Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wise precaution for them to carry conventional insulins and have a regimen organised should they be troubled by pump failure . |
| 2 | Delegates are regarded as mandated by those who elect them to support specific policies and to return to explain their subsequent decisions . |
| 3 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |
| 4 | There was , nevertheless , an element of truth in both these allegations , but Wigg was the wrong man against whom to hurl such invective and he launched a libel action . |
| 5 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 6 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 7 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 8 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 10 | The contract 's been awarded to the Heart of England Training and Enterprise Council , which says the money will enable them to train local people and help them set up and run businesses . |
| 11 | Voicetype Control For Windows sounds like it may be a deliberate attempt to make Windows users unpopular with their colleagues — it enables them to replace various keyboard and mouse commands with the spoken word . |
| 12 | This method gives children a clear idea of how groups of words relate to each other and makes it easier for them to remember new words and meanings . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps he did not trust himself to mount that stool and do what he had to do . |
| 15 | It was difficult for him to make contact with people these days , even old friends , and he could n't force himself to go next door and enquire about her . |
| 16 | Furthermore , unoperated controls should be included in every experiment as a further standard with which to compare experimental embryos and as a routine screen of the culture system . |
| 17 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 18 | Spoleto is famed for art treasures , temples and festivals , and the nearby hamlet of Poreta , is simply the ideal base from which to visit these sights and many more . |
| 19 | Measurement opens up the possibility of using mathematics in which to state general laws and theories such as the relation between the height of the column of mercury and its temperature . |
| 20 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 21 | Semi-skilled or unskilled workers usually find it harder to find a basis upon which to exercise occupational control and are more often either non-union or members of a general union which does not afford a platform to develop such control . |
| 22 | Health authorities in general can call on a wide range of hospital and other staff in the course of de-hospitalizing patients , they have enjoyed their own financial resources from which to fund such developments and they have had the lucky coincidence of a rapidly expanding private residential sector funded by the social security system . |
| 23 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 24 | Observation statements are as fallible as the theories they presuppose and therefore do not constitute a completely secure basis on which to build scientific laws and theories . |
| 25 | One of the most characteristic forms which this takes is the delusion of megalomania — a state in which the subject believes himself to possess supreme value and ultimate powers : |
| 26 | The survey also shows that because of insufficient information on non-financial and external factors , directors only have a narrow view of the business on which to base strategic planning and control . |
| 27 | The children probably appear as a source from which to develop new relationships and the immediate perception is to translate this experience into scholastic terms . |
| 28 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 29 | The persuasive power of the Francoist propaganda machine was great , particularly in the absence of alternative , uncontrolled sources of inform- ation with which to contrast official messages and put them into perspective . |
| 30 | He takes himself to have true premises and a valid inference to a true conclusion ; the premises might include the proposition that in the past he has made mistakes . |