Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
2 | What we would be dealing with are more of the implications , or this is how , for whatever reasons , it has come to pass that people write journalistic stories in this kind of way — might there not be other , better , more adequate ways of writing journalistic stories ? |
3 | time for training was difficult to find because training made additional demands on already busy people |
4 | The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services . |
5 | It behoves all who wish journalists and broadcasters to enjoy " rights " to acknowledge that others have valid claims to legal protection as well — to lead a private life , to undergo a trial free from sensational prejudice , and to have false accusations corrected with the same prominence as they are made . |
6 | The lesson of the Crimean disaster , underlined by Prussia 's triumphs , impelled officials in the Ministry of War to urge that Russia develop strategic railways and reduce her dependence on imported arms . |
7 | At one point in the Report , the Wolfenden Committee argued that it was illogical to presume that boys needed greater protection from ‘ would-be seducers ’ than do girls . |
8 | It is important to remember that patients need some information about the different members of the health care team so that they can relate satisfactorily to them . |
9 | In no way had she ever been prepared for the life she was now expected to lead and Charles had some difficulty in understanding her feelings . |
10 | Because we had no direct measures of volatility in output or demand , we were not able to explore whether establishments experiencing important fluctuations in output or demand were also more important users of temporary labour . |
11 | At first , Stockwood seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions about his admiration for Ceauşescu : his praise , he said , referred to Ceauşescu before he went off the rails . |
12 | The Committee on the Safety of Medicines wants to see if warnings issued this year are adequate , the Department of Health said last night . |
13 | One way of overcoming the apparent falsification was to suggest that phlogiston has negative weight . |
14 | To suggest that tribunals have greater expert knowledge of the subject matter of disputes before them , than judges , is rather insulting to the judges . |
15 | Wober ( 1989a ) presents evidence to suggest that electors find mid-term PPBs , especially opposition PPBs , much more useful than PEBs during the campaign . |
16 | I would like to suggest that branches hold open meetings at regular intervals , one of which would be the AGM . |
17 | Other salts have larger distances between selenium atoms , leading the researchers to suggest that pressure reduces this distance until the appropriate structure for superconductivity is reached . |
18 | There is just about enough annalistic evidence to suggest that Charles operated this system at least in the second half of his reign . |
19 | But it is difficult to imagine that shaikhs had more power in the pre-Sanusi period than in the 1970s : if anything , accretions of status increased their authority during the Italian government and the kingdom ( so that a shaikh was an obvious candidate for the office of al-mukhtar al-mahalli ) . |
20 | It is now uncontroversial to assert that bureaucracy performs political roles in the context of the contemporary state ( though there is still much controversy as to precisely which roles are performed and what , if any , their structural consequences are ) . |
21 | I consider it legitimate to require that officers have such information when dealing with individuals on the pavement or in cars . |
22 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
23 | Guppy , 28 , a jet-setting socialite , and Marsh , also 28 , his Oxford University contemporary , had denied three charges — conspiracy to defraud , conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to commit false accounting . |
24 | Two ministers were forced to resign but Pindling denied personal involvement in corruption , despite the disparity between his lavish personal life-style and his modest Prime Ministerial salary . |
25 | Its always difficult to know how to help when friends suffer such experiences . |
26 | It was reported that BB was the basis of forty-seven per cent of French conversation — how this was computed is not easy to see but people said such things . |
27 | If what I said above is correct , failure of the ‘ mode of access ’ argument forces the materialist to deny that BS lacks any knowledge and to adopt a behaviourist theory . |
28 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |
29 | 3 not knowing what to do when patients have severe pain . |
30 | I guess England will have to hope that Norway gets another win — at least i do ; - ) |