Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the decision to commit US ground-based forces , estimates as to the numbers which might ultimately be deployed rose quickly and , on Aug. 10 , it was widely leaked that the administration had adopted a " contingency plan " involving the use of 250,000 ground troops should full-scale fighting break out with Iraq . |
| 2 | No timescale was placed on the proposals to limit US military influence and the USA called on the JSP to clarify its position . |
| 3 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 4 | As the same study of the executive and legislative roles in the Vietnam war points out , another of the provisions of the 1949 Mutual Defense Assistance Act — approved with almost no debate — authorized the President to send US armed forces as non-combatant military advisers to any ‘ agency or nation ’ in the world . |
| 5 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 6 | With your monthly premiums invested in the GRE Life Fund , your level of benefits can increase over the years to give you rock-solid protection and a handsome double cash payout . |
| 7 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 8 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 9 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 10 | The Government must now seek ways of strengthening the Union to ensure it continuing vitality , while showing appropriate sensitivity to the nationalistic sentiments stirred up by this election . |
| 11 | Much will depend on the ability of the employer to offer you optimum conditions for job satisfaction . |
| 12 | From the beginning , Lewis was a conscientious tutor who tried to keep the balance right between amiability or conviviality ( not always possible between incompatible types ) and his duty to the pupils to give them sufficient preparation for their examinations . |
| 13 | ‘ And the book said we paint the flowers to make them pretty colours , ’ said Grimma . |
| 14 | Thousands of babies are born with some form of birth defect and most have immediately to go into incubators with doctors and nurses having to work round the clock to give them intensive care . |
| 15 | You can configure the colours you play with and even edit the tiles to give you other pictures to look at . |
| 16 | They 'd fed him and had the decency to give him fresh clothes , the shirt , blue jeans and a broad leather belt with embossed brass buckle to hold them up — camping-shop gear but adequate against the chill of November . |
| 17 | No wonder he had never allowed the spotlight to catch him full face . |
| 18 | So please keep our friendship as strong as ever , though I am losing the power to give it outward expression . |
| 19 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for domestic cats , their human owners rarely have the time to offer them mouse-sized meals , preferring to spoon out big dishfuls of cat food at feeding times . |
| 21 | Somewhat reluctantly he lifted the phone , and asked the operator to get him Assistant Commissioner Seddon at New Scotland Yard . |
| 22 | The Sandinistas may also use the visit to discuss US foreign policy in Central America , and the question of whether improved Soviet-US relations could lead to a lifting of the US economic embargo on Nicaragua . |
| 23 | I was still handed a second to cause me extra hassle . |
| 24 | In Russia itself , parliamentary deputies hinted that they might be open to a spot of bribery when , earlier this year , they discussed a bill to guarantee them various privileges for life — a flat in Moscow , a salary , priority booking on aircraft and trains . |
| 25 | Had dinner with Eric McCormach ( ‘ an enticingly diabolical imagination ’ ) whose Inspecting the Vaults ( Bloomsbury , £4.99 ) is a book to give you sleepless nights . |
| 26 | BAe made apprentices completing their training redundant a couple of years ago but made every effort to find them alternative jobs . |
| 27 | BAe made apprentices completing their training redundant a couple of years ago , but made every effort to find them alternative jobs within the group or with other companies . |
| 28 | We tried every way to find them alternative jobs . |