Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball . |
| 2 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 3 | Like the labour movement in its formative period — like Chartism , or the early trade unions , or the utopian communities — the social movements of the 1960s were movements of liberation seeking an adequate doctrine and mode of political action to combat the most oppressive features of the societies in which they developed ; thus they directed their activities variously against colonial rule , domination by external economic powers , the rule of feudal-military elites , ethnic subordination , the subjection of women , or the domination of society by a rigid , centralized and bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 4 | 9.5 Effect of waiver Each of the Tenant 's covenants shall remain in full force both at law and in equity notwithstanding that the Landlord shall have waived or released temporarily any such covenant or waived or released temporarily or permanently revocably or irrevocably a similar covenant or similar covenants affecting any other part of the Centre or the Adjoining Property This provision is an attempt to circumvent the rather harsh law of waiver , by which a landlord will lose its right to forfeit the lease where a non-continuing breach has occurred if the landlord does some act to suggest that the landlord is nevertheless satisfied to continue the tenancy , eg by accepting rent from the tenant . |
| 5 | Now BT is to invest £6.5million in a bid to foil the highly organised gangs , who distribute manuals and videos explaining how to break into the cashboxes . |
| 6 | Inevitably , this attempt to define the most powerful school of art since the war is going to lead to fierce arguments . |
| 7 | This led the parser to explore the more likely solutions first . |
| 8 | The inadequacy of the domain-specific dictionaries on these occasions reflects an attempt to constrain the highly unpredictable phenomenon of language by using too narrow a framework . |
| 9 | The Department of Interior has only just begun a two year study to streamline the fiendishly complex sets of planning rules that govern new mining projects . |
| 10 | Once installed in government , however , the Labour Party embarked upon an energetic legislative programme including the establishment of the Department of Economic Affairs ( DEA ) under George Brown with the remit of formulating a national plan , and the Ministry of Technology under Cousins , a leading light of the leftward movement in the trade unions since the '50s ; the repeal of the 1957 Rent Act attacked by Labour as a ‘ landlord 's charter ’ and associated with ‘ Rachmanism ’ ; the development of comprehensive education ; the development of regional policy in an attempt to alleviate the relatively high unemployment and slow growth of the depressed areas of the UK dependent on declining industries ; the 1965 Trade Disputes Act , which gave union leaders full legal protection from actions over breach of employment contract ; and the Redundancy Payments Act . |
| 11 | The programme began in 1973 as an attempt to incorporate the most recent findings about job design into the work organisation , and with the intention of improving the quality of work life . |
| 12 | When their main army arrived on 1 March Henry and Richard made no attempt to chase the widely scattered bands of plundering routiers . |
| 13 | Mr Weizman , 68 , an ex-general who helped forge peace with Egypt and favours talks with the PLO , beat the former parliament speaker Dov Shilansky 66-53 in a parliamentary vote to fill the largely ceremonial post for the next five years . |
| 14 | IT FELL to RAF St Mawgan and to Coastal Command to fly the last-ever operational sortie by the Lancaster . |
| 15 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 16 | Warwickshire , for example , invited comments from sole practitioners , partnerships , and other individual solicitors , and made no attempt to reconcile the often conflicting views which emerged . |
| 17 | Realistic resources for its implementation ; training and research to spread the more hopeful messages about good practice ; and a social and political climate that values the ideals of partnership , participation and respect for persons — child and adult — would add immeasurably to its impact . |
| 18 | That morning seemed endless as we waited for an ambulance to transport the most urgent cases to the hospital . |
| 19 | You can always rely on the Modern Review to ask the really Big Questions , such as Who Killed British Fiction ? |
| 20 | This reading shows Anne Campbell 's attempt to explain the relatively high involvement of females in shoplifting , sometimes seen as the ‘ typical ’ female crime . |
| 21 | AN ATTEMPT to defuse the increasingly hostile dispute with China over democracy in Hong Kong was made last night by the Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 22 | President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro signed three decrees and a presidential agreement on property rights on Sept. 9 in an attempt to defuse the most contentious issue facing her government — the estimated 4,600 claims for redress from owners of property and land expropriated under the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) regime between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 23 | He reckons that the politics of mutual extermination could indeed have run their course , and the opportunity to tackle the most pressing issues of the 1990s — poverty and the destruction of the environment — is finally within reach . |
| 24 | These simple changes to her father 's response enable this mildly handicapped child to acquire the socially necessary ability to wait in a definite and positive manner . |
| 25 | Such control was obviously necessary if he were to develop within himself the capacity to enjoy the vastly increased range of pleasures that could be derived from his expanding emotions . |
| 26 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co last week said they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 27 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 28 | For October the new company is producing and publishing the catalogue for ‘ Canaletto and England ’ organised by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to inaugurate the newly refurbished Gas Hall in the city centre as an exhibition space . |
| 29 | As far as the knowledge and business enterprise of the producers reach , they in each case choose those factors of production which are best for their purpose , the sum of the supply prices of those factors which are used is , as a rule , less than the sum of the supply prices of any other set of factors which could be substituted for them ; and whenever it appears to the producers that this is not the case , they will , as a rule , set to work to substitute the less expensive method . |
| 30 | He is applying for judicial review of a decision by the council 's professional conduct committee to prefer the less serious charge of breach of proper professional standards , which leads to an admonition . |