Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 2 | We are not opening in Paris solely to take advantage of the end of trading restrictions within the EC in 1993 , but because the opportunity arose to obtain a suitable area of the Hotel Bristol with our own street window and entrance . |
| 3 | Although the March general election failed to produce an outright winner , it ended the political chaos which had been associated with the final months of Blaize 's administration . |
| 4 | Here pockets of ancient semi-natural woodland , unafraid wildlife and a sense of history and heritage combine to offer a peaceful retreat from the coast . |
| 5 | The 1992 budget planned to limit the public-sector deficit to 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , and to save L60,000 million ( about US$48,250,000 ) through a combination of spending cuts , fiscal measures and privatization . |
| 6 | The executive responsible is a member of the Board assigned to ensure the successful progress and completion of the project . |
| 7 | This may again be necessary for work with learning resources , but librarians and experienced teachers will in any case want to stress the absolute necessity of previous detailed checking to see that the resources likely to be helpful and required are actually available . |
| 8 | Young male and female geladas begin to differentiate their preferences in this way well before the male separates to join an all-male group . |
| 9 | Because the Milk Marketing Board agrees to pay a fixed price regularly every month , most farmers keep a herd of dairy cows . |
| 10 | But British Rail failed to obtain an interim injunction against the NUR , the court holding that the union was likely in the highest degree to be able to show that their , ballot was valid . |
| 11 | Three quarters of the money goes to maintain the national organisation and to provide central services for Bureaux . |
| 12 | Considerations of finance are important in relation to that , because I do not believe that British Rail has to build an underground station in order to achieve its purpose . |
| 13 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 14 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 15 | In university libraries the organization of staff for book provision has to resolve a major difficulty — the respective roles of university departments vis-à-vis the library staff . |
| 16 | But I 'm not blaming the journalists , they 're under a lot of pressure ; the CBS or the BBC correspondent has to do the one report for the day . |
| 17 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 18 | In order to breathe during this operation , the young waxbill has to adopt a particular posture ; young whydahs and indigo birds adopt this too . |
| 19 | Brown , a black parent , was supported by the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) in a case designed to test the widespread practice of having separate schools for blacks and whites . |
| 20 | Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one . |
| 21 | This is useful if the retailer wants to introduce a new product , or line of products . |
| 22 | ( b ) Taking instructions As noted above , the drafter needs to have a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business , in order to ensure that the terms meet the needs of the client 's business , taking account of its products , customers and problems . |
| 23 | The user has to judge the exact moment to stop . |
| 24 | Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial . |
| 25 | On the other hand there are those who would argue that even if the academic course has to have a vocational purpose — and most students themselves would agree with this — the variety of vocational destinations requires a degree of generality to achieve commonality of interests and this can not provide for the specific needs of future language teachers . |
| 26 | A taxpayer making a lease or buy decision needs to determine the after-tax cash flow of each option and evaluate the cash flow using the after-tax discount rate . |
| 27 | When selecting other census counts to profile a local market , it is important to choose the most useful of the 10,000 or so available counts . |
| 28 | IBM , Borland International , Gupta Technologies Inc , Novell Inc and WordPerfect Corp rallied to support a new database application programming interface , the Integrated Database API ( IDAPI ) . |
| 29 | Any major player in this field has to take the imminent MPEG standard very seriously . |
| 30 | Locke of course wants to argue a strong case to the contrary , he wants to argue that membership of a civil society is voluntary . |