Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they helped persuade the British to follow a policy which kept them out of almost all the continental wars of the next quarter-century . |
| 2 | Teesside Polytechnic BA student Jonathan Welfare has invented an easy to use cardboard poop scoop which might be used by Middlesbrough council dog wardens . |
| 3 | The conversion of low income dwellings into owner occupied properties or high rent luxury accommodation has forced the poor to consume less housing space , often within the same borough and homelessness and council waiting lists are increasing — in part a consequence of rehabilitation . |
| 4 | It has been the growth in tax allowances that has allowed the rich to hide behind a smokescreen of high marginal tax rates , while , in reality paying an average rate far below that of many ordinary households ( see the answer given to Gordon Brown MP above , in ‘ Tax Benefits ’ , p. 99 ) . |
| 5 | And please , if you come up to the door and the times of opening says closed on there , we 're not closed , it 's just sometimes we 've forgotten to change the closed to open . |
| 6 | Transnational corporate corruption is therefore perhaps the most pernicious form of crime in the world today because it involves robbing the poor to feed the rich , and brings into political power rulers and administrators who in general will put self-interest ahead of the public interest , and transnational corporation interest ahead of national interest . ’ |
| 7 | In general terms , then , corporate crime involves robbing the poor to benefit the rich . |
| 8 | On the other he argued that it was " basically unhealthy " for the United States to continue to press the British to live beyond their means . |
| 9 | Although it is currently the practice of Customs to allow the vendor to deduct input tax attributable to a TOGC ( which is an " outside-the-scope " supply ) , it appears this practice might be changing in view of changes to s15(2) VAT Act 1983 and Reg 32 of the VAT ( General ) Regulations 1985 ; the changes are intended to put the right to deduct input tax in respect of certain outside-the-scope supplies onto a statutory footing . |
| 10 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 11 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 12 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |
| 13 | But he could give the new boy his debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , when United take on Benfica in a testimonial for Eusebio that also marks 25 years since United beat the Portuguese to win England 's first European Cup . |
| 14 | It is high time a border poll was taken with all citizens of voting age here asked ( a ) their religion and ( b ) whether they want a united Ireland or not , to find out just how many Catholics really do want the British to leave . |
| 15 | Under ERM strong currency nations were forced to help the weak to re-establish the equilibrium of the system , although large-scale fluctuations could lead to an alteration of the ‘ central rate ’ . |
| 16 | What price are we going to have to pay the French to get this through , really do n't know and I wonder if the minister could say , what exactly does do the French actually want before they agree to this ? |
| 17 | Marcellus ' defence was that he had taught the ignorant to respect and wonder at the beautiful and marvellous works of Greece ( Marc . 21 ) . |
| 18 | resources should be allocated to the subordinate to enable him to carry out his tasks at the expected level of performance , and authority should be delegated to enable the subordinate to do this job ; and |
| 19 | Hardly anyone had expected the Japanese to surrender quite so quickly and , when they did and for the moment , as far as the Allies were concerned , hardly anything happened . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you 've got a right to know . |
| 21 | ‘ Well it 's deeply wonderful of you to offer this as a convalescent home — but you 've got no right to do it without consulting me and Sue . |
| 22 | You 've got no right to order me around . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got no right to come bursting in here like this , ’ Scott snarled . |
| 24 | We 've got the French to thank for the explosion of patterned underthings in the 1980s . |
| 25 | ( Subscribers to the ‘ cock-up ’ theory of history will be interested to learn that the framers of the American constitution were much impressed by Montesquieu 's idea that it was the separation of powers in Britain that had enabled the British to maintain their freedom from tyranny . |
| 26 | The imminence of war had compelled the Dutch to close the border , which meant that the train would be stuck in Germany . |
| 27 | We can conjecture that some of the slaves had bought themselves to serfdom ; that penury had compelled the free to sell their freedom for bread . |
| 28 | It is true that the taste for the Picturesque which had developed at the end of the eighteenth century had led the educated to take a visual pleasure in the exteriors of vernacular buildings ( Jane Austen pokes fun at the taste on more than one occasion ) . |
| 29 | He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them . |
| 30 | Already the enemies were smugglers , the English , free traders , and governments that wished to tax the industrious to support sterile bureaucrats and pensioners . |