Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC is spending large sums on projects expressly designed to support cattle farmers : building refrigerated abattoirs in Burkina Faso , improving cattle breeds in Mali and fattening cattle in northern Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana . |
| 2 | If they sell , they acknowledge a loss which may exceed the discount that secured creditors eventually have to accept . |
| 3 | In deeper channels , black and highly carbonaceous muds eventually form to create anaerobic conditions . |
| 4 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 5 | Allegations made in Moscow suggest that , in contravention of the 1983 London Dumping Convention , Soviet authorities secretly continued to dump thousands of tons of radioactive waste in the sea off the northern coast until 1986 . |
| 6 | A lot of pop music is cheapened by musicians badly trying to explain what their songs mean . ’ |
| 7 | And as midfielder Ian Crook , who gave a fine passing display against his old team says , the clubs most fancied to topple the Canaries — Villa , Manchester United , and Blackburn — have yet to visit Carrow Road . |
| 8 | A sitting scheduled for Oct. 19 was cancelled , and the UDF deputies only agreed to return to the Assembly after a compromise was reached in crisis talks with Zhelev . |
| 9 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 10 | The need for such products only begins to arise when documents containing mixed text and graphics are considered ; newsletters , brochures or catalogues for example . |
| 11 | Will the Minister ensure that when the Housing Executive engages in new build it will incorporate in every scheme a large number of two-bedroomed bungalows and a number of houses especially built to cater for the needs of the disabled ? |
| 12 | Similarly , his idea that contact between different cultures merely led to decay and that Magian Jews and Faustian Europeans were bound to live in friction with each other , was to be an important intellectual influence on Mosley 's cultural anti-semitism and to re-inforce his later views on apartheid . |
| 13 | By mid-February opponents of the government 's privatization law , narrowly approved by Congress with Colorado support in late September 1991 , had successfully gathered the 12,000 signatures constitutionally required to continue their campaign for a referendum on privatization . |
| 14 | Indeed Saudi Arabia openly opposed Brezhnev 's proposals ; the Saudis apparently wished to retain the option of an American presence in the Gulf The UAE were also critical of the Soviet plan , while a Foreign Ministry spokesman for Oman rejected it outright . |
| 15 | The acquisition of the clubs only served to inflame the disagreements between Branson and Nik Powell . |
| 16 | At issue yesterday — the Sejm deputies prudently decided to adjourn their debate until Monday — as the first spoonful of the bitter economic medicine announced this week to restore a market economy ‘ in the swiftest possible way ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Until this issue is resolved … at the individual level there is concern that charges could be used to limit demand for services and may lead to major problems of access to services between authorities , with health authorities perhaps having to provide services in inappropriate settings … ’ |
| 18 | Against these spectres the OECD/IEA world ( without in all cases necessarily seeking to act collectively ) could envisage two possible lines of action : ( a ) setting in motion the IEA contingency mechanism for an ‘ emergency sharing program ’ ; and ( b ) taking military action ( e.g. on the lines of the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ ) to preempt the development of a shortage , in other words , preventing any breakdown in navigation . |
| 19 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 20 | Beginners and intermediate trainers rarely need to do more than squats or calf raises to achieve good leg development . |
| 21 | For cattle , a single strand is generally enough if the shock is strong enough and the animals properly trained to respect it . |
| 22 | Lock-in agreements , where parties expressly agree to negotiate with each other , are unenforceable because they are merely " agreements to agree " and so lack certainty ; lock-out agreements , under which a vendor agrees not to negotiate with third parties , can , on the other hand , constitute valid binding contracts . |
| 23 | Aerial work pilots such as crop-sprayers , aerial photographers , power-line inspectors etc. have to give great concentration to their work and have little opportunity to scan the sky for aircraft approaching at high speed . |
| 24 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 25 | Despite many cultural imports from China during their subsequent history , the islanders conspicuously failed to acquire a reverence for jade . |
| 26 | Yet the law imposed prescriptions apparently designed to mark off the Jews from other nations . |
| 27 | Dukakis seemed to be reciting words merely to try to manipulate voters . |
| 28 | As one working-class member of FMS recalled : " the other women 's organizations only met to play poker , canasta and generally show off " ( Frida , interview with AMES , Mexico , June 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 30 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |