Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prague , Budapest and Berlin Various combinations by air or coach with special arrangements in all the countries concerned for student or older groups to plan their own programmes ( min 10 ) . |
| 2 | The reduction was intended not only to save central government expenditure but also to put pressure on local authorities to curb their own spending by increasing the local cost thus making the expenditure more ‘ visible ’ to both councillors and the electorate . |
| 3 | It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances . |
| 4 | The scope for member states to promote their own culture through funds and subsidies remains . |
| 5 | The Brundtland Commission may have made sustainable development the end-of-century watchword , defining it as ‘ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ’ , but even Tolba has wondered aloud whether it amounts to much more than a shibboleth . |
| 6 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 7 | A basic principle of sustainability is that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs . |
| 8 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 9 | But interest in the work is running high , and Russian and Chinese teams have established contact with the Greeks and are drawing up plans to establish their own networks . |
| 10 | My family health services authority is making plans to establish its own primary health care research ethics committee . |
| 11 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 12 | He no doubt intended to bring the local Forest administration more closely under his control : he certainly used his opportunities to promote his own relatives . |
| 13 | The exclusion of wills and conveyancing originated in a recommendation of the Legal Aid Scrutiny that public money should be directed towards the enforcement or defence of rights and not simply to enable clients to arrange their own affairs . |
| 14 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 15 | Computer-based services : Most banks now use computers to process their own transactions . |
| 16 | In addition , any company intent on controlling expenditure should be examining how much it should be laying off risk in this way when , as Drew Hardie , divisional director of Willis Corroon in Edinburgh , points out , ‘ insurance is a cost-plus product with a substantial proportion of premiums — say , 30 per cent or 40 per cent — used by insurers to meet their own overheads ’ . |
| 17 | She does not expect her readers to accept her own conclusions verbatim , but urges them to make a similar creative attempt to listen for the deeper implications of the Christian message , to reach through the dogmas and intellectual propositions , which can never do justice to the ineffable mystery of the divine , and touch the heart of the faith . |
| 18 | By reading good examples of descriptions , explanation , opinions , etc and by being given purposeful opportunities to write their own , they should be helped to plan and produce these more demanding types of writing . |
| 19 | The spectacle is intended for her too as part of the audience , but she can not become a pair of eyes to view her own humiliation . |
| 20 | When the marriage is good , a husband may be able to encourage his wife to see the many compensations in store , including the opportunities to explore their own interests and reinforce their commitment to each other . |
| 21 | As was his custom , Sukarno adapted Nehru 's actual words to reflect his own hostility to the Dutch and his growing admiration for Japan . |
| 22 | Among the best were those which posed questions and encouraged individual schools to evaluate their own practice , eg |
| 23 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 24 | Pupils will appreciate the distinctive elements of period music , if they are given opportunities to create their own music using elements/themes , rhythms from earlier music . |
| 25 | Since almost all those on death row come from impoverished backgrounds they lack the funds to hire their own attorney and will be appointed counsel by the Court . |
| 26 | Opposition Members are cutting off their noses to spite their own faces by encouraging Mr. Millan to withhold our money . |
| 27 | In a separate Commons debate on the Disability ( Grants ) Bill , which brings in the two new independent living funds , Scott was asked whether local authorities could provide cash for clients to buy their own care . |
| 28 | Encourage clients to identify their own personal chain of catastrophic thoughts . |
| 29 | Next day Mary took Frankie , Liza and me to the shops to buy us some new clothes for the wedding . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , when a minister with a firm grip on government patronage was involved , a refusal to offer such a return would effectively deprive the member of parliament of further opportunities to aid his own constituents . |