Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other services — like the police and fire brigade — do not make administrative sense in smaller areas . |
| 2 | Maybe other industrialised Nations will affect European trade in the future , as the Japanese have over the last 10 years . |
| 3 | Should an apparent truce in Bosnia lead to the sending of substantial peacekeeping forces , the subsequent breakdown of such an agreement would trigger acute pressures for sending sufficient troops to achieve peacemaking ( ‘ smothering the war by force ’ ) . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that it is in the discount market that the authorities conduct those operations which they hope will influence monetary conditions in the economy . |
| 5 | Because every individual is different XYZ Foods do not make specific claims about the amount of weight loss to expect , but most people will lose three pounds or more . |
| 6 | Where the English language does make specific references to the female , it often has derogatory implications . |
| 7 | It does not make specific demands of the growing medium , and will even grow on just fine gravel . |
| 8 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 9 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 10 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 11 | The revised perambulations did , however , make extensive concessions in Derbyshire , Northamptonshire and Wiltshire ; the hundred of Tendring in Essex was disafforested , as was the whole of Sussex with the exception of two demesne woods — the ‘ broils of Chichester ’ and ‘ Falconer 's Wood ’ . |
| 12 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 13 | The repository would make extensive use of cement and concrete as ‘ engineered ’ barriers . |
| 14 | The objective of the course provision is to produce office professionals who can make extensive use of technology but who are able to accept responsibility and operate heuristically as well as technically within organisational systems . |
| 15 | Patten also announced that he would make extensive use of enhanced capping powers in 1991 . |
| 16 | It was anticipated , however , that at least during the first stage Gorbachev would make extensive use of emergency powers , granted to him in September , to introduce reforms by presidential decree . |
| 17 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 18 | The ‘ new ’ auditor/adviser can not make professional enquiry in such circumstances as there is no one to contact . |
| 19 | ‘ We do not want economic war with Russia , ’ Mr Otsason stresses . |
| 20 | We really ca n't answer technical questions like that ’ . |
| 21 | The treaty , cc-ordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , will make strange bedfellows of a number of enemies . |
| 22 | By publicly opposing the recourse to a notorious Vichyite , he could also crystallize pro-Gaullist feeling within the French Resistance . |
| 23 | In addition , CAB advisers are proud to be a ‘ one-stop ’ service and there is a fear that a receptionist may make unnecessary referrals in order to relieve queues and so reduce bureaux to the signposting agencies they were once considered to be . |
| 24 | Taiwan will grant political asylum to 12 Chinese dissidents who went to South Korea fearing persecution for involvement in the pro-democracy movement in China , an official of the Exit and Entry Bureau said yesterday . |
| 25 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 26 | The functional division of policy-making responsibilities among different central government departments and agencies means that public enterprises may experience political pressures from several distinct authority sources within the state . |
| 27 | For those of us lucky enough to be able to read and play music , it certainly can be , fore the mind can then override textual aberrations of this kind ( providing they are not too excessive ) . |
| 28 | Where do we locate political behaviour in what is at least for the moment a mass democracy ? |
| 29 | You may want emotional support at any stage of HIV infection , and it will be important for you to find someone you trust who will give the support you need . |
| 30 | Picture frames can make striking displays on occasional tables , window sills or other low-level areas . |