Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible he had any regrets that they were neither of them free to give the undoubted chemistry between them full rein ? |
| 2 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 3 | This would leave them free to ignore the non-statutory takeover code and Stock Exchange listing rules . |
| 4 | ‘ How am I supposed to resist the inevitable ? ’ he demanded , sounding angry , and pulled at her hand , jolting her forward . |
| 5 | She preferred the hazards of local naval hospitals to leaving her husband and returning to England for each birth , but the strain of pregnancy in hot climates and the diversion of her own children made her willing to billet the older two on their aunt whenever it was convenient . |
| 6 | Even so , the unions ' power to strike and picket remained substantial ; Tebbit found himself unable to outlaw the closed shop entirely . |
| 7 | The effect of these agency principles is that a ‘ sleeping ’ partner may find himself liable to meet the financial obligations incurred to a third party by an active member of the partnership . |
| 8 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
| 9 | Can I just ask you both er are you unwilling to modify the standard follow up er cystoscopy for G three tumours and for T one tumours , or is it just for the G three T one . |
| 10 | The risk then is that the government will find itself unable to refinance the short-term part of the debt , and will have to print the money instead — and there comes hyper-inflation . |
| 11 | ‘ So even before the passing of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 the fact that the suit was brought to enforce jus publicum was not of itself sufficient to displace the ordinary rule that a defendant was entitled to the usual undertaking in damages as a condition of the grant of any interlocutory injunction against him , though the undertaking was exacted from the relator and not from the Crown on whose behalf the Attorney-General was the nominal plaintiff in the suit . |
| 12 | The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery . |
| 13 | Westerners often find such silences embarrassing and feel obliged to say something unnecessary to relieve the supposed tension . |
| 14 | Halstead Rotaract treasurer Emma Samms said : ‘ We thought we would do something different to mark the 25th anniversary of Rotaract . ’ |
| 15 | The rest of the party will therefore have to produce something exceptional to oust the well-established incumbents . |
| 16 | Countering Dada 's insistence on the mechanical incompetence of every man in the place , she stated firmly that he , Dada , was the only one fit to touch the new toy that great virginal machine louring in its magnificence in the coach-house beside the stately Bentley and broughams and phaetons of other days . |
| 17 | Just occasionally you can seize the initiative , do something unexpected to transform the whole picture . |
| 18 | In the south of France hundreds of house sales have been held up because there is no one available to process the tax-related paperwork involved . |
| 19 | " Not only are we slow to implement the European directive , we are designating the least-threatened sites first . " |
| 20 | Bridhe , treated with charming deference instead of Lady Campbell 's arrogance or Marion 's former insolence , declared herself delighted to guide the young mistress . |
| 21 | The parents were not shown all the items taken by the police ; nor were they able to oversee the systematic search of their home . |
| 22 | Familiar with his usual belligerent stance , Matthew found it strange to see the brash , self-confident businessman reduced to the kind of helplessness he was now displaying . |
| 23 | The rapidity of expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century makes it possible to treat the chemical industry , for instance , as virtually a new creation . |
| 24 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 25 | He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours . |
| 26 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 27 | The solution suggested above allows the very low synonym levels of a multi-record bucket — in this case a track — to be combined with the CKD format of individually stored records , which makes it possible to search the whole track and retrieve only the desired record . |
| 28 | The studies on which these theories are based , incidentally , have involved the use of test procedures that make it possible to assess the relative contribution of the two hemispheres to psychological performance , usually on tasks that demand the processing of linguistic information . |
| 29 | Is it possible to unscrew the retaining nuts to remove two 20-year-old basin taps , set in hard putty , without cracking the basin ? |
| 30 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |