made no attempt to befriend any of the British students .
21 Clearly worried by growing opposition to reforms that have drastically eroded living standards , Mr Yeltsin reshuffled his government last week in an attempt to shield some of the younger , more radical ministers he appointed last autumn from the wrath of the Congress .
22 I have included this somewhat lengthy account of the inception of the AEP since it does a good deal to explain some of the subsequent strengths and weaknesses of these highly influential programmes .
23 US firms have been incensed at the number and size of claims filed against thrifts ' professional advisers by RTC , and have accused the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ in an attempt to recover some of the billions of dollars US taxpayers lost when the S&L industry collapsed .
24 However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness .
25 It remains AEA 's intention to achieve this on a voluntary basis to the greatest extent possible .
26 er er is an attempt to follow some of the same processes , bulk buying , and erm to reduce the costs , wh which are there no matter who gets paid for what , the there are some costs .
27 And they were refused permission to visit any of the sick children .
28 At Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire there is a 1.25 mile boardwalk , enabling visitors to see much of the interesting flora and fauna of this special place .
29 Insofar as this affected the ECSC negotiations , it gave West Germany a far stronger hand and enabled its negotiators to resist some of the French demands , especially those which were aimed at a deconcentration and decartelisation of West Germany 's heavy industries , and to pursue more urgently its own point of view on the future of the Saar .
30 Although the French waterlily hybridiser Joseph Latour Marliac concentrated on producing hardy varieties it is believed that he used the semi tropical waterlily N. mexicana to create some of the popular varieties available today .
  Next page