Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , if such an event occurred , everyone recognized that the PLO would be under intense external pressure to sacrifice the refugee right of return . |
| 2 | In R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , ex parte Northumbria Police Authority , the police authority sought judicial review to compel the Home Secretary to withdraw a circular issuing plastic bullets and CS gas to local police forces . |
| 3 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
| 4 | On the same day two of Spain 's leading private electricity companies ( Iberduero SA and Hidroeléctrica Española SA ) announced plans to merge to compete with the state-owned ENDESA ( Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA ) , in a move welcomed by the government which was aiming to reorganize the power industry and planned to introduce a new national energy plan by the end of July . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry , ’ Michael said as our photographer 's head banged against the ceiling , which has an unfortunate bulge in it to accommodate the sun roof . |
| 6 | Three bridges have been constructed — at the mineral railway , Lasswade Road and Gilmerton Road and are , in order to accommodate the Park Burn which crossed the rote in several places , two culverts have been built . |
| 7 | Two concrete drainage culverts have been constructed to accommodate the Park Burn which crossed the line of the Bypass at a number of locations . |
| 8 | The Home Unions have steadfastly refused to alter the timing of the tour to accommodate the Wallaby tour to South Africa and have also denied the ARU 's request to permit the Wallabies to tour South Africa prior to arriving in Ireland and Scotland . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , in order to accommodate the monarchist lobby , when the first local government elections since the Civil War were held , in Madrid , in November 1954 , Franco allowed a group of monarchists to stand as candidates alongside the official list . |
| 10 | Changes to guidance notes are needed to accommodate the Money Laundering Directive currently being implemented through the Criminal Justice Bill and supplementary European Community regulations . |
| 11 | This being sufficiently large to accommodate the circuit board , mains transformer , sockets , switch and volume controls . |
| 12 | I think that it would be true to say that , nowadays , most materialists want to avoid theories that are as nakedly behaviouristic as this , and want to accommodate the common-sense intuition that something inner and introspectible is missing in the blind or deaf , for example , in addition to their lost capacity to respond . |
| 13 | Make sure these holes are large enough to accommodate the strain relief bushes to be fitted later . |
| 14 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 15 | Negotiations are under way to acquire an additional 41,000 sq metres of land at Gonfreville to accommodate the town centre operations . |
| 16 | Dig a hole wide and deep enough to accommodate the root system without undue bending and fill it with water . |
| 17 | At the turn of the century the town expanded to accommodate the sugar cane workers , and a railway line led to the Haleiwa Hotel . |
| 18 | He also took a small stone from the centre of the strange formation , and shortly after his return home , he attended a meeting with other dowsers and suggested that it might be interesting to dowse the crop circle samples . |
| 19 | Not one to shirk the product testing , she eats in the restaurants five times a week and , on some occasions , has a chef cook the entire menu for her . |
| 20 | His only polite response to the chairman 's objections is to uphold the tact maxim ( " minimise the cost to others " ) superficially by claiming that his paper is not a " technical " one ( p. 88 ) and stating that he will 'speak a little slower " . |
| 21 | Likewise we suspect , from the ignorance he displays in scene one of Chetwyn and his work , that his praise of Chetwyn 's university , in the next scene , is given merely to uphold the approbation maxim and thus the Politeness Principle . |
| 22 | Both government and landlords continued to uphold the village commune as a convenient instrument for apportioning tax , labour dues , and , in many areas , allotments of land . |
| 23 | Following the IWC 's decision at that congress to uphold the whaling ban [ see p. 37630 ] , it was reported that Iceland was also reviewing its membership . |
| 24 | She was to uphold the family tradition . |
| 25 | At her best User Friendly would take some beating , but I take Bonny Scot to uphold the family tradition and confirm Cumani 's faith . |
| 26 | Whereas in scenes one and eight , Anderson strives to uphold the agreement maxim , he now makes no attempt to minimise disagreement and threatens McKendrick 's positive face by emphatically stating " No , no , don " t be ridiculous . " |
| 27 | It would be a ‘ cruel kindness ’ to uphold the county court order . |
| 28 | Prentice began to swing the schoolyard gate shut . |
| 29 | Both organisations will be allowed to canvass tenants and stage public meetings in an attempt to swing the ballot vote in their favour . |
| 30 | The formation of Free Colombia comes only 15 days after that of another anti-Escobar group , Pepes ( People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar ) , which has vowed to kill the drug baron and his family . |