Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age .
2 Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ?
3 This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures .
4 The Evangelicals have become a powerful influence in the land and this lays them open to the wooing of politicians .
5 Some argue it due to the supply of applicants who wish to stand for this view there are certain practical , life-style and attitudinal constraints which seeks a full-time political career .
6 This left him defenceless against the foreign white blood cells in the transfused blood .
7 Though Cash is a former champion , he is no longer willing to commit himself full-time to the game .
8 This leaves them open to the very ‘ panopticism ’ identified by Foucault and Giddens .
9 This brings us near to the suggestion that it was Massalia which provided the Celtic chieftains with a new , more exciting , way of getting drunk at their famous hierarchically organized banquets : wine made mead and beer less prestigious .
10 This makes it awkward for the Fed to act early .
11 This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood .
12 This makes it difficult for a murder to go unrecognised and discourages those planning murders .
13 All this makes it difficult for the Tories to mount a convincing assault on Labour 's drastic plans for Politically Correct social engineering .
14 This makes it important for the designer of the effluent plant to have know-ledge of the textile methods and for him to be informed of changes that may occur .
15 This makes it vital for the pilot to be able to manage any loss of control due to stalling or spiralling without using them .
16 The first accords qualified privilege unconditionally ; the second grants it subject to the condition that a reasonable right of reply must have been afforded to victims of privileged defamations .
17 Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey .
18 I think that shows something wrong with the formula .
19 All three made themselves available for the club committee .
20 Hence the two base changes in the octamer-like sequence in HPV 6/11 compared to HPV 16/18 render it non-functional as a binding site both for the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and the cervical octamer binding protein .
21 The chapter begins by contrasting norm- and Criterion-referenced assessment , the former placing candidates relative to other candidates and the latter placing them relative to a description of performance — a criterion statement .
22 We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person .
23 We all wish him well for the future .
24 We all wish him well in the future . ’
25 District ) , by G. D. H. Cole ( elected President of the Fabian Society in the same year ) , by Richard Hoggart ( then a staff tutor at the University of Hull ) and by Maurice Bruce ( Director of Extra-Mural Studies at Sheffield ) , all proposing something different for the WEA .
26 Much better to make it clear from the start that you 've seen through them , and you still fancy them rotten .
27 While we pause after the first phase of our acceptance are we to rely on exams for all to prove ourselves worthy of the kindly eye of the state ?
28 The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it illegal for an LEA or governors to discriminate on the grounds of colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality against a pupil — ‘ by excluding him from the establishment or subjecting him to any other detriment ’ ( section 17(c) ( ii ) ) .
29 The onset of World War I made him responsible for the design and erection of explosives plant for the Ministry of Munitions , as well as plants for heavy chemicals , dyestuffs , intermediates , and synthetic drugs which , until that time , had been imported from Germany .
30 They must also be able to interview anyone involved in the operation of the aircraft , including the crew if they are available , and to impound all the relevant records , both documentary and electronic .
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