Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |
| 2 | All of these people would be affected by the Labour proposals to introduce a new top income tax rate of 50 per cent , and to extend national insurance contributions on salaries above £21,000 . |
| 3 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 4 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 5 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 6 | But the bearing of children at advanced ages to satisfy a demand for large numbers of them as , for example , in the Africa region is associated both with higher levels of maternal mortality , early childhood mortality and the morbidity of infants and young children . |
| 7 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 8 | This was the general , and rather bleak , attitude behind his specific attempts to reach a formula for what was in effect a new Christian activism . |
| 9 | The manager who has the job of making any decision should have the technical skills to make a sensible decision and avoid unnecessary mistakes . |
| 10 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 11 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no specific plans to meet the ambassador , but both he and I have met him recently . |
| 13 | Now , in the last decade of the century , we have an opportunity through our European institutions to create a wider prosperity and a more lasting peace for all the peoples and all the countries of Europe . |
| 14 | This was an initiative sponsored by the SDLP at first intended to bring together politicians from both catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist groups to discuss the future of the island as a whole . |
| 15 | Sanchez reached into his shirt pocket and drew out a fat paper cylinder , stroking its length with pursed fingers to smooth the kinks . |
| 16 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 17 | But the court declined to articulate specific rules to guide the ‘ delicate task of adjudication ’ . |
| 18 | Each day 's meals have been put together by nutritional experts to provide the right foods in the right proportion and this includes proteins , fats , fibre , vitamins and minerals . |
| 19 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 20 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 21 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 22 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 23 | Its future , however , is uncertain , extensive plans to integrate the building into part of a much bigger new-build scheme having been put on hold . |
| 24 | Some demonstrators attempted to cross the border , prompting the Iranian authorities to issue a protest to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 26 | ‘ It should not only be retained but given the go-ahead for further development , involving new advanced PWRs to replace the aging Magnoxes . |
| 27 | The centre , in a joint venture with the LTA 's ITI scheme , has recently added five indoor courts to supplement the already existing five outdoor , floodlit courts , although the overall management of the Centre remains with JTC — and Lawson . |
| 28 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 29 | It can also be a tool of social and economic policies to help the aged , the homeless , single-parent families and the handicapped to obtain housing , as well as to provide flexibility in the attraction of key workers . |
| 30 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |