Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany was constitutionally permitted only to send troops in defence of NATO territory , although following the December 1990 all-German election Chancellor Helmut Kohl had conceded that this rule would have to be changed . |
| 2 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 3 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
| 4 | The police are thus empowered arbitrarily to limit numbers and to form cordons to allow lorries and workers through to work . |
| 5 | If the expert is obliged by earlier agreement to give reasons , then he must do so : if he has not agreed beforehand to give reasons , he can not be compelled to do so : see 13.7.8 . |
| 6 | On March 19 the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) appealed for action to " avert a major nutritional crisis " , warning of possible starvation in Iraq if measures were not taken quickly to distribute foodstuffs . |
| 7 | The account executive will , usually , take the chair in meetings at the agency , and will be responsible for producing the minutes of every meeting — these may be called ‘ call reports ’ or ‘ contact reports ’ , and are usually designed solely to record decisions and list action to be performed by either the agency or the client . |
| 8 | As most such requests are refused , when they are set up they are usually convened only to discuss matters of specific interest , such as the textile industry or the state of the French language . |
| 9 | The authors — one of whom , Desiree Moorhead , was his young widow — based their research on Hayter 's own logbooks , but also travelled extensively to study proofs and plates . |
| 10 | His majestic iron play gave him birdies at the short second and sixth and in between his putter also worked admirably to acquire birdies at the fourth and long fifth . |
| 11 | Whereas the intellectual , ‘ mathematical ’ polyphony of the Middle Ages had , as John XXII complained , treated sacred texts as mere subjects for music , music was now often composed expressly to project words especially secular ones . |
| 12 | The confusion of private and personal property as the subject of criticism has led most people , who for good reason wish to defend property with which they are intimately associated also to defend institutions which may result in their alienation from such property . |
| 13 | One would be hard put also to find grounds for the attribution of the beliefs thus expressible to creatures that might be thought to have but not express them : |
| 14 | This list 's provenance should be carefully noted , since it comes from a retail bookseller , and is therefore intended primarily to sell books . |
| 15 | Martin Orne takes the view that hypnosis may be safely used simply to gain clues for further investigation , in cases where the police are completely in the dark . |
| 16 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |