Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is whether competition policy is seeking to raise the welfare of a particular economy , or whether it should be used as an instrument to promote economic efficiency at a supranational ( or even international ) level . |
| 2 | The BCS does lots of other good things , like sitting on 31 standards committees , working with 15 European computer societies to harmonise professional qualifications for the single market , accrediting computer science courses to make them less theoretical and more oriented towards projects , maintaining a register of expert witnesses , setting up ad hoc specialist groups very quickly on new areas like expert systems , natural language translation and parallel processing , and helping the disabled . |
| 3 | ‘ They want to see economic development in the local area for them ’ . |
| 4 | We were anxious to preserve total secrecy on the new product to protect our legal rights . |
| 5 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 6 | In the field of research and development , a new programme has been launched under the LINK initiative to support collaborative research into the biological treatment of soil and water . |
| 7 | America has attacked the bit of the Bank expressly designed to promote private enterprise in the developing countries . |
| 8 | If there is no preparedness to see extensive nationalization of the worst offending corporations and if there is no political or national will to place public officials on the boards of directors to guarantee that ‘ our ’ interests are given as much consideration as those of the corporation , then clearly the will to control corporations has atrophied in the withering light of pragmatism . |
| 9 | Its RTnet-OSI V 3.0 networking software suite has been enhanced to include expanded support for a larger number of X25 wide area and Ethernet local area connections . |
| 10 | The ability of the added stimulus to disrupt normal perception of the excitatory CS should undergo habituation and thus the ‘ inhibitory ’ power of the pre-exposed stimulus might be less than that of a novel one . |
| 11 | She wanted to arrange sole rights for the overland trade in frankincense and other goods between her country and the rich markets to the north . |
| 12 | The determination with which , against the odds , British Governments attempted to restore economic liberalism in the 1920s partly reflected the influence wielded by the City of London . |
| 13 | If it is difficult to restore economic vitality to the worst-hit redundant areas , it has nonetheless been argued , since the Hunt Report ( Department of Economic Affairs , 1969 ) on ‘ Intermediate Areas ’ , that the growth needs and potential of ‘ grey areas ’ were bypassed by policy . |
| 14 | When Picasso 's art became truly Cubist , in 1909 , he had begun to see solid forms in a new pictorial way , without the aid of linear or mathematical perspective . |
| 15 | Intended to support economic reforms over a 10-month period , the credit would be issued in four tranches . |
| 16 | Before making their individual territory estimates , the salesforce may be briefed on past trends , and on significant factors that the company thinks are likely to affect total sales during the forthcoming period . |
| 17 | To overcome this the ministries themselves were forced to create functional interest groups , such as farmers organizations , development associations and educational groups to channel political demands into the appropriate ministries . |
| 18 | We must expand the breadth of political argument if we are to claim political integrity as a distinct ideal on its own . |
| 19 | Bem ( 1979b , 1983 ) tries to impart social validity to the cognitive approach ; but she still relies on a cognitive concept , that of the schema , to explain how gender relations become an integral part of subjectivity . |
| 20 | THE Social Fund — which was intended to target social security on the poorest — has failed , according to a report published today . |
| 21 | On these occasions , the hon. Member for Oldham , West is always quick to try to compare social security with the Inland Revenue 's processing of people 's tax returns . |
| 22 | EC Commission vice-president , Sir Leon Brittan , has promised the European Parliament that he will investigate claims that the Italian authorities have been using unfair means to acquire public control of the Italian chemical industry . |
| 23 | The severity of the world recession and the weakness of the pound combined to lead the government to borrow foreign currency from the International Monetary Fund in December 1975 . |
| 24 | State Premier Carmen Lawrence , who had resisted such a move since taking office at the beginning of 1990 [ see p. 37250 ] , finally conceded that an inquiry similar to the Fitzgerald inquiry was necessary to restore public confidence in the electoral system . |
| 25 | In 1968 , to restore public confidence in the so-called finance houses , banks and other money-lending agencies , a Committee of Enquiry was appointed under the chairmanship of Lord Crowther who had been Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 26 | There are plenty of examples in English criminal law of crimes which appear to include harmful consequences as a definitional element irrespective of any actual state of mind referable thereto : s. 47 , Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ; s. 51 ( 1 ) , Police Act 1964 ; s . |
| 27 | Consequently , it is intended to acquire inflected versions of the above collocation dictionaries and compare these with their lemmatised equivalents ( using the same text recognition data ) . |
| 28 | Employers in general appeared to see ageing people as a national responsibility rather than as their immediate concern . |
| 29 | The Institute will continue to issue pro-forma records on an annual basis . |
| 30 | Afterwards to wear clerical clothes for the first time , and instantly to be expected to be a confidant or soul 's friend , was to many ordinands the more heartfelt turning-point . |