Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these extensive discussions failed to provide a common area of agreement , mainly because of divergent national interests and unfavourable economic developments such as inflation , recession , and the oil crisis . |
| 2 | Neil Kinnock will be in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales where local Labour supporters expect to arrange a small party before he heads for London . |
| 3 | In 1993 , the year that brings an open market to Europe , the European nations seem to take a similar view of Britain , regarding it as a strange and ultimately negligible country . |
| 4 | Some birds manage to nest a second time within the season , and it is these birds , again with recent experience , which breed at the end of the season . |
| 5 | Mussolini and Hitler concentrated power to create highly centralised systems with social policies aimed to create a disciplined mass following . |
| 6 | Only two of the 30 garages managed to do a complete service and , according to Which ? . the RMI members were n't following their association 's guidelines in service schedules and price display boards . |
| 7 | Thatcher 's government had to use community charge capping to limit some authorities desire to levy a high poll tax , high ; that is , relative to the government 's somewhat ill-defined and obscure upper limit . |
| 8 | Would his new French subjects pay to continue a civil war against their compatriots ? |
| 9 | British Waterways expect to complete a national feasability study within a year . |
| 10 | The Board of Deputies of British Jews managed to infiltrate a reliable agent into the IFL for a time in 1937 and his information provides a fascinating glimpse of its workings . |
| 11 | Informed parents have to make a difficult choice . |
| 12 | British officals have to tread a fine line between registering the ‘ UK dimension ’ , as they call it , in the Trident debate , and not offending Congressmen by being too heavy-handed . |
| 13 | Some observers claimed to detect a deliberate move on the part of Suharto and his advisers to distance Indonesia from the USA following criticism by the administration of US President Bush of Indonesia 's human rights record and aspects of its economic policy . |
| 14 | Labouring poets who attempted a realistic description of work and social conditions helped to create a new literary response to social reality , a development most commonly associated with Goldsmith , Langhorne , Blake , Crabbe , and eventually Wordsworth . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , for some five minutes the British guns seemed to gain a temporary advantage . |
| 16 | Opportunist thugs tried to loot a nearby shopping centre and to raid the burnt-out flats but police were quick to move in . |
| 17 | i ) Films of risky junctions tend to contain a great deal of information related to risk . |
| 18 | Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it . |
| 19 | The line to Bathgate , reopened to passengers on 24 March 1986 ( including two new stations at Uphall and Livingston ) at a cost of £1.5million shared by six public bodies expected to see a top figure of 400,000 passengers annually . |
| 20 | There will be shock — usually the haemorrhage of tears , followed by temporary loss of normal function because of depression ; then , if all goes well , and the wound is ‘ nursed ’ with care and patience , it will finally heal , the severed edges uniting to produce a strong and healthy scar . |
| 21 | I am sad to say that some Conservative Members and one or two of my hon. Friends seem to have a little Englander mentality . |
| 22 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 23 | At a further ministerial meeting in August and after a heads of government meeting in Grenada in September , the four Windward islands agreed to create a regional constituent assembly to discuss unity plans and to prepare for a referendum to be held in mid-1991 . |
| 24 | Forty children failed to achieve a normal prepubertal growth velocity of 4 cm per year . |
| 25 | Foreign Ministers agreed to endorse a Middle East peace conference [ see p. 38210 ] " under the auspices of the UN " , but urged that the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) be included " on an equal footing " with all other parties . |
| 26 | What should the division be between public and private spending on health care , and can publicly funded systems continue to offer a comprehensive range of services ? |
| 27 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 28 | After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and , in essence , social democratic programme of the CPSU . |
| 29 | Durie scored with just over 10 minutes remaining to complete a remarkable comeback by Tottenham , who had trailed and been outplayed for prolonged spells . |
| 30 | As well as putting a ceiling on cases of average tetraplegia , the effect of the decision in Housecroft 's case has meant that awards in less serious cases have to bear a proportional relationship to the guideline figure for tetraplegia . |