Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Subsidiarity was designed to operate under forms of government exercising undivided power , and the pretensions and ambitions to exercise this power are already clear for all to see in the plans for European integration .
2 Noel Wilson 's chance on Flap Jack looked dim with two to jump in the Bramham Moor 's Restricted , with G Derek still going strongly a dozen lengths ahead .
3 We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine .
4 In a child-centred class of 30 children it is easy for some to slip through the net and learn nothing .
5 As a result of both of these considerations , it is most unusual for MAS to act for a buyer on a contingent fee basis ( other than an MBO or MBI team , and then only on a selected basis with a suitable risk reward ratio . )
6 Good after that to return to the big glass .
7 From the outset their lack of an independent popular base forced Azaña and the Left-Republicans to lean for both electoral and parliamentary support upon the Socialist Party , which through the UGT was able during 1930–1 to mobilize on the Republic 's behalf a large proportion of the Spanish working class .
8 UNESCO however is unlikely to able to pay for the full cost of the restoration programme and intends to enlist aid from other international agencies .
9 Thus , by the end of the first week of August , between 8,000 and 9,000 soldiers had been transferred from North Africa to Seville , and the way was open for more to follow throughout the summer .
10 The next prerequisite with a switched-on organization is perhaps the most difficult of all to achieve in a British environment , and this is openness of communication .
11 Julius needs to maintain a certain lifestyle , and you might find it difficult at first to cope with the demands he 'll make on you . ’
12 Further , it is power and politics which enables those adept at both to get to the top of the hierarchy .
13 It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work .
14 The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading .
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