Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in divided Germany and divided Korea , Ho Chi Minh and his comrades might have accepted that this was the reality : especially as it became ever more clear that the United States intended to uphold the status quo with all their power . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was precisely his determination to uphold the status quo which had led the Tsar to frustrate Stolypin , undermine the authority of the premiership and dismantle collective cabinet responsibility . |
| 3 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 4 | He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings . |
| 5 | Iraq was the only Arab state capable of challenging Israel 's military hegemony over the Middle East , therefore Iraq 's military power had to be destroyed in order to restore the status quo . |
| 6 | It reluctantly accepted many of Gorbachev 's proposed reforms ( it had no alternative to offer , apart from more of the policies of the past — and no effective alternative leader ) , but conservatives with vested interests tried to restore the status quo in the 1991 coup attempt . |
| 7 | In other words trying to restore the status quo er the status er that that that existed before section fifty four A er and and restoring flexibility that was perceived to exist then . |
| 8 | Since all the members of this class wish to preserve the status quo , they unite politically to support conservative regimes and oppose radical forces that propose significant social changes . |
| 9 | It is immensely important to us to preserve the status quo by the peaceful methods of arbitration and international co-operation , rather than by the maintenance of armies and navies which a return to the balance of power would force upon us . |
| 10 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 11 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 12 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 13 | It had the effect of driving all parties to the debate into separate corners : the employers wished to preserve the status quo . |
| 14 | As the purpose of an administration order is to give the company the necessary breathing space to achieve one or more of the purposes for which the order was made , the Act contains provisions designed to preserve the status quo and protect the property of the company against claims by creditors while the administrator attempts to achieve the purpose of the administration order . |
| 15 | The father came before the judge on an ex parte application designed to return the boy , A. , to the family , to protect the other three children and to preserve the status quo pending a decision by the judge as to where the children should live by making the appropriate applications for a residence order and so on . |
| 16 | There can be no question of seeking , simply as such , to preserve the status quo , although on particular facts that may well be the court 's objective as being in the best interests of the infant . |
| 17 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 18 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 19 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 20 | I had wanted to see the danse macabre preserved there , once part of the stonework of the cathedral at Nogykanizsa . |
| 21 | I want to see the status quo — the preservation of the system that the Home Secretary said on 2 July that he intended to abandon . |
| 22 | In order to develop a model for secretory diarrhoea and to confirm the in vitro effects of cholera toxin in man in vivo the effect of intrajejunally administered cholera toxin was investigated in healthy volunteers . |
| 23 | Erm and that 's why you do get erm er European liberals going over to Greece to support the er er the Greek revolutionaries . |
| 24 | Certainly many new social policies were shortly to come , but these did little to disrupt the status quo ; indeed , many must be seen as designed to preserve it . |
| 25 | He believes that the UFC is encouraging universities to reduce diversity , and to freeze the status quo . |
| 26 | An intention to displace the prima facie or primary meaning of the defined statutory term may appear in a number of ways . |
| 27 | This policy indicated past US appreciation of France 's role in confronting the Warsaw Pact and the will to encourage the de facto readmission of France into the integrated command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 28 | Torture remains an instrument of policy , death squads still operate and many hundreds of people are shot or stabbed every year for refusing to accept the status quo . |
| 29 | Members of both classes tend to accept the status quo as normal and natural and are largely unaware of the true nature of exploitation and oppression . |
| 30 | Wanting peace among themselves and achieving peace with everyone else , including the police and the fundamentally white power structure the police represent , are different things , both difficult to achieve — impossible , if they have to accept the status quo indefinitely . |