Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not even proved possible to enforce the 1891 Factory Act , which obliged all women to take one month off after childbirth . |
| 2 | Detectives are due to interview the five men later today . |
| 3 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 4 | Unlisted Securities Market-quoted Sherwood , chaired by David Parker , is due to report the 30 per cent-plus profits increase on Tuesday . |
| 5 | The Great Bear is now practically overhead ; Capella is fairly high in the west and Vega in the east , so that it is interesting to compare the two ; in brightness they are almost equal , but Capella is a yellow star whereas Vega is vivid blue . |
| 6 | It is interesting to compare the two years . |
| 7 | MALTA said yesterday that it was willing to accept the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing for trial on the island if all parties agreed . |
| 8 | It remained to be seen whether he would be willing to answer the one question for which Dougal needed an answer . |
| 9 | Labour also claimed that ministers , hiding behind ‘ public interest immunity certificates ’ , were prepared to let the three men be tried . |
| 10 | First of all we 're not prepared to put the nine thousand back into the environment committee budget to er to save the cooperative development agency . |
| 11 | His decision is now being appealed and Mrs Hamilton was in court yesterday when it was contended that Lord Prosser had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 12 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 13 | Sometimes time series exhibit an obvious change in level and it may be sensible to analyse the two halves separately , producing two roughs and two smooths . |
| 14 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 15 | That Van Butchell was willing to pay the 100 guineas is interesting and suggests that there were no bounds to his eccentricities . |
| 16 | Several states might have been willing to follow the Six in their ventures if Britain had been willing to join . |
| 17 | SOUTH Africa were yesterday given the all clear to enter the 1994 World Cup . |
| 18 | Okay , we 'd be willing to up the the , be willing to up the ten to twelve . |
| 19 | But surely it would be more appropriate to see the two perspectives as complementary . |
| 20 | With the spirit at mass events like Band Aid and Mandela Day , it would be easy to see the Eighties as a humane , caring decade . |
| 21 | However , it seems to us quite impossible to rewrite the two agreements in this matter as a matter of construction … |
| 22 | Size is often difficult to judge , but the rounded wings of the buzzard are so much shorter that once the sheer length of an eagle 's wings has been experienced , it is impossible to mistake the two . |
| 23 | She knew they could kick well and seeing ballet dancers on pointe , not being a dancer , thought it would be simple to combine the two . |
| 24 | They said that it was impossible to abandon the 20 per cent . |
| 25 | It was easy to confuse the two . |
| 26 | It is impossible to divorce the two . |
| 27 | In reality , however , it is not so easy to separate the two . |
| 28 | The problem with value measurements is that they necessarily have a price and quantity component and it is not always easy to separate the two . |
| 29 | Should I assume it would be unsafe to add the two smaller Gold Severums to the 4ft 6″ tank , or some not-much-bigger Green Severums ? |
| 30 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |