Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any Government and any industry in the public or private sector has to face those challenges in not only Britain but other countries . |
| 2 | Right now , no established wholesale or retail infrastructure exists to channel these new products to the customers . |
| 3 | If a registered or occasional student fails to meet such requirements in relation to the payment of debts as the Council may prescribe , his enrolment may be revoked at any time by the Academic Registrar acting under the authority of the Senate . |
| 4 | Gaps in understanding of the disease and its treatment and the unsuitable characteristics of available diagnostic tools mean that prostatic cancer fails to meet most of the standard epidemiological criteria required for a successful screening programme . |
| 5 | Although recent research appears to raise some uncertainty about the purchase of commissions in the artillery and engineers , purchase certainly had a less prominent place in the promotions in the technical corps . |
| 6 | The one Minister with the political courage and economic sense to attempt to alleviate this situation by using the price mechanism selectively was Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 7 | The political role of the army became ever greater as the 1930s progressed , and the problems posed by population expansion , protectionism in international trade and agricultural impoverishment helped to unite much of the population behind an aggressive search for territorial expansion , Asian leadership and economic autarky . |
| 8 | In outlining an argument against multi-racial immigration , such new right authors might justify themselves in terms of so-called ‘ national feelings ’ but argumentative rhetoric and semantic history combine to leave such a phrase as ‘ national prejudices ’ to their opponents . |
| 9 | If central government wishes to increase those expenditure levels when they go over , that is down to them . |
| 10 | Both acute and chronic pancreatitis seemed to cause less need for a stay in hospital in Finnish women than in Finnish men . |
| 11 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 12 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 13 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is the weakness of their cases which explains the hysteria , the over-blown rhetoric and bogus indignation used to justify these measures . |
| 15 | Sophisticated equipment , white coats and medical jargon serve to make most lay people feel ignorant and less important . |
| 16 | In either case , the time , expertise and sustained communication required to make this system work place heavy demands on staff who normally have other priorities . |
| 17 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 18 | Once in the war , the image of Hitler as supreme war leader and military strategist came to dominate all other component parts of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 19 | It is of importance in its own right , since affirmative assessment aims to include all significant experience , and unconscious pain is surely significant . |
| 20 | Whether central government chooses to remove this is , however , dependent on value judgements and a decision to attain horizontal equity ( Grewal , Buchanan and Matthews 1980 ) . |