Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support . |
| 2 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 3 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 4 | Major pharmaceutical companies often did not have the multi-disciplinary expertise to develop the necessary products and processes and Chiros was collaborating with several of them , Richards said . |
| 5 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 6 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 7 | Seats and other fittings will be installed in due course to give the already huge exhibit even more scale — how small mankind has become alongside its creations ! |
| 8 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |
| 9 | The professor will be a member ex officio of the committee , and will be expected from time to time to hold offices such as that of Chairman of the Committee or Director of Graduate Studies , and in due course to assume the duties of professor in charge of the Institute , which are customarily rotated by arrangement . |
| 10 | The second volume , however , had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length . |
| 11 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 12 | Oh , and finally , might it be an idea for a political writer to do the interview ? |
| 13 | Recognising that consent must be based on a true appreciation of contents , this proposal reveals a strange inability to grasp the extent to which a work of art can rarely if ever be described or paraphrased with perfect accuracy . |
| 14 | Telford is also seeking European funding to investigate the application of new technology in the delivery of modules in English as a Foreign Language . |
| 15 | These allowances , plus a few others , are deducted from the total income to produce the taxable income . |
| 16 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 17 | Also included in the packing are a multi-way cable to link the tablet to the Spectrum 's edge connector , a cassette containing the software , a keyboard overlay and a wad of A5 sized photocopied paper that claims to be a manual . |
| 18 | Later he lay in bed beside Anne , trying to think of a satisfactory yet thoroughly non-committal story to tell the police . |
| 19 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 20 | Erm so think about if you 've got a non-working partner or somebody on a low income to spread the money er so that you , has anybody already done this er you know prior to retirement ? |
| 21 | There is absolutely no incentive for the second person on a low income to sign the application form because he is not liable to pay the tax . |
| 22 | That having taken this momentous decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we have taken a step of the most important step towards economic monetary union from which there can be no turning back . |
| 23 | Its function is not known as yet , but the leaf may serve as mobile camouflage to protect the fish from the eight species of kingfisher which feed along this river or it may act as a ‘ stalking horse ’ as the fish pursues its prey . |
| 24 | Just concentrate on watching out for the right opportunity to broach the subject of Janice , she reminded herself . |
| 25 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 26 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 27 | A measure of the relief from intractable heartburn and regurgitation was the patients ' expressed willingness to repeat the operation given circumstances similar to those before the first fundoplication . |
| 28 | In a telling demonstration of the current rift in Solidarity [ see pp. 37546 ; 37620-21 ] , the union 's national commission voted on Sept. 5 by a narrow majority to ban the use of the Solidarity logo on the masthead of Gazeta Wyborcza , the Solidarity newspaper created in the run-up to the 1989 parliamentary elections [ see p. 36724 ] . |
| 29 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 30 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |