Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 2 | Simon 's decision to dispense with normal syntax implies that stylistically the intention is to render the real more satisfactorily than the conventional novel would allow . |
| 3 | They also modify the accountant 's certificate to refer to controlled trust money . |
| 4 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 5 | The relationship between Sophia and the monarch was never free from tension , and the succession also created difficulties between Sophia and her eldest son George , a particularly serious crisis occurring in 1706 , over Sophia 's attempt to intervene in English politics . |
| 6 | And now to the government 's plan to sell off British Rail . |
| 7 | Any change in the vulnerable elderly person 's capacity to cope with daily living should be considered in relation to his/her place in the family network , and the capacity of that network to respond to the change . |
| 8 | There was also unease at the PLO 's propensity to act against local opinion , witnessed in its treatment of the home-grown NGC in the late 1970s , its abuse of Joint Committee funds for politically corrupt purposes , and in Arafat 's flirtation with Husayn in the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | The left 's failure to woo with social legislation a class many of whose members it also alienated by its anticlericalism handed them on a plate to its right-wing opponents . |
| 10 | THE head of MI5 , Mr Patrick Walker , has allowed a former senior officer to publish a book that includes strong criticism of the Government 's refusal to agree to independent oversight of the Security Service . |
| 11 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 12 | Consider , though , a case in which a given enterprise is unwilling to invest because of low expected profitability , yet this low prospective profitability can be traced neither to faulty managerial calculations , nor to foreign competition of a kind justifying protection , nor to the failure of an identified ‘ need ’ for the enterprise 's product to register as monetary demand , nor to internal competition from other enterprises operating a more intensive exploitation of labour . |
| 13 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |
| 14 | But if it follows the government 's call to expand into domiciliary care it will not have to register this as part of its service . |
| 15 | The priory was plundered of its stones for Southover Grange , built for William Newton in 1572 , and Southover Manor was constructed for the Earl of Dorset 's steward to live in suitable style . |
| 16 | Oversold health-care shares are now rebounding , as Mr Clinton 's ability to push through sweeping reform begins to look limited . |
| 17 | His basic concerns involve the effects computer-use might have in fostering children 's ability to engage in disembedded thinking ; and the possibility that girls might not gain so much benefit from computer-use in school as boys . |
| 18 | The beef herd proved the breed 's ability to thrive on modest feeding and to give high killing-out percentages in all age groups , and gradually the beef traits increased in importance until it became a single-purpose beef breed . |
| 19 | When the interview is simulated in the classroom using pre-prepared videos , cassette recordings or role playing , an exchange of trainees ' reactions , fears and responses to the situation presented can improve an adviser 's ability to cope with real interviewing . |
| 20 | The first controlled experiment into women 's ability to act as senior business executive shows that the best of British women are , without doubt , world class . |
| 21 | Finally , appraisal procedures must be established which monitor and enhance the individual 's ability to work to maximum effectiveness . |
| 22 | The double title consisted of the church 's mission to teach under infallible guidance and her ‘ supernatural motherhood ’ by which the church ‘ educates souls in the divine life of grace ’ ( 1929 : 7 ) . |
| 23 | In March 1991 it won an important case when the strongly integrationist European Court of Justice condoned Brussels ' ability to rule on public service monopolies without the approval of EC member states , despite the fact that the Court 's principal legal adviser , the Advocate General , called for the Commission 's powers to be restricted under Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome . |