Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This refers to the decision of the NATO countries in December 1979 , when Europe more or less begged the US to act as its protector . |
| 2 | That was the best way to find out how good you were at your job , whether you could regard yourself as being on a par with the best — or still had a lot to learn . |
| 3 | For Dorothy Heathcote , whether the object is a shirt , a piece of leather , a chess-piece , a book or a surgeon 's knife , the teacher 's responsibility is to invite or even compel the children to work from a ‘ frame ’ ( used here in the sociological sense of ‘ perspective ’ ) that requires not engagement , but detachment . |
| 4 | Also the possession of a credit card reduces or even eliminates the need to hold precautionary balances for many people . |
| 5 | He says the councillors will have to find the money from somewhere or even pursaude the Government to give them more . |
| 6 | The judgment given will say where the rights and wrongs lie and the court may award damages to one party or even order a party to take certain positive steps or to refrain from certain action . |
| 7 | I have to say that I can not at present conceive of any circumstances in which this would be other than an abuse of power as directly or indirectly requiring the practitioner to act contrary to the fundamental duty which he owes to his patient . |
| 8 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |
| 9 | The question whether a Regulation that expressly gave the power to tax would itself be ultra vires DORA was not decided . |
| 10 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 11 | Although there has been a vast selection of beautiful waterlilies in cultivation for many years , some of the rarer varieties are slower in producing the development of ‘ eyes ’ on the rootstock that eventually provides the cuttings to propagate new plants , This is why the more desirable lilies are always more expensive . |
| 12 | Instead , they have in place systems that literally force the manager to move around the table during the A&C ; session to sit with the employee and scan the organisation for individual development opportunities . |
| 13 | They differ fundamentally from traditional qualifications , because they give recognition for what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing the ability to learn . |
| 14 | They recognise what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing an ability to learn , which is the primary feature of a written or oral examination . |
| 15 | The actual language of the text , shaped by these constraints , warrants the interpretative/explanatory application of the categories that theorise the mental constraints that purportedly cause the language to take the shape it does . |
| 16 | However , its initial goals are to encourage expression of feelings and the tolerance of uncertainty and change ; to promote a realistic appraisal of personal strengths and weaknesses ; to help with separation and individuation ; and to provide a secure relationship that nevertheless allows the patient to develop independently . |
| 17 | It was this that finally resolved the men to organize a hunt . |
| 18 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 19 | In recent years , moreover , the incidence of backbench revolts among government supporters has increased and the House of Lords has more than once demonstrated an inclination to go its own way . |
| 20 | With constituency support , and the votes of other trade unionists , John Smith was elected Party leader by a larger number of contributing members than ever had the chance to vote for John Major or Paddy Ashdown . |
| 21 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 22 | Huge stands will be erected around the main grass court in early July to ensure more spectators than ever get a chance to witness the talents of some heroes and heroines of yesteryear . |
| 23 | With premiums on many cars set to double AGAIN this year it 's more important than ever to find a way to cut costs on cover . |
| 24 | She desired him , she found him physically attractive to a degree that still had the power to surprise her . |
| 25 | With implications sometimes of the second class , these later books are categorized as ‘ the modern classics ’ , a categorization that also enables the critics to play their game of ‘ spot the classic ’ . |
| 26 | Neither then nor now has the urge to travel been universal . |
| 27 | Be that as it may , the real question at issue is whether the provision was intended simply to provide a remedy in respect of proprietary rights that either entitled the proprietor to have some entry made on the register or entitled the proprietor to have some entry removed from the register or whether the provision should be construed as creating a new cause of action entitling the court to make rectification orders as it might in its discretion think fit in favour of persons who would not under substantive law , apart from paragraph ( b ) , have any proprietary rights which they could assert against the registered proprietor or chargee . |
| 28 | If we now adopt Grice 's meaning-nn as the scope of meaning in the definition of pragmatics in ( 9 ) , we shall include most of the phenomena that we want to include , like the ironic , metaphoric and indirect implications of what we say ( elements 5 , 6 and 7 in Table I.I ) , and exclude the unintended inferences that intuitively have no part to play in a theory of communication . |
| 29 | The task of the RET therapist is to identify , challenge , and thereby help the client to modify core irrational beliefs ( see p. 41 ) . |
| 30 | Already rationalised by Babbage , it was later given its most explicit and systematic expression by F.W. Taylor , whose project was to eliminate the autonomy of the worker by appropriating for management any remaining knowledge or skill involved in the direct production process , to analyse and codify the components of the labour process and thereby to permit the management to lay down standard rules for the expenditure of labour power . |