Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , 5 Corps had already considered it necessary to order that force should be permitted . |
| 2 | The exception merely illustrates the general defence , volenti non fit injuria , and would not need special mention here but for the fact that the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords have considered it expedient to take particular notice of it . |
| 3 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 4 | Fiercely anti-Vichy , Ika 's family had considered it patriotic to have duplicate ration-books ; these they had conveniently retained in a post-Vichy world , and so they wanted for little . |
| 5 | The Communards have done their best to offer added attractions : they put the politics farther upfront ( songs here about AIDS victimization and Thatcher 's election victory ) and recruited a group of talented women string players . |
| 6 | The blame must lie with the fertiliser manufacturers , who undoubtedly have done their best to encourage increased consumption by heavy advertising to farmers , and who in many cases also own farms themselves and supply seed of varieties specially bred to respond to high levels of nitrogen . |
| 7 | The barons of the party have done their best to avoid public arguments during the local elections . |
| 8 | There has been much misunderstanding , and the hon. Gentleman has done his best to manipulate that misunderstanding . |
| 9 | Many of the most wealthy merchants and industrialists were to be found in St Petersburg , where Peter had done his best to concentrate commercial activity . |
| 10 | He would have felt it demeaning to condemn this world utterly without first paying a visit to the vicinity of its ruler . |
| 11 | However , this has been a costly process and the fall in house prices since 1989 has made it impossible to earn adequate returns from these investments in the short-term . |
| 12 | It was suggested that Library staff could take over this function , since they are scanning the journals in any case , and the work would lend itself to the eventual creation of an image database , but Library staff shortages have made it impossible to undertake this work systematically . |
| 13 | Rice production had fallen , however , by 29 per cent ( to 29,300 tonnes ) , because rehabilitation work on the Massingir dam in Gaza province had made it impossible to supply sufficient water to irrigated land normally planted with rice in the Limpopo valley . |
| 14 | That dispute has made it impossible to produce audited accounts . ’ |
| 15 | I apologize for the fact that delays in obtaining some of the necessary information have made it impossible to produce detailed cost estimates , but the considerations listed below should enable us to determine whether such a change would be worthwhile . |
| 16 | Since the 1970s , developments in the understanding of genetic processes and the manipulation and culture of cells have made it possible to create living organisms that are tailored to meet specific human needs . |
| 17 | On the other hand , through the development of container transport , telecommunications and the division of production into simpler , semi-skilled tasks , technology has made it possible to transfer these tasks to new factories in Third World markets . |
| 18 | Recent advances in methods aimed at mapping chromosomal regions and isolating novel genes , have made it possible to develop comprehensive strategies for the positional cloning of human disease genes . |
| 19 | Recent advances in gene manipulation have made it possible to express foreign genes in heterologous systems . |
| 20 | Norse raids down the west coast had already made it necessary to move sacred relics from St Columba 's isle of Iona to relative safety at Dunkeld in Perthshire , which became the ecclesiastical centre of the Scottish realm , though kings continued to be buried on Iona , as did several Viking chieftains . |
| 21 | The combination in recent years of a floating pound and a weak balance of payments on current account had made it necessary to attract short term funds on capital account by maintaining high interest rates . |
| 22 | By the end of the 1950s , however , the failure of autarchy as an economic programme had made it necessary to seek other options , and these implied at least the modification of the existing political framework . |
| 23 | This was partly because the increasing integration of world capital markets has made it easier to finance current-account deficits . |
| 24 | The twelve-hour shift pattern was also an obstacle to change in that it would have made it difficult to recruit new staff for hospital development . |
| 25 | Mr Moynihan indulges in nostalgia for departed days ; like Milton 's devils , he writes , men have made themselves smaller to enter new prison cells . |
| 26 | In the cases it has dealt with to date , the Commission has shown itself willing to clear horizontal mergers which produce high market shares , where there is strong competition from actual or potential competitors . |
| 27 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |
| 28 | Although if he had done so we doubt whether that committee would have thought it necessary to take any proceedings against the barrister . |
| 29 | The only concession he made in Zaïs was to let Malherbe include in the preface the following statement : ‘ In the course of the work , M. Vincent d'Indy has thought it necessary to add certain viola parts , which are sometimes lacking in the original score , and to modify or complète wind parts that are too sketchily indicated ’ ( vol.16 , p.lviii ) . |
| 30 | So the Commission has thought it appropriate to include some consideration of these forms of communication in its Report . |