Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next few days there was much wild talk about the dangers of allowing Labour to take office , and many wild schemes were designed to avert them . |
| 2 | Certainly if it became possible to detect problems earlier in the pregnancy it would make it easier for mothers to abort their children . |
| 3 | Once it had been opened , it became possible to test patients ' sera in parallel , thereby convincing other doctors that their tests could be improved . |
| 4 | By the late 1920s when it became possible to send cars away to Hendon for a thorough overhaul , they were all in really tired condition . |
| 5 | It became possible to change trains again at the Welsh mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 6 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |
| 7 | Certainly it became economic to pay recording artists large fees ; and without mass-production , few recordings of top artists would survive in playable form today . |
| 8 | Tax total to top £1,200 for some |
| 9 | The discovery that the availability of gur was subject to seasonal fluctuations ( as described in the previous chapter ) led BRAC to consider rice as an alternative . |
| 10 | Consultants will remain free to refer patients to a specialist in another hospital although the department has yet to decide the mechanism for payment . |
| 11 | The department adds that GPs must remain free to send patients to hospitals with which their district has no contract . |
| 12 | None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances . |
| 13 | It immediately became economical to use polythene for all kinds of products , like plastic bags , which nobody had ever contemplated previously . |
| 14 | Nev 's ten years experience of using TOP to help turn Delmarva into the best in the business was fascinating . |
| 15 | Finally , in order to have a word with the silent Cis , I asked Elfed to fetch Richard , who had been awaiting in the kitchen the result of the meeting . |
| 16 | Although he immediately became favourite to succeed Roh as President when his term of office expired in February 1993 , the delicate factional structure of the DLP meant that Roh was reluctant to endorse him as his chosen successor . |
| 17 | At last it is becoming possible to include production quality scanned images in desktop publishing . |
| 18 | In countries of labour shortage , undeveloped social hierarchy and a truculent and democratic working population , things might be different ; but in Britain and Germany , France and the Habsburg Empire , unlike Australia or the United States , the suitable maximum for the labouring class was a sufficiency of good decent food ( preferably with less than a sufficiency of strong drink ) , a modestly crowded dwelling , and clothing adequate to protect morals , health and comfort without risking improper emulation of the costume of their betters . |
| 19 | That should be good news for Jack Russell but bad news for Mike Atherton , who had looked favourite to partner Gooch if Stewart kept wicket and batted in the middle order . |
| 20 | Hunter headed clear to deny Norris his hat-trick and by the end the Dragons were hardly breathing fire . |
| 21 | However , until the middle of the eighteenth century it was considered impracticable to keep fleets continually at sea throughout the winter because of the severe and rapid deterioration in the condition of the ships . |
| 22 | Lightly sand the door with fine wet-and-dry paper , used wet to prevent surface scratches . |
| 23 | One of the major distinctions between the different approaches to language description already discussed concerns the extent to which it is deemed appropriate to regard language behaviour as being a reflection of an underlying knowledge base . |
| 24 | A case that looks set to rival Outhwaite in notoriety concerns two Feltrim syndicates , where at least £200m of losses are emerging on ‘ excess-of-loss ’ insurance in 1987–89 . |
| 25 | Yitsak Shamir looks set to form Israel 's next government ; he 's likely to take a hard line . |
| 26 | Brian Garrow from America , ranked in the world 's top 90 before an injury six months ago , looks set to give Bates one of the strongest challenges — yet was dismissed 6–4 6–0 leaving the coast clear for his second final . |
| 27 | Crystal Palace 's Nigel Martyn looks set to replace Chris Woods and Arsenal trio Nigel Winterburn , Paul Merson and Ian Wright are probables . |
| 28 | But , instead , they preferred one-day specialist Reeve , who now looks set to face Australia . |
| 29 | They include ‘ speed restraint points ’ ( which appear similar to speed tables or raised crossings ) ; speed control bends of more than 90 degrees deflection and with tight radii and mountable shoulders ; speed control islands to interrupt unavoidably long and straight stretches of road where speeds would otherwise be excessive ; and speed control humps , though it is warned that these ‘ ought not to be used in new housing schemes when other speed reducing features would be effective . ’ |
| 30 | In the late 1960s it was considered impossible to generate computer imagery at a high enough resolution to project onto a Cinerama screen — the electronic equivalent of ‘ grain' would have been unacceptably coarse and spotty . |