Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists . |
| 2 | It is certainly possible for Parliament to give limited powers of government to local authorities and to local and national assemblies but the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty means that a subsequent Parliament can repeal the relevant legislation and take back the power . |
| 3 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 4 | Alan McLaren : grateful for chance to extend international education |
| 5 | First , that for liberty to have real meaning the standards of community provision must be high and access to that provision must be wide . |
| 6 | These fruits were traditionally sun-dried after fumigation to remove any bugs and insects , but many are not dried by accelerated methods to cut the processing time and , therefore , the costs . |
| 7 | In studies of disability , I have been surprised by the number of sexually handicapped people in their fifties and beyond who have consoled themselves with the belief that they are , in any case , too old for sex to have much meaning . |
| 8 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 9 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
| 10 | This of course leaves enough space for carrying the supplied channel change , chorus off/on footswitch , a few leads etc . |
| 11 | This of course raises other questions about access . |
| 12 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 13 | The retailer needs to do this in order to predict future sales . |
| 14 | Questions such as , ‘ Do you feel that you might be doing this in order to produce this kind of feeling or situation ? ’ , can lead counsellees to a re-examination of their motives . |
| 15 | Separation of the upper third of the continental crust on a plate has the effect of reducing the overall buoyancy of the subducted crust by nearly one-half , and this in turn allows more subduction than would otherwise have occurred . |
| 16 | This in turn had important consequences in the current historical view of the period , in perpetuating the proposition laid down by Wheeler in his Verulamium Report , that the decline of urban life in Britain in the third century was so catastrophic , that it was followed by only a partial and short-lived revival under Constantius Chlorus , and then by a steady decline into the Dark Ages . |
| 17 | This in turn attracted more lenders into the market , and made borrowing more attractive . |
| 18 | This in turn presupposes class-related factors like expectations of female academic excellence , and freedom from childcare , domestic work , and ‘ irrelevant cares and concerns ’ ( Puffer quoted in Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 19 | In the first place , the internal structure of the state leads to processes of bargaining within the state and between its agencies and interests of civil society , and this in turn raises further questions on the nature and coherence of state policy . |
| 20 | This in turn raises subsidiary questions such as the recruitment and length of tenure of members of the executive and the assembly , their formal and informal sources of power with respect to each other , and wider issues such as political traditions , especially those of the party system . |
| 21 | The Jews of Poland in particular were to absorb the shock of the German economic drive to the east since it was often conducted by emancipated German Jews — and this in turn fostered Polish anti-Semitism . |
| 22 | To a creamy sauce for white fish such as John Dory , brill and sole , to dishes of molluscs such as mussels and scallops , its concentrated , pungent-sweet and aromatic qualities give a lift such as could hardly be achieved with a mountain of fennel stalks or seeds used in the preparation of the initial stock ( anise is a close relation of fennel , caraway and dill ) , and this in turn gives one ideas as to the use of many other liqueurs , aromatic vermouths , country wines , even drinks such as Pernod and Pastis in the cooking of fish and white meat and poultry dishes . |
| 23 | This in turn implies increased autonomy for assessing practitioners resulting perhaps in a new level of autonomy and new systems of accountability . |
| 24 | This in effect gives statutory force to the judicial monitoring procedure which was introduced in 1980 . |
| 25 | Kisling allowed Modigliani to use his studio , often lent him brushes and paints and behaved with a careless generosity towards him , but the two men were too different in temperament to become intimate friends . |
| 26 | The acquisition phase can be on-going in order to add new examples of characters to the database . |
| 27 | To destroy such a man may be necessary and unavoidable in order to protect other members of society . |
| 28 | They were mostly a little lonely and disorientated , enjoying none of the ( few ) advantages of the ordinary boarding-school , and too few in number to feel any sense of corporate identity . |
| 29 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 30 | There are also provisions in the legislation for one local authority to perform a service on behalf of another in order to prevent wasteful overlap in provision . |