Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 2 | Further , the decision to implement criminal law legislation did not originate with the state in the narrow sense at all , but with purity and feminist groups who were increasingly taking the lead in sexual politics . |
| 3 | Athena is part of the Pentos Group which also owns Ryman and the Dillons bookshop chain and it has a substantial organisation which goes into play to support new franchisees . |
| 4 | Casting grave doubt on the future of any in-house repository at IBM Corp , the company has extended its existing licence for Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench Framework to include non-Unix IBM systems such as OS/2 — the original licence for the software engineering tools environment covered IBM 's AIX-based development offerings only . |
| 5 | It was also possible for the user to input these characters , by re-programming the keyboard . |
| 6 | This can affect people 's willingness to report certain crimes , which has contributed to recent increases in the official statistics for racial attacks , domestic violence , and child abuse . |
| 7 | Shadow Education Secretary Ann Taylor said that instead of asking the Treasury for more money to restore crumbling schools , Mr Patten ‘ is actually volunteering to cut standards and to cram ever larger classes into smaller rooms ’ . |
| 8 | She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills . |
| 9 | The lengthy period which most party leaders have already spent in Parliament before gaining office certainly gives them time and opportunity to acquire suitable skills . |
| 10 | Woman 's inability to be content with either living in the orbit of the male ‘ I ’ or repressing her desire into ‘ hystery ’ is a result of the fact that male desire is an essentially narcissistic ‘ Pygmalion urge ’ to invent woman in its own image , while permitting the male subject the freedom to enjoy multiple reflections . |
| 11 | The pupils probed the boundaries of accepted behaviour , trading the acceptance of a physical rebuke for the freedom to enjoy verbal skirmishing of a kind that would be generally unacceptable in school . |
| 12 | This was not found to be the case , although the number of people in each profession was far too small for this finding to carry much weight . |
| 13 | In our experience , treatment of the data as a conventional heavy-atom derivative problem , combined with the use of a maximum-likelihood algorithm to estimate heavy-atom parameters , gave somewhat better maps than the algebraic formalism . |
| 14 | C&A has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to erect three store signs on the Cornmill Centre . |
| 15 | At first sight the paradox that liberalism requires not only freedom of contract but also freedom to breach any contract is quickly resolved . |
| 16 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 17 | Pete Goss took a group up to the foredeck to demonstrate a spinnaker hoist , four were dispatched to the leeward rail to induce some heel and to those in the cockpit Nick commanded : ‘ Well , do n't just sit there , get tying knots . ’ |
| 18 | The details of this highly publicised scheme are well documented ( eg Challis , 1988 ) , its main features being : the employment of social workers as case managers , with case loads of 25 to 30 dependent elderly people , and with control over a decentralised budget to enable additional facilities or care ( in the shape of specially recruited local helpers ) to be purchased over and above the receipt of normal services . |
| 19 | The committee must , however , rely on Parliament to enforce these powers . |
| 20 | Placing all religions on an equal legal footing , it guaranteed to individuals the freedom to decide whether or not to profess and practice a religion , and guaranteed to religious organizations the freedom to perform religious rites and to open new places of worship . |
| 21 | Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts . |
| 22 | An injunction was granted in that case to enforce that duty ordering the owner to maintain a hoarding around a vacant piece of his land or find some other way to prevent trespassers from using and depositing filth and refuse there , which amongst other things , gave rise to foul odours . |
| 23 | We therefore used the remission/mild disease category to include both patients in remission and patients with mildly active disease . |
| 24 | De Pomiane was the first writer to propound such happenings as the fusion of egg yolks and olive oil in a mayonnaise , the sizzling of a potato chip when plunged into fat for deep-frying , in language so straightforward , so graphic , that even the least scientifically minded could grasp the principles instead of simply learning the rules . |
| 25 | In addition , it defined the responsibilities and rights of parents ; established the Scottish Examination Board to conduct Scottish Certificate of Education ( SCE ) examinations ; set up committees for negotiating teachers ' pay settlements , laying down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached ; and made provision for children with special educational needs . |
| 26 | Many of the older houses and walls are built of cobbles from the sea shore , and there is a fair amount of new building to accommodate young people and those who wish to retire here . |
| 27 | If you wish to drive Large Goods Vehicles over 7.5 tonnes maximum authorised mass , or Passenger Carrying Vehicles for hire or reward , you must hold a licence indicating entitlement to drive those vehicles . |
| 28 | This Form should be used to apply for an ordinary driving licence and for entitlement to drive Large Goods Vehicles ( LGVs ) and/or Passenger Carrying Vehicles ( PCVs ) . |
| 29 | That will give you an opportunity to spot missing fasteners , cracked fairings , corrosion and chipped paint : then deal with them . |
| 30 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |