Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It enabled John Major to revive his version of the constitutional agenda . |
| 2 | So here the relationship between the lexical concepts has to be marked in some way to make up for the inadequacy of the words to indicate what part of the general context of knowledge is to be engaged . |
| 3 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council it was decided to accept your offer of the weekly Committee Information Digest . |
| 4 | From this viewpoint , we have to modify our analysis of the regulatory system in certain ways . |
| 5 | We will encourage farmers , retailers and manufacturers to work together to increase our share of the European food market . |
| 6 | When Darwin appropriated this evolutionary perspective , and the morally convenient notion of the survival of the fittest , all nature seemed to chorus her approval of the unchallengeable truth of these basic facts of human and animal existence . |
| 7 | Ensuring to all an equal ability to realize their conception of the good is more likely to require acting in a non-neutral way , acting to improve the ability of some at the expense of others . |
| 8 | If any of the present owners wish to sell their share of the converted building , the remaining directors must approve the new purchaser , but otherwise the dwellings can be sold in the normal way . |
| 9 | In contrast , if a wife has had her sixtieth birthday but her husband has not yet reached 65 ( or has decided to defer his retirement ) , she must wait until her husband retires to receive her share of the married couple 's pension . |
| 10 | But of course it is the individual who attracts the photographer in the first place ( and in this instance we know the reverse to be true ) , and Yass is obviously keen to sharpen our awareness of the personal face-to-face aspect of these relationships . |
| 11 | From such a generalized synthesis of the morphology of the small towns , it is possible to begin to define several recurring features which can help to evaluate our understanding of the overall level of complexity at individual sites , although these will clearly need to be refined as more new evidence emerges from the ground . |
| 12 | In the autumn of 1985 a fierce battle emerged between United Kingdom holiday firms in an effort to enhance their share of the 1986 summer holiday market . |
| 13 | When roles become more segregated , as they do after the birth of a baby , even when both parents continue to go out to work , people are less able to avoid their envy of the opposite sex and of the baby who receives so much care and attention . |
| 14 | But even if there had been , the groups would still have been unified by their joint involvement in a single ambitious enterprise , a single overriding endeavour — to rid their land of the Roman occupation and reinstate the old Judaic monarchy together with its rightful priesthood . |
| 15 | Labour 's John Aberdeen talked to colleagues at the Scottish Labour Party Conference ; the Conservative candidate , Hampshire barrister Dr Paul McCormick , made an immediate and thorough study of the circumstances surrounding the removal of the children , and Frances McKie for the Scottish National Party was quick to express her horror of the Social Work Department 's actions . |
| 16 | In fact , Lok has made comparisons before this , when , as on this occasion , he was struggling to express his understanding of the new people : " " " He changes shape like a bear in a cave " " " and " " " He is like a cat and he is not like a cat . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Labour may have thrown in the towel , but the SNP will continue to lead the fight to defeat the poll tax and to rid our nation of the nuclear menace . ’ |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman really cares about unemployed people , will he join me today in calling on his Front-Bench colleagues to abandon their policy of a national statutory minimum wage , to abandon their jobs tax and to abandon their embrace of the European Community social action programme so that we can avoid the disastrous consequences for employment that would follow from such policies ? |
| 19 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 20 | The Bush administration reiterated its opposition to abortion when , on April 6 , Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr filed a brief which appealed to the Supreme Court to use its consideration of the Pennsylvanian law as an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade . |
| 21 | It is said that Paul Jones , the American privateer , fired a salvo at Rolston Hall to mark his hatred of the then owner , William Brough , Marshall of High Court of Admiralty , who was entitled to hang Paul Jones as a pirate if he was captured . |
| 22 | This brief survey not only provides some historical depth to an understanding of contemporary British government — its structure , responsibilities , and political dominance — it also serves to reinforce our grasp of the political culture and to provide in part an explanation for some of the problems now associated with government . |
| 23 | List two quantities that you would like to know , or to know better , plus two types of observation you would like to make , or to make better , in order to extend our knowledge of the Cytherean interior and of the level of geological activity past and present . |
| 24 | In order to extend our knowledge of the green algal/plant lineage , we recently started to analyze another chlorophyte mtDNA , namely that of the colourless alga Prototheca wickerhamii . |
| 25 | The research aims to extend our understanding of the differing effects of restructuring and privatisation on the dynamics of labour relations within industrial enterprises . |
| 26 | Erm you already had , er , the opportunity to read my letter of the eighteenth of April er , circulated with the report and accounts , which fully explains the proposals being put forward and which are for firstly increasing the authorized share capital of the company creating two new classes of preference share er , renewing the board 's authority to allot shares renewing the board 's power to modify preemption rights authorizing the company to purchase its own er , ordinary shares reducing the company 's share capital by repaying the existing preference shares er , making certain amendments to the company 's employee share schemes increasing the aggregate sum available for directors ' fees and authorizing the company to issue summary financial statements . |
| 27 | The Iranians had to keep their part of the various bargains , and both sides had to keep to punishingly complicated timetables ; after everything possible had been organized , the rest had to be put in God 's hands . |
| 28 | When do you expect the Government to start their review of the nuclear industry ? |
| 29 | The DPP members demanded that the National Assembly should not be used to amend the Constitution and claimed that the Kuomintang planned to protect its control of the political system by including undemocratic revisions , including the retention of emergency presidential powers . |
| 30 | The Guardian sought to invoke some sort of privilege , which they could not seriously have believed existed , to protect their publication of the Labour Party 's confidential information . |