Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power . |
| 2 | Little Rock had forced the Eisenhower administration to act and in the same year , 1957 , the President had put his support behind the first Civil Rights Act passed for over 80 years . |
| 3 | Michael Stein opened his mouth to reply but at the last minute , ever the professional , bit back a pithy retort . |
| 4 | I entirely agree with this decision and with the passage cited but it is important to note that when Nolan J. spoke of the alternatives which ‘ must both be made available to the subject ’ he was , as I think , clearly referring to the alternative on the one hand of allowing the breath specimen to stand and on the other hand of exercising the right to have it replaced by a specimen of blood or urine in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 5 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 6 | He would educate himself — fast ; and there was no better place to start than with the sorry tale of Freddie Laker . |
| 7 | If people 's payments for the good are related to their individual demand curves everyone has an incentive to lie because of the free-rider problem . |
| 8 | But their two aims conflicted because on the one hand they 're trying to protect production and to allow erm er capit private enterprise and capitalism to develop but on the other hand they 're erm trying to redistribute all the land er because the May the fourth directive was n't going far enough , they , they needed to be more severe upon landlords |
| 9 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 10 | There is some evidence to suggest that among the important determinants should be numbered the complexity of the stimuli ( Ellis and Muller 1964 ) , whether or not the stimuli look like recognizable objects ( Ellis , Muller , and Tosti 1966 ) , and the extent to which the labels match critical features of the stimuli ( Segal 1964 ) . |
| 11 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 12 | This institute believes that some form of National Statistics Council has a role to play but with the following provisos : 1 . |
| 13 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 14 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 15 | Answer guide : Because they will change their form in the next year , in the former case to cash and in the latter normally to services . |
| 16 | The supervisor can aid and abet the earner to drive while over the prescribed limit etc . |
| 17 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 18 | At the strategic level of integrating the territories into the Israeli economy , the competitive edge of Israel 's highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture destroyed the Palestinian sector almost in its entirety — although there was not an enormous amount to destroy because of the Jordanian legacy of economic neglect . |
| 19 | It is for the housing authority to decide whether they have reason to believe the matters which will give rise to the duty to inquire or to the temporary housing duty . |
| 20 | Although the number of cars registered in Wales fell slightly during 1992 , there was little reason to think that in the long term we will not be faced by an unsustainable surge in the number of private vehicles using Welsh roads . |
| 21 | Someone may now say : nevertheless , though checkerboard solutions may be desirable for that reason on some occasions , we do better to reject their use out of hand in advance , because we have reason to think that in the long run more discrete injustice will be created than avoided through these solutions . |
| 22 | This discovery does make the point that trade had been established and there is no reason to think that in the closing years of his reign , when Cunobelinus was showing strong pro-Roman tendencies these commercial links with the Roman world would not have been fostered . |
| 23 | According to an evaluation report this may reflect an unwillingness to admit that in the past schools have been sex biased ( Payne , Cuff and Hustler , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | The best we can do is to establish a habit of " challenge " since this allows the old idea to continue but at the same time attaches some doubt and dissatisfaction to it . |
| 25 | In other cases there is land to spare and at the same time extreme population pressure plus unequal landholdings , such as in Brazil , where there is a constant stream of immigrants to the marginal lands of the North-East and to Amazonia . |
| 26 | I also noticed a tendency to assume that by the twentieth century women had overcome most of the problems of inequality . |
| 27 | The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve . |
| 28 | It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote . |
| 29 | They each have a significant contribution to make and in the main are dependent upon each other for an effective outcome . |
| 30 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |