Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 2 | He was slow to release her , holding her even when his mouth had disclaimed hers , turning his golden head slowly to greet the newcomer , one arm still possessively around her waist . |
| 3 | There go right to see the Palazzo Erba-Odescalchi , a sumptuous palazzo built by the Cusani family in the early 1500s , although it takes its name from a later Archbishop who used it as his palace in the eighteenth-century . |
| 4 | To some degree , managers do have a responsibility to control costs or rather to optimise the use of available resources . |
| 5 | Alerted by a slight sound , she again opened her eyes , turning her head slowly to see a cup and saucer being placed on a nearby small table . |
| 6 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 7 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 8 | Many of the programmes do little to stimulate the mind and sitting in a chair staring at a screen is not too good for the body either . |
| 9 | Only hours before a meeting in New York on May 13th with holders of GPA 's unsecured bonds and medium-term notes ( MTNs ) , he clinched a deal in which GE Capital ( the finance arm of America 's General Electric ) stands eventually to acquire the bulk of GPA 's equity . |
| 10 | It acquired its stake in the early 1980s , hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group . |
| 11 | For the growth of a forest , the fires have to be stopped and some enrichment planting of early successional species tried , e.g. Canarium zeylanicum ( Burseraceae ) , Artocarpus nobilis ( Moraceae ) and Vitex pinnata ( Verbenaceae ) , etc. to restore the tree cover . |
| 12 | There also arises a more general question , which is whether it is open to this court to exercise the statutory discretion conferred by section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , or R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) , so as to perfect an invalid order of committal and thereby to continue the imprisonment of a contemnor currently in prison under an invalid order . |
| 13 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 14 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 15 | Yes , of course : but the change of definition and the explanation advanced in support of the change serve rather to emphasise the reality that , after 1834 , emergent trade unionism moved towards a juncture with the system it could not supplant . |
| 16 | Although they had already proved their skills with other publications , this book probably did most to signal the arrival of the Japanese as major quality printers in western markets . |
| 17 | Outer London authorities were mostly likely to report a decrease in allocation of money : only Wales and Northern Ireland uniformly reported no decreases , while Northern Ireland authorities were the only group uniformly to report an increase in expenditure . |
| 18 | Merely a questioning underline , presumably to emphasise the looseness of the phrase . |
| 19 | Holding a dog properly to enable a vet to make the injection requires skill and , on some occasions , a veterinary nurse may not be there to help . |
| 20 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 21 | However , local farmers found themselves unable effectively to combat the pollution or even to extract adequate damages from the company . |
| 22 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 23 | Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be . |
| 24 | Hamilton , presumably to fool the Abwehr if they had wind of it , was told not to reply to the suggestion of a meeting outside England until the day after Hess had flown . |
| 25 | The front of the shop was open to the street , but large blocks of stone set at intervals across the threshold carried rebates for timber uprights , presumably to support the gable or perhaps an upper storey . |
| 26 | Given the close relationship between the occupational behaviour of working-class adolescents and their ‘ personality ’ , reformers faced certain difficulties : how to imbue them with approved ethical principles ; how to turn them into efficient workers ; how effectively to reorganize the labour-market for social and economic ends . |
| 27 | In one case the doctor 's name appeared in a promotional brochure as medical adviser to a company marketing an electrical device that was claimed successfully to treat a range of conditions including migraine , arthritis , insomnia , and depression . |
| 28 | Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry . |
| 29 | I had neither , so I plodded stoically through the mire turning a corner eventually to see the summit of Ingleborough framed by the walls of the lane . |
| 30 | The question then is to distinguish cases in which the public benefit is direct and entire from those in which it is indirect and partial , and thereby to obtain a definition which , unlike Lord Macnaghten 's , is a sufficient as well as a necessary condition of charity . |