Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were experienced rescuers at the resort but doctors from the hospital were probably better placed to deal with the victims . ’ |
| 2 | Yet the law imposed prescriptions apparently designed to mark off the Jews from other nations . |
| 3 | But that that contradicted today , when he 's not only threatened to intervene against the Republics that have been attacking their minorities but erm , since he 's become Russian president he 's constantly threatened and the area of and you know denied it sort of national . |
| 4 | Will the Minister ensure that when the Housing Executive engages in new build it will incorporate in every scheme a large number of two-bedroomed bungalows and a number of houses especially built to cater for the needs of the disabled ? |
| 5 | As potential managers they will be better equipped to deal with the complexities of management if they realize that accounting is based on judgement and not on absolutes . |
| 6 | If she had been feeling fitter and healthier , she certainly would have been better equipped to deal with the stresses , and to control her weight gain before it got out of hand . |
| 7 | The Co-op always had refused to sell to Maxwell , but now they HAVE suddenly agreed to sell to the administrators of his estate who now own the whole site . |
| 8 | London is highly geared to respond to the needs of expatriates from many countries . |
| 9 | France announced on June 3 that it would sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , which it had hitherto refused to endorse on the grounds that it compromised France 's nuclear independence . |
| 10 | Lengths should be overlapped , and only cut to fit at the ends , as hessian can shrink as it dries . |
| 11 | It is important to note that the Review Panel is only authorized to apply to the courts on the ground of legal non-compliance , not non-compliance with accounting standards . |
| 12 | The ivy , a monstrous growth after 10 years , was ambitiously and foolishly poised to tumble from the walls to the tidy , frigid gardens beyond ( clearly , it had n't seen them ) . |
| 13 | It was constantly stressed that we are now only qualified to dive in the conditions in which we learnt , that we should always go out with people of greater experience , and that with recreational diving ( which PADI stress this diving is ) , you never go deeper than 30 metres unless you have a specific reason , i.e. a wreck . |
| 14 | This symmetrical formula of benefits and burdens would apply to the consignee of the sea waybill , ‘ or such other person to whom the carrier is duly instructed to deliver under the terms of the sea waybill . ’ |
| 15 | There is a long-standing presumption that Acts of Parliament are not intended to derogate from the requirements of international law . |
| 16 | Even following recession , energy demand is not expected to return to the levels of growth originally predicted . |
| 17 | So while the practice of resignation has been re-established , it is still true that ministers are not expected to suffer for the shortcomings of their staff . |
| 18 | During the campaign for the East German general election in March 1990 [ see pp. 37300-02 ] the party leader , Franz Schönhuber , was repeatedly denied entry to the country and the party was anyway forbidden to participate in the elections because of its neo-Nazi sympathies [ see pp. 37260 ; 37301 ] . |
| 19 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 20 | Adam knelt beside her , thinking of Zosie and Zosie 's mother and stepfather who had not bothered to go to the police when their daughter unaccountably vanished . |
| 21 | Theologians and others should have no special influence , except that , from them would be expected the contribution of those ‘ pearls of wisdom ’ which they , by virtue of their training and studies , are best equipped to extract from the religions and scriptural writings of the past . |
| 22 | Up to the time of voting Ratsiraka had not accepted the new conditions of the Constitution ; his federalist supporters nevertheless agreed to participate in the elections . |
| 23 | The magazine is not bound to agree with the opinions expressed . ] |
| 24 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 25 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 26 | They were nevertheless encouraged to play with the children of other service families , instructed to be polite to these less fortunate beings and discouraged from arrogance . |
| 27 | ‘ It is nothing whatever to do with the cameras which are in any case not allowed to pan along the benches . ’ |
| 28 | I was not allowed to speak to the workers … it seems that their trade union membership is not allowed by the management . |
| 29 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 30 | It 's thought a fault in an electric fire set light to the downstairts bedroom — when the twins father Mark Bettinson smelt smoke flames had already begun to creep towards the twins cots . |