Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , while the growth of the international financial system would seem to imply the need for increasingly centralised decision-making , individual countries were unlikely to be willing to relinquish the freedom to conduct their own economic affairs for the sake of the greater international good . |
| 2 | Legislators and civil servants in the US enjoy a degree of independence and freedom to go their own way that is unheard of in the UK . |
| 3 | Current EC research workplans in biotechnology ( See below ) offer the possibility of collaborative training and research programmes between institutions , and this would offer our own staff the opportunity of acquiring the necessary information and expertise to plan our own future requirements in this field . |
| 4 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 5 | This was , in fact , the key to Franco 's foreign policy throughout the Second World War : he viewed it primarily in terms of an opportunity to realize his own expansionist aims in Morocco . |
| 6 | Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones … |
| 7 | Cuthbert Welch , the medical officer of health , took the opportunity to emphasise his own higher responsibilities . |
| 8 | They had no great love for Conservatism , but , given the tenor of Liberal politics , saw the Conservative party as the last hope in a struggle to preserve their own brand of Liberalism . |
| 9 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 10 | Others would use this capitalization to acquire their own house . |
| 11 | Instead , he destabilized his own government by selecting totally inadequate ministers and , deferring to his hysterical wife , allowed the depraved ‘ holy man ’ Rasputin to tarnish his own popular image and that of tsarism itself . |
| 12 | 1.32 Patients now have an entitlement to see their own medical records under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 which came into force on 1 November 1991 and applies to records created after that date . |
| 13 | It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances . |
| 14 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 15 | She should be given the opportunity to provide her own solution . |
| 16 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 17 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 18 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 19 | Difficult or not , Hermés went ahead and told Ross Lovegrove to write his own brief and design whatever he wanted . |
| 20 | Hermés told Lovegrove to write his own brief and design whatever he wanted |
| 21 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 22 | Another contender may be the emerging empire of Thaksin Shinawatra , who began by distributing IBM computers in Thailand , set up the country 's first cable-television operation and has now received permission to establish his own cellular-telephone network . |
| 23 | But interest in the work is running high , and Russian and Chinese teams have established contact with the Greeks and are drawing up plans to establish their own networks . |
| 24 | My family health services authority is making plans to establish its own primary health care research ethics committee . |
| 25 | He also noted that Russia 's decision to establish its own armed forces had forced other states to consider setting up armies and concluding a defence pact . |
| 26 | He also noted that Russia 's decision to establish its own armed forces had forced other states to consider setting up armies and concluding a defence pact . |
| 27 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 28 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 29 | For Sultan Galiev , the picture was dominated by the need of the Islamic peoples of the Russias to secure their own liberation , not by the self-emancipation of the industrial working class of Europe . |
| 30 | Ultimately the universe in its totality is in some sense perfect , as also are its elements understood as required by the overall nature of that totality , but from the point of view of us who struggle within it things are called good or bad ( or by some such words ) according as to whether they promote our particular struggle to actualise our own nature . |