Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 2 | It was recalled that when the Community Charge was introduced and differential rating for the rural areas of the borough ceased , to compensate the rural areas the Borough Council undertook to pay Parish Clerks ' salaries and to be responsible for the maintenance of playing fields . |
| 3 | 4.2 Learning Outcomes have been amended to reflect the actual competences the student will have on successful completion of a module rather than reflecting knowledge acquired by the student . |
| 4 | It adds : ‘ The viability of this proposal will need to be further explored with the private sector and others as it is too early at this stage to value the commercial opportunities a road might bring for improved coal and mineral extraction , forestry , recreation and other developments to defray construction costs . ’ |
| 5 | I think we need to give the current players a chance this year . |
| 6 | When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’ |
| 7 | Even though his first impressions have not been positive he is prepared to give the new laws a run for their money . |
| 8 | He used his final speech to appeal to voters to give the Liberal Democrats a mandate to ‘ unleash the power of the British people ’ . |
| 9 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 10 | Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit . |
| 11 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 12 | Time to give the old legs a rest on a steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley |
| 13 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |
| 14 | There was an even more temporary grant to ease the political problems the community charge caused — the community charge reduction scheme ( previously ‘ transitional relief ’ ) . |
| 15 | On the shores of the Blighted Isle the Dark Elf host assembled , determined to deny the High Elves a foothold on the shore . |
| 16 | There have been suggestions that they might be given state funding , or that some RCD members in the Chamber of Deputies might resign to allow the other parties a look in . |
| 17 | A brief outline of the events is that the editor of a major medical journal ( a ) republished a previously published paper solely in order to attack it in an editorial ; ( b ) did this without the authors ' permission , while stating the opposite ; ( c ) initially refused to allow the original authors the right to reply in his editorial criticism ; ( d ) published a further editorial attack when ( a year later ) he published an edited version of the authors ' response ; ( d ) refused to publish any other correspondence about the editorial attacks ; and ( f ) gave another editor a dishonest account of events to dissuade him from publishing our account of the affair . |
| 18 | More troublesome was the imperial chamberlain , Markward of Anweiler , who wanted to make the southern lands the centre of resistance for the imperialists . |
| 19 | The coordinator or a member of the radiology referral review committee also visited all the larger general practices to explain the purpose of the study , to show the participating practitioners the guideline booklet , and to obtain their approval . |