Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if you are n't another Bowie or Elton John , you still need to try and develop an original style . |
| 2 | Where liability is admitted , or it is acknowledged that liability is likely to be established , then it may be sensible to try and agree an interim payment because it will probably be possible to secure a lower sum in interim damages than would be awarded by the Court if matters were so to proceed . |
| 3 | Hereford City Council is working with Mr Boucher to try and find an alternative site for the sanctuary . |
| 4 | The Sergeant walked past inspecting the kit , finding fault everywhere ; my mistake had been to try and conceal an unwashed pair of pants in my bag . |
| 5 | In spite of running a home in the country , and being the mother of four splendid children , including twins , and running her Kanga dress business not only in Beauchamp Place , but worldwide , Dale Tryon finds time to work and take an active interest in this good cause , for which Lord Mottistone is the Chairman . |
| 6 | He made a series of false casts , wondering at the apparent inability of the Hampshire County Council to conceive and implement an efficient system of signposts . |
| 7 | Last week , Mr Perez de Cuellar called for a ‘ structured ’ Afghan delegation representing all the Afghan factions to meet and organise an intra-Afghan dialogue . |
| 8 | While financial resources and technical equipment are of great importance in the effort to establish and operate an adequate information and communication capability , it is skilled personnel who constitute the most critical factor . |
| 9 | While financial resources and technical equipment are of great importance in the effort to establish and operate an adequate information and communication capability , it is skilled personnel who constitute the most critical factor . |
| 10 | Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort . |
| 11 | Both resorted to drink and felt an overwhelming need for Norman . |
| 12 | A human nose is reported to be able to detect and identify an organic sulphur compound at a concentration of one molecule per billion molecules of air , far lower than any present day instrumental technique . |
| 13 | Voluntariness will be understood , however , not as the decisive act by which an individual surrenders private autonomy , but rather as a deliberate entry into market relations under which certain obligations will arise in order to sustain and regulate an advanced division of labour . |
| 14 | I chose the sketches I wanted to perform and wrote an over-long introduction based on why I felt drawn to Joyce . |
| 15 | The customer relies on the dealer to provide a suitable and effective system and , consequently , there is a duty on the dealer to select and recommend an adequate system ( see Stewart v Reavell 's Garage [ 1952 ] , discussed in Chapter 14 ) . |
| 16 | The third type of headhunter , more appropriate to the increasing professionalism of the business , is epitomised by David Kay and Dr Anna Mann , who entered executive search with strong commercial , professional and academic qualifications , and set about forming businesses which would continue to grow and capture an important stake in the British — if not the greater world — market . |
| 17 | In recent times , however , most people have come to experience and to expect an abrupt transition from full-time work to full-time retirement at an age when many of them feel reasonably fit . |
| 18 | This allows suppliers to specialise and to develop an intimate knowledge of customer needs and wants . |
| 19 | It 's neatly made , structurally sound , very pleasant to play and combines an American-style appearance with a competitive price tag . |
| 20 | This however is not due to a desire to rock'n'roll but represents an instinctive response to signals interpreted by their mind configuration as a call to food , sex or perhaps just good arachnid company . |
| 21 | 5.3 During any notice period to terminate the Publisher shall be entitled to negotiate and appoint an alternative distributor of its Publications within the Territory |
| 22 | It takes very little time to do and makes an enormous difference to the finished garment . |
| 23 | Per curiam. ( i ) It would be wrong for police officers to adopt or use an undercover pose or disguise to enable themselves to ask questions about an offence uninhibited by the requirements of Code C and with the effect of circumventing it ; were they to do so it would be open to the judge to exclude the questions and answers under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ( post , p. 237E–F ) . |
| 24 | It would be wrong for police officers to adopt or use an undercover pose or disguise to enable themselves to ask questions about an offence uninhibited by the requirements of the Code and with the effect of circumventing it . |
| 25 | By contrast , within EC policy the element of political discretion is much less , since the decision to permit or to forbid an investigated merger is a matter for the administration . |
| 26 | An application to vary or discharge an existing order must be made on form CHA 55 . |
| 27 | Might any fear that disabled employment opportunities would collapse if the prop of the statutory quota were to be removed be assuaged by placing a statutory obligation upon employers to adopt and to implement an affirmative action plan ? |
| 28 | SIR — As preparations are made for the 12th London Marathon ( arguably the largest and best race in the world ) , Londoners need to recognise and rectify an important problem . |
| 29 | The Smithsonian 's first art museum , the Freer Gallery , opened in 1923 , the gift of Detroit railroad car manufacturer Charles Lang Freer who in 1906 left to the nation his collection of Asian and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art , along with funds to build and endow an Italian palazzo on the National Mall . |
| 30 | It was a relief not to have to soothe and propitiate an experienced detective who could hardly be expected to welcome a commander from the new C1 squad intruding on his patch . |