Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , tighter financial targets increasingly conflicted with the consensual political decision to maintain a certain size of railway system . |
| 2 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 3 | The manager who has the job of making any decision should have the technical skills to make a sensible decision and avoid unnecessary mistakes . |
| 4 | That way we shall have a good idea of all the different kinds of rose , where to look to find the right variety to suit a particular purpose , and more importantly , where not to look , and what to leave alone . |
| 5 | Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present . |
| 6 | As did the Harter Act , COGSA also required that carriers exercise due diligence to provide a seaworthy ship . |
| 7 | Because log-normal distributions follow linear trends on the cumulative probability plot he considered each segment to represent a separate sub-population whose character was determined by the dynamics of transport : traction , saltation and suspension . |
| 8 | Each subject was asked to use each technique to solve a simple problem , having two constraints and one objective . |
| 9 | Though available to either party it is in reality a procedure designed to enable employers faced with weak cases to apply a potential costs sanction to encourage the early demise of weak cases . |
| 10 | The other , which seems to be an obsession for the Prime Minister , was his odd crusade to get a fair deal for the oppressed users of motorway service stations . |
| 11 | But , second , he had pressing political reasons to want a rapid liberation of Paris . |
| 12 | For all its brilliant rhetoric and endearingly dishonest struggle to regain a masculine integrity , Norman Mailer 's defence of D. H. Lawrence in The Prisoner of Sex conveys finally a certain desperation in the face of apprehensions similar to those which Bersani explores . |
| 13 | If he is , attack while he is rising because then he will have little opportunity to launch a powerful counter-attack . |
| 14 | IS IT REALLY ONLY three years since the infamous incident when drunken revellers used champagne to flush a broken nightclub toilet ? |
| 15 | He said Labour plans to devise a comprehensive scheme of transport improvements to suit Britain 's needs . |
| 16 | An alternative to attempting to deal with such matters by a policy of continuous and possibly unsettling adjustment ( by moving departments and personnel around ) would be to allow each branch to become a separate partnership under the aegis of a superimposed managing firm . |
| 17 | In the first half of the nineteenth century , the age-old struggle to reconstitute an ancient text from imperfect manuscript copies was , for the first time , given a proper basis : methodical study of the manuscripts ' interrelationships . |
| 18 | Full participation in society , however , means enabling hitherto under-represented groups to play a full part in shaping their future . |
| 19 | CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop a dilapidated shopping arcade in a town centre have been delayed for at least a year . |
| 20 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 21 | If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances . |
| 22 | The government of the Republic of Hungary will become the first East European administration to adopt an open system strategy across the board , saying it intends to use X/Open Group Co Ltd 's XPG brand in procurement and is to join X/Open 's user council : a government action plan on information technology has been put togther with the assistance of the European Commission and individual national governments within the EEC . |
| 23 | They emigrate to Australia , and do not learn till long afterwards that Ham has died in a vain attempt to save a drowning man , who turns out to be Steerforth . |
| 24 | Fraud essentially occurs for two reasons — inherent criminal intent or the resort to deceit and plunder in a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling empire . |
| 25 | Slowly , he swung his feet down to the floor and sat up , experimentally flexing a pair of broad shoulders to ease an apparent tension . |
| 26 | More importantly , the existing upper floor of this outshot proved to be too close to the lean-to roof to give a habitable room-height , so rather than raise up the roof level of the entire extension , it was decided to reduce the level of the upper floor to create adequate headroom . |
| 27 | There has been very little attempt to produce an adequate framework for monitoring and evaluating such initiatives . |
| 28 | Input-specificity is explained by the need for the presynaptic terminal to provide a sufficient concentration of L-glutamate to activate adequate numbers of NMDA receptors . |
| 29 | When the chart specifies a time outbound such as the 3 minutes on the adjoining pattern , such time is meaningless unless allied with a specific speed to produce a specific distance . |
| 30 | They used minute-to-minute data to fit a simultaneous equations model of the determination of spot and futures prices for the MMI . |