Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political economist has to look behind policy choices to the structural context of international relations and to the context of the security structure influencing the definition of the role of the state in relation to markets , domestic and global . |
| 2 | And practically nothing has been done to establish effective machinery of joint conference between the representative organizations entitled to speak for industry as a whole . |
| 3 | He seeks to provide a substantive characterization of the concept of reality which will enable him to do two things : first , to show how certain rules and procedures are logically correct , how employment of them will suffice to guide us towards knowledge of reality ; secondly , to show how it can be rational for a self-controlled agent to seek to contribute to knowledge of reality . |
| 4 | In a democratic system political parties expect to alternate in office . |
| 5 | Before we went home , Brown Owl came to talk to Mum and Dad and she bent down and said ‘ Hello ’ to Natalie too . |
| 6 | Throughout the conference young people carrying olive branches continued to demonstrate in support of Palestinian participation . |
| 7 | Scottish Hydro decided to go to war , but with environmental considerations in mind opted for a psychological approach rather than the shotgun option . |
| 8 | However , Hitler 's scientists had developed another ‘ Victory ’ weapon — the ‘ V2 ’ — it was an advanced form of rocket with a nose-cap filled with high explosive designed to explode on impact . |
| 9 | Then , pre-marital sexual intercourse tended to occur during courtship shortly before marriage . |
| 10 | A Kenyan chartered accountant threatened to sue for loss of business . |
| 11 | Social workers looking to move into care management jobs will find recruitment opportunities at the Community Care Job Forum and Careers Convention in Manchester on 19 and 20 May . |
| 12 | But if the hon. Gentleman wants to know about investment , let me give him some information about investment . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to know about claptrap , he should listen to what he has just said . |
| 14 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 15 | Degree performance in arts and social sciences appears to increase with age , peaks in the 26–30 age group , and subsequently declines . |
| 16 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 17 | Neither he nor his associates really took alarm when Scottish forces began to assemble on Abbey Craig , a hill beside the Forth near Stirling . |
| 18 | The Iraqi government offered to co-operate in return for the lifting of economic sanctions and announced that it would send a mission to New York to discuss this with the UN Security Council on March 10 . |
| 19 | Practise the technique once or twice daily , but not within two hours after any meal , since the digestive processes seem to interfere with meditation . |
| 20 | Well , I 've heard of old lags wanting to die in jail , so I suppose it figures . |
| 21 | The social worker tried to mediate without success in the available time . |
| 22 | The numbers involved are large — nearly 1 million people are employed by the National Health Service alone — and the social services have to compete with industry , trade , other public services and , significant especially with doctors at the moment , the attractions of work abroad . |
| 23 | But the use of social services budgets to pay for driving lessons has been criticised by one of Gloucestershire 's MPs . |
| 24 | They used their extra income gained to stay at home to look after children . |
| 25 | A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war . |
| 26 | Where conditions of poverty and dependency and harmonious and pervasive personal relationships continue to predominate in agriculture then a source of ambiguity is present in the farm worker 's perceptions of the world around him . |
| 27 | Two early Christians chanced to meet in Heaven . |
| 28 | The average Westerner fails to take into account the fact that there are so many weak points on the human body . |
| 29 | The later authority was , of course , Ex parte Saunders , which the Divisional Court proceeded to analyse in detail . |
| 30 | The other kind of schematic knowledge has to do with mode of communication . |