Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 2 | The notion that there is nothing more to the idea of parliamentary sovereignty than that Parliament is more powerful than the Crown has a strange ring to today 's ears . |
| 3 | We feel it 's important to establish a strong Celtic festival , and Glasgow has a strong attachment to both the Irish and the Scottish Celtic traditions . |
| 4 | And virtually everybody who joins the Options Agency has a positive outcome to more than one in some cases , er in so far as that agency is concerned . |
| 5 | There is the comment which allows a black perspective to momentarily emerge ( ‘ Blacks reckon the opposite ; they reckon the police are picking on them' ) . |
| 6 | He proposed an approach to the principled description of such contexts which bears a close resemblance to more recent descriptions which we shall go on to examine : |
| 7 | In fact doping the buckyball compound with rubidium — a larger atom than potassium — raises the critical temperature to nearly 30K . |
| 8 | The sum of the projects with which Morris was involved represents a major contribution to more than one strand of eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 9 | I have left out the biggest spender of the lot , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , who , every time he gets to his feet in the House , commits the Labour party to further increased spending on the social services . |
| 10 | According to the Unemployment Unit 's calculations including them takes the jobless total to more than three million . |
| 11 | A study published in the British Medical Journal traces the excess caesium to locally produced lamb and milk from cows which have eaten coastal grasses contaminated with nuclear waste . |
| 12 | The system enables the professional stylist to correctly prescribe either protein or moisturising products , or a combination of the two , depending on hair type and condition . |
| 13 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 14 | If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code . |
| 15 | A man … ( most of the examples in mathematics textbooks refer to men : women are invisible — a point not picked up in the Cockcroft Report which devotes a whole chapter to why girls perform less well in mathematics than boys do ) … earns £74.50 for a 48 hour week . |
| 16 | Altitude , too , makes a big difference to how quickly you can burn . |
| 17 | It provides a good contrast to more elaborate music . |
| 18 | But for relatively inexpensive , early drinking , Champagnes , the judicious addition of good quality Pinot Meunier to a cuvée is indispensable and provides an immediate appeal to both nose and palate . |