Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1960s , Ceauşescu himself had called for a strengthening of the traditional family , but when that failed to have the desired effect of boosting the birth-rate , the regime reversed its direction from promoting old-fashioned morality as a stimulus to conception . |
| 2 | The Government said parents knew best but that failed to recognise the professionalism of teachers and the close links between teachers , parents and schools . |
| 3 | Most of the women who are high on one measure are high on the other , and those who are low tend to show the same symmetry . |
| 4 | Each agrees to accept the dividend in full satisfaction in consideration of every other creditor who is a party to the agreement doing so . |
| 5 | The rich tend to buy the services of doctors and the poor purchase mostly unprescribed medicines from pharmacists . |
| 6 | So they will continue to arise , but I think that it is right to plan to accommodate the ones that you know about . |
| 7 | Repeated referendums were held between 1983 and 1990 in an attempt to achieve this end , but each failed to secure the necessary 75 per cent approval level [ see p. 37251 ] . |
| 8 | None of the big guns will be involved as Lisnagarvey , Banbridge and holders Holywood — each expected to reach the floodlit semi-finals of the competition — take time out to assist English national league side East Grinstead in their pre-season preparations . |
| 9 | None of the big guns will be involved as Lisnagarvey , Banbridge and holders Holywood — each expected to reach the floodlit semi-finals of the competition — take time out to assist English national league side East Grinstead in their pre-season preparations . |
| 10 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 11 | Though Labour intended to invite the ‘ best and brightest ’ from among a whole range of people who had achieved acclaim in their chosen fields , the audience for this informal reception had a distinctive literary bent . |
| 12 | It is difficult to react adequately to George Woodcock 's silly comment that in Leonard 's first two books of poetry ‘ the thirties urge to relate the imagery of poetry to the world we live in , as the world we dream , might never have existed . ’ |
| 13 | Ten years younger than his wife , he was the youngest son of the Revd George Fyler Townesend and grandson of the Revd George Townsend [ sic ] [ q.v. ] , a redoubtable cleric who had travelled to Italy in 1850 to try to convert the pope . |
| 14 | It is clearly absurd to try to restrict the teaching of measurement to mathematics , and the teaching of good , clear writing to English . |
| 15 | In this situation , it is possible to try to group the postholes with similar characteristics , such as depth , diameter , and so on , and then to see if patterns of similar postholes reveal likely structures , such as circular or rectangular buildings . |
| 16 | They were all duly sentenced , those villagers of Snodland , were to walk bare foot after the procession on the following Sunday , each charged to carry a taper worth a halfpenny which they should offer up to the Holy Cross . |
| 17 | The world is so full of a number of things that it would be hopeless to try to study every kind of animal or plant . |
| 18 | Apart from straightforward fountains , ornaments depicting cherubs , mermaids and similar characters can be purchased , each designed to take a pump outlet so that water can spout from its mouth ( Fig. 6 ) , or a shell , or any similar object that they might be holding . |
| 19 | We 've nurtured different varieties , each designed to do a particular job perfectly . |
| 20 | Initially these are single-point characters , each designed to make a particular contribution to the course of the story , but during the narrative the lads , all around seventeen or eighteen , act with a degree of independence which lends a new depth to the book . |
| 21 | The book is divided into seven chapters , each reasonably self-contained , and each designed to provide the serious student with a critical review of its subject-matter as a basis for further research . |
| 22 | He was right to try to improve the English game , but he tried to change too much too quickly . |
| 23 | Certainly the majority of people believed that the USA was right to try to prevent a Communist take-over in South Vietnam . |
| 24 | Sheila Scott , a state-registered nurse from Hendon , said the Government was right to try to make the NHS more cost-conscious . |
| 25 | The two authorities each promised to reimburse the tram company for the realignment of the rails in its own area . |
| 26 | She , and many of the women like her whom I met , still does all the housework , just like before , and on top of that has to manage the effect of her husband 's traumatic discovery of something women have always known — what it feels like to be economically dependent . |
| 27 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 28 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 29 | It is as impossible as it is undesirable to try to put the clock back and treat the majority of pupils as being necessarily philosophical and theological infants incapable of any more . |
| 30 | Luckily , the Herxheimer reaction is less common in late syphilis , but it is still usual to try to lessen the chances of adverse reaction by giving anti-inflammatory steroid tablets before treatment begins . |