Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Act aims to make public and thereby to control the use of personal data held on all types of computerised equipment . |
| 2 | However , local Electricity Boards have the right to inspect and test any electrical work they think may be unsafe and also to refuse a supply . |
| 3 | It would be easier to plant the tuber first , in a pot consisting of the above mentioned medium and then to place the pot in a shallow tank . |
| 4 | The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years . |
| 5 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 6 | To an outsider visiting Imperial College , some of the departments seem so large as almost to prevent a sense of unity . |
| 7 | This is a good ploy to get the children to shout loud but then to contain the noise within the call . |
| 8 | With premiums on many cars set to double AGAIN this year it 's more important than ever to find a way to cut costs on cover . |
| 9 | Heads adopting a ‘ managing director ’ or ‘ boss ’ role were more likely to be office-based and thus to run the risk of appearing remote from everyday classroom concerns , especially in larger schools . |
| 10 | For me , this rest in the colour scheme at this time of year is important if only to appreciate the exuberance of the other seasons all the more . |
| 11 | As Alan Fox , a major proponent and later critic of pluralism , has put it , ‘ The pluralist does not claim anything approaching perfection for this system … [ but the imbalances of strength between employers and unions … are not seen as so numerous or severe as generally to discredit the system either from the union 's point of view or the management 's ’ ( 1977 , p.136 ) . |
| 12 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 13 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |
| 14 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah yes — it 's becoming more difficult than ever to achieve a balance . |