Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Lordships abstain from detailed discussions of these questions , in so far as they were developed in argument , for that would lead the Board to fall into precisely the errors against which Griffiths L.J . |
| 2 | Still searching for perfection , she has no plans to retire for quite a while yet , when will she quit ? |
| 3 | The national debate concerning Canada 's constitutional future — particularly Quebec 's role within it — which had been under way since the collapse in June 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord [ see pp. 37519-20 ] , continued in June but showed some evidence of a greater willingness to compromise by both the separatist French minority and the English-speaking majority . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in his final years before retirement , Pepler contributed to procedures , bringing his experience to bear for over a quarter of a century on government departments and officials in them , and between local and central government . |
| 5 | THE King 's Theatre in Edinburgh is undergoing a wide-ranging review to cope with both the recession and future competition from the capital 's new £13 million Festival Theatre . |
| 6 | The RAF 's Board of Inquiry may take months to report on why the Hercules on a routine flight from RAF Lyneham crashed in Scotland . |
| 7 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 8 | But they decided to establish a study committee in Brussels to look at both a common market and the possibilities for ‘ sector ’ co-operation . |
| 9 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 10 | Hellige and Longstreth ( 1981 ) asked subjects to tap with either the left or right index finger . |
| 11 | A Portsmouth ballvalve has retaining caps to hold in both the piston and , usually , the washer inside the piston |
| 12 | With their characteristic and pervasive atmosphere of sexuality and sensuality and their erotic tales presented or disguised within verbal play , it is hardly surprising that many have considered " pornography " to be an appropriate term to describe at least a good part of what is found in these fabliaux . |
| 13 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 14 | . Thus in the Cobb Douglas case , with and , a 50 per cent tax causes the net return to fall by only a quarter . |
| 15 | He was the first bowler to compete in both the Under-25 and Open Singles semi-finals at the British Isles Indoor Championship . |
| 16 | This is the shortest par-three but is guarded by enough sand to build at least a four-bedroom castle . |
| 17 | The Church praises the courage of a small number of press , radio and TV journalists who are risking their lives to maintain at least a few channels of information which are not controlled by the government . |
| 18 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 19 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 20 | Each information officer will have a mix of new writing and rewriting , both short items and long items , as well as special research projects to look at how the information system is used in bureaux . |
| 21 | In January , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister convened a meeting of the Security Council at Heads of Government level , which called on the Secretary-General to report on how the peacekeeping role of the United Nations could be strengthened . |
| 22 | The recommendations are contained in section five and five one C effectively impress the assistance of Policy Committee in addressing the need to sustain at least the current level of spending of three point nine million on these small but vital schemes throughout the period of the medium term plan . |
| 23 | This is not the place to elaborate upon why the educational system we have inherited can be described as men 's education or why , even in areas like adult and community education in which women outnumber men as students , and are employed in considerable numbers as part-time tutors and volunteers , the structures in which we operate are so effectively well grounded in male power and male values as to appear inevitable . |
| 24 | Quantum mechanics therefore allows a particle to escape from inside a black hole , something that is not allowed in classical mechanics . |
| 25 | The need to control for both the individual and areal characteristics is demonstrated by table 6.1 taken from Garner ( 1988 ) . |
| 26 | This fact , coupled to our urgent need to export at least a third of our gross national product , simply to maintain ourselves , points to an obvious answer to our problems , for service industries and export together , suggests leisure and tourism . |
| 27 | Churchill gave Attlee one last boost when they were both back in London and the election results — postponed for three weeks owing to the need to bring from abroad the postal votes of the forces serving overseas — were at last declared . |
| 28 | But even here the student has some background of experience to draw upon since every essay written is , to some extent , a research project . |
| 29 | You have three minutes to descend to below the ceiling before the Solution goes into error mode . |
| 30 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |