Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Public Service Vehicles ( Conduct of Drivers , Conductors and Passengers ) Regulations makes it an offence for a person to ‘ use obscene and offensive language , or to conduct himself in a riotous or disorderly manner . ’ |
| 2 | This includes activities undertaken by individuals to prevent disease or to detect it in an asymptomatic state . |
| 3 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 4 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 5 | Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions . |
| 6 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 7 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 8 | Until a sane , liberal regime is restored within the party itself , it will not be fully re-equipped either to arrive at the right policy choices or to project itself as a responsive party to the electorate . |
| 9 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 10 | It is because certain groups are held to exemplify the working of these laws that their structural positions or social attributes are held to possess a special explanatory power , or to equip them with a special ‘ totalizing ’ consciousness . |
| 11 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 12 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 13 | An intelligence , guided by a purpose , must be continually in action to bias the direction of the steps of change — to regulate their amount — to limit their divergence — and to continue them in a definite course … |
| 14 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 15 | It aims to train students in what used to be called " close reading " and to provide them with a critical awareness of the ideological , socio-cultural and historical constraints on the perception of what constitutes " literature " . |
| 16 | The publication by an LEA of a scheme such as Solihull 's is implicitly intended to signal this newly emphasized responsibility to teachers , to persuade them to accept it and to provide them with an agreed agenda for the review . |
| 17 | Mr Yeltsin had planned to leave that to Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the reform programme , and to restrict himself to a general state-of-the-nation address . |
| 18 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 19 | Essentially , the committee had agreed to disband COMECON altogether , and to replace it with a new body , to be known as the Organization for International Economic Co-operation ( OIEC ) . |
| 20 | There was also controversy over the Commission 's plans to abolish the zero rating of intra-EC exports with effect from January 1993 , and to replace it with a complex system of approximation under which a central clearing house would apportion VAT payments between the countries involved in a transaction . |
| 21 | The aim was , through the conjunction of good quality paper and inks , to eliminate a certain deadness and flatness inherent in the lithographic process and to replace it with a velvety depth and richness of colouring often lacking in English lithography . |
| 22 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 23 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 24 | However , it is likely to be preferable to limit the range of choices facing the teacher at any moment and to group them in a natural way from a teaching point of view . |
| 25 | Given the habit of The Times to diagnose working-class violence as a deterioration of the national character , and to equate it with a Southern ‘ hot-blooded ’ temperament , this was an intriguing turnabout on the racial origins of upper-class ruffianism . |
| 26 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 27 | These little leaves are like tongues or hands to sing or conduct the wind music , for of all trees , the beeches have the supreme choir and orchestra and to hear them in a high wind is to know divine music . |
| 28 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 29 | They should be able to analyse arguments and assess their validity , and to express themselves in a clear , exact and literate way . |
| 30 | Needlework and laundrywork provided an effective class and gender strategy , designed to prepared the prostitute for her correct place in the female labour force and to re-educate her into an approved feminine role . |