Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective .
2 It should also be appreciated that activity between market participants is used by the Bank of England , directly and indirectly to implement monetary policy via interest rate changes .
3 The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital .
4 Under the first three Edwards when the government was located in York in order to conduct the war against the Scots — or to evade political constraints at Westminster — the archbishop of York 's household became an important source of royal clerks , especially during Melton 's tenure of the see ( 1316–40 ) ; these Yorkshire clerks dominated the chancery of Edward II and were also influential in the exchequer and wardrobe .
5 The FFPS is involved in schemes to promote small-scale propagation by communities currently paid by wholesalers to collect wild plants .
6 If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 .
7 It is therefore usual for the offer letter to contain a clause permitting the investor , its accountants and other professional advisers to conduct due diligence in relation to the target business .
8 All the players gave this exhibition free of charge and , with the resulting revenue , the trust was able to set up a fund with which to promote junior golf on Jersey .
9 According to a spokesman , " the orders regarding the opening of fire were clarified and broadened to enable Israeli soldiers to properly react in cases of danger to life " .
10 So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities .
11 The morning after the general 's briefing , Iraq brought its latent air capability out of hiding , and tried to hit allied warships in the Gulf .
12 Politically , relations remained tense for much of this middle period , sufficiently so to affect economic links between England and France , and England was allied with the semi-independent feudatories of the French Crown , Burgundy and Brittany , on a number of occasions until they were absorbed into the lands of the Valois dynasty in 1477 and 1492 respectively .
13 Activated carbon tends to be used to treat low concentrations of highly odorous compounds or large concentrations of lesser odorous compounds which may or may not be toxic .
14 And , if you treat this toxin with something like formaldehyde or ethanol , you end up by inactivating it 's toxic properties and you end up with what , what we call a toxoid , something that retains immunological properties , it 's able to stimulate specific immunity to the toxin but it does n't have any of the toxic effects and we end up with this toxoid vaccine against diphtheria .
15 As a result , it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision .
16 The volume of each of the perfusate samples collected over the course of the experiment was measured , to confirm complete collection without leakage from the circuit , and was then divided for assay of acid , pepsin , and histamine by the following methods :
17 It seems to me that for those , like myself , who want to include divine revelation with science in their total picture about the origin of life , the thought that it could have originated in one that supports their belief that God had a hand in these matters .
18 My hon. Friend spoke earlier of his desire to see armed intervention in Yugoslavia on behalf of the Pope .
19 The government remained reluctant to implement political reforms along the lines suggested by Soviet President Gorbachev , however , preferring to maintain its traditional Marxist-Leninist model of development .
20 He said it was disappointing that the Government had not made clear that it will be prepared to stimulate monetary growth by underfunding the Budget deficit .
21 Furthermore , the shareholders as the principal were entitled to issue specific instructions to the directors which as agents they were obliged to implement .
22 All that remained was to issue specific orders for action to Kirov in Russia and Phil Andersen in Turkey .
23 It is possible to climb the circular stairs to enjoy far-reaching views from the towers and battlements .
24 He said that the PLO would call on all Arab states to implement economic sanctions against the USA .
25 A motion declaring its moves to implement economic reform to be " unsatisfactory " was passed by 134 votes to 19 , with five abstentions .
26 Fanning the eggs with her fins helps to circulate aerated water over the eggs and also waft away anything that may have settled on them .
27 In the main , however , most people welcomed the proposals , among the most heartening of which was one to allow developers to invest private capital in hospital closure programmes in order to enable the right kinds of alternative accommodation to be developed .
28 More importantly , Soviet diplomats have by and large restrained from trying to cultivate political ties with groups considered unacceptable to the government in question and , when accused of doing so , have apologised and made every effort to smooth over the situation , in dramatic contrast to the vehement denials and abusive tirades which any such allegation elicited in the 1930s .
29 It aimed to promote regional co-operation in the areas of tourism , energy , environment , transport , sport and culture ; after a meeting in early July 1991 it also called on national governments to recognize the independence of Croatia and Slovenia .
30 It took eight days to restore normal service in the area .
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