Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 2 | But the court did not accept the legal conclusion which the defence sought to draw from that fact , since Megaw L.J . |
| 3 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 4 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 5 | The university wants to expand from 6,800 students to 15,000 by 2030 and it is clear some private fee-paying would be instrumental in that expansion . |
| 6 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 7 | When the West wants to move into these markets adequate postal and telecommunications systems will be needed . |
| 8 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 9 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 10 | In winter , skin has to contend with central heating and cold temperatures ; conditions which can cause even the oiliest of skin types to become dehydrated . |
| 11 | Dudek was surprised at the request ; it was not a course designed to deal with such matters . |
| 12 | She shot him a look designed to kill at fifty feet , but he only raised one eyebrow in mute enquiry . |
| 13 | Football : Hard times at Hartlepool : Jonathan Foster on a club struggling to escape from pervasive depression |
| 14 | The earlier part of the chapter sought to describe in some detail the major concerns articulated by Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA , the most basic of which , it was suggested , revolved around the perceived declining centrality of organised religion in British social life . |
| 15 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 16 | It may well be that a particular piece of research needs to focus on selected people for information , and the information gained from them will be fitted together into a coherent and consistent pattern with virtually no percentages and significance tests at all . |
| 17 | An actress has to think about these things . ’ |
| 18 | The market is being distorted : if General Electric wants to come into this country , it gives a price concession which damages one of this country 's crucial companies . |
| 19 | The government also derived revenue from its privatization programme designed to return to private ownership many of the state companies acquired during the 20-year rule of Marcos . |
| 20 | Violinist Nigel Kennedy and Scottish rock group Wet Wet Wet completed a balanced programme designed to appeal to different types of audiences . |
| 21 | Indeed , by failing to acknowledge what applied research has to say on this matter , the Griffiths report proceeds from a false premise ( that care by the community — in its present form — is desirable and will continue ) to a false conclusion ( that publicly provided services can be increasingly restricted to an enabling and facilitating role ) . |
| 22 | The standing of Keynesianism seemed to ebb by visible degrees with the publication of each successive article which took as its starting-point the assumption of full employment . |
| 23 | In either case principally Chinese armies would have been involved and , in the short run at least , Vietnam 's political future seemed to lie in Chinese hands . |
| 24 | Since Allison took over from Dennis Rofe , who walked out of the club refusing to work with Big Mal , Rovers have lost only once in the league and achieved three victories and a draw . |
| 25 | He fell , and the Manchu 's final stroke seemed to descend with unstoppable fury . |
| 26 | The Irish Republic is a Catholic country and even those Protestants who do not expect to be actively persecuted doubt that they will have full civil and religious liberty when the major religious institution refuses to engage in fair competition by , for example , permitting the parents free choice of their child 's religion in the case of mixed marriage . |
| 27 | Brilliant , so , you , this is , this year , is this scholarship going to continue in future years or is it just a one off ? |
| 28 | One is that women 's fear of rape by a stranger is inborn ; another is that crime reporting tends to focus on violent crime , particularly against women . ’ |
| 29 | If local scepticism tends to collapse into global scepticism , this may be an advantage , since global sceptical arguments are generally more convincing and effective than their local counterparts . |
| 30 | As with anorexia , the condition tends to recur after traditional forms of hospital treatment in medical or psychiatric units . |