Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 2 | However , Sutherland and Cressey do go on to include a consideration of poverty , unemployment , bad housing , and the like , under the heading of ‘ social situations which are most conducive to crime ’ . |
| 3 | He was slow to release her , holding her even when his mouth had disclaimed hers , turning his golden head slowly to greet the newcomer , one arm still possessively around her waist . |
| 4 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 5 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 6 | Baker then went on to emphasise the need for a wide-bandwidth system to cope with services such as home shopping , banking , burglar alarms , fire alarms , and message transmission . |
| 7 | He went on to emphasise the importance of the national veto and said : ’ When I urged that there should be democratic control , I had in mind that Ministers are the representatives of their Governments and they are the ones who take the decisions . |
| 8 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 9 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 10 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 11 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 12 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 13 | It mounted the kerb , where it struck Miss Chui and then carried on to hit a fence and a lamp-post before coming to rest in the middle of Elmstead Road . |
| 14 | Only hours before a meeting in New York on May 13th with holders of GPA 's unsecured bonds and medium-term notes ( MTNs ) , he clinched a deal in which GE Capital ( the finance arm of America 's General Electric ) stands eventually to acquire the bulk of GPA 's equity . |
| 15 | It acquired its stake in the early 1980s , hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group . |
| 16 | For the growth of a forest , the fires have to be stopped and some enrichment planting of early successional species tried , e.g. Canarium zeylanicum ( Burseraceae ) , Artocarpus nobilis ( Moraceae ) and Vitex pinnata ( Verbenaceae ) , etc. to restore the tree cover . |
| 17 | There also arises a more general question , which is whether it is open to this court to exercise the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , or R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , so as to perfect an invalid order of committal and thereby to continue the imprisonment of a contemnor currently in prison under an invalid order . |
| 18 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 19 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 20 | Her parents refused consent for an operation to remove the obstruction , although there were no grounds to suppose that if the outcome of the operation was successful , Alexandra would not go on to enjoy a life of some longevity . |
| 21 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 22 | Yes , of course : but the change of definition and the explanation advanced in support of the change serve rather to emphasise the reality that , after 1834 , emergent trade unionism moved towards a juncture with the system it could not supplant . |
| 23 | Although they had already proved their skills with other publications , this book probably did most to signal the arrival of the Japanese as major quality printers in western markets . |
| 24 | Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure . |
| 25 | Merely a questioning underline , presumably to emphasise the looseness of the phrase . |
| 26 | Pater 's measured prose goes on to connect the picture with drawings by Verrocchio , speculate on the artist and the sitter , and wonder about how long the picture was in progress . |
| 27 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 28 | However , just as the former advertising salesman had proved in a back-alley off St James ' , that location , location and location was not always sacrosanct if you had an exciting and original concept like The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory , so he went on to confirm the theory at The Rib Shack , tucked away in a side street opposite Harrods . |
| 29 | Holding a dog properly to enable a vet to make the injection requires skill and , on some occasions , a veterinary nurse may not be there to help . |
| 30 | She went on to issue a challenge to parents : ‘ The Government is allowing Essex to spend as little as £62 per child for a whole year . |