Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although an early election will sometimes be necessary , we will introduce as a general rule a fixed parliamentary term . |
| 2 | Poland had by now withdrawn most of its trade through the city to its own port at Gdynia , and the Reich could hardly be expected to maintain or guarantee for an indefinite period the subsidy the city required.20 Lipski and Göring agreed that Germany and Poland should draw together in an understanding that they would jointly stabilise the city if the League should either collapse or decide to withdraw from Danzig . |
| 3 | The fascination Or sociology lies in the fact that its perspective makes us see in a new light the very world in which we have lived all our lives … . |
| 4 | We have already seen that someone with a voidable title can nevertheless transfer to an innocent purchaser a perfect title , provided he does so before his title is avoided . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , encyclopaedias are very expensive to compile and publish so one can not hope for a new edition every year and the information in them is thus often very dated . |
| 6 | The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse . |
| 7 | The attempt would be made to ‘ expose in a lucid manner the relation existing between recent enquiries , and our actual store of knowledge ’ , and not ‘ merely isolated and unconnected abstracts of the several individual investigations ’ . |
| 8 | Services should have as a primary goal the alleviation of distress , by providing a programme of treatment , care and support based on the unique needs of an individual . |
| 9 | The fundamental issue is this that if the Labour Party is to remain a party of labour it must have as an integral part the trade union movement , it 's as simple as that , colleagues ! |
| 10 | Let me take as a telling example the facts regarding human sexual dimorphism . |
| 11 | The evidence does indicate in a high-employment economy the proportion of workers to non-workers can be kept up by keeping more people in full- or part-time work past the current retirement age . |
| 12 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 13 | A landlord , who is not fully taxable , may grant to a fully-taxable tenant a tenant 's repairing lease with a clause giving the landlord the right to any indemnity from the tenant for necessary repairs . |
| 14 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 15 | Uncle said he will never forget as a little boy the sight of all these geese coming over the hill beyond our top pasture . |
| 16 | Why do you panic like a silly girl every time something scares you ? |
| 17 | If the calculated starting rate does coincide with a resonant rate the designer can either elect to use a lower frequency clock or try to reduce the resonance with additional damping . |
| 18 | The licence-holder of premises to which the section applies must exhibit in a conspicuous place a notice stating that the section applies and the effect of its application ( subs . |
| 19 | [ T ] here is no reason why the law should not protect on a similar basis the enjoyment of other rights . |
| 20 | We can propose as an initial distinction the following : on the one hand the variable relations between ‘ cultural producers ’ ( a deliberately neutral if abstract term ) and recognizable social institutions ; on the other hand , the variable relations in which ‘ cultural producers ’ have been organized or have organized themselves , their formations . |
| 21 | Soviet Military Doctrine ( which we discuss more fully in Chapters 4 and 5 ) would reject as a lunatic heresy the idea that there could be one set of assumptions governing defence production , a second governing the training and control of troops , a third for military strategy , and a fourth for the politico-military policy of the state . |
| 22 | an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the dullest expression ; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind ; it has more of the ‘ poet 's eye in a fine frenzy rolling ’ than I ever witnessed . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) Where there is served on the person who may consent to a proposed transaction a written application by the tenant for consent to the transaction , he owes a duty to the tenant within a reasonable time — ( a ) to give consent , except in a case where it is reasonable not to give consent , ( b ) to serve on the tenant written notice of his decision whether or not to give consent specifying in addition — ( i ) if the consent is given subject to conditions , the conditions , ( ii ) if the consent is withheld , the reasons for withholding it . |
| 24 | A good letter writer will place in a logical sequence the matter about which he or she intends to write . |
| 25 | To stick to the motor car analogy , the design of cars has improved more rapidly because a designer can incorporate in a single design a synchromesh gearbox that originated in one model with fuel injection that originated in another . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll be putting together an oversight group with the top EDS and KF people , which will determine on a regular basis the business needs of the company . |
| 27 | The Head of Department will determine on an individual basis the manner in which the above compensation will be made . |
| 28 | The House can , however , deny to an unpopular government the wherewithal to govern and render the retention of office and further denial of a dissolution an empty and purposeless gesture . |