Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A letter written to Bush in early October by a group of 53 US senators , urging him to suspend economic assistance until the restoration of representative government in Pakistan , led an official Pakistani government spokesman on Oct. 22 to describe the senators as " a group opposed to the national interests of Pakistan " . |
| 2 | There was nothing to check in the front parlour ; hardly anything to say goodbye to , for the room was empty of furniture and must remain that way until the shops would once again have chairs and sofas and rugs and curtains to sell . |
| 3 | Industrial Tribunals may make that decision but the Islington Council certainly is n't going to . |
| 4 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 5 | Witness summonses ( N 20 ) may issue to compel oral evidence or the production of documents . |
| 6 | The two ministries together coordinate underwater exploration and the policing of excavations . |
| 7 | ‘ where it is shown to the satisfaction of a rating authority that any amount paid in respect of rates , and not recoverable apart from this section , could properly be refunded on the ground that … ( e ) the person who made a payment in respect of rates was not liable to make that payment , the rating authority may refund that amount or a part thereof . |
| 8 | The Labour governments of 1964 and 1966 expanded the scope of regional policy , both as regards the areas covered , the number of programmes designed to promote regional policy and the administrative machinery needed to implement it . |
| 9 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 10 | The round black seed germinated that autumn and the following spring the plants developed long , woody tubers . |
| 11 | Who is this strategy not fair and reasonable , reflecting political maturity and a finer sense of the political art than other communities have managed to achieve ? |
| 12 | The British Oxygen Company ( BOC ) has recently conducted trials using liquid nitrogen and a specially developed vacuum cleaner to kill house dust mites in carpets . |
| 13 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 14 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 15 | So , on the one hand , hope that reason and deference should prevail ; on the other hand , fear that ignorance and the politics of class and class conflict would actually prevail . |
| 16 | Following the closure of the line in 1964 , the building became private property while the track and platform disappeared . |
| 17 | It is a marriage of convenience between workers in many fields — archaeologists , geographers , geologists , botanists and zoologists — who do not want the barriers of 19th century subject divisions to stand in the way of understanding the way in which the human environment has evolved , the human role in shaping that environment and the ways in which humans gained a living from it . |
| 18 | Using that heading and the eleven listed words , you could then create the thought-flow chart on the following page . |
| 19 | The Minister has few suggestions on how to combat that problem and the Government have cut the number of customs officers by 400 . |
| 20 | Lawrence and Lorsch , ( 1967 ) for example , showed how in private manufacturing firms the marketing divisions had a material interest in the maximization of sales , while research and development sought technical innovation and the production departments sought to control costs . |
| 21 | There is no doubting that unemployment and the economic depression dominated the politics of the inter-war years . |
| 22 | This will not prevent an equitable interest passing to the buyer but the court will not grant specific performance unless the seller 's lien can be fully protected and until paid in full he is entitled to vote the shares as he thinks will best protect his interest . |
| 23 | We gain that impression because the work the USSR reports can be up to 30 years old at its first publication . |
| 24 | I stress that point because the fashionable view of some London-based political commentators is that regional government has become popular among Labour party members in England only as a response to the position in Scotland . |
| 25 | They may be intent on impressing each other or the chairman or involved in little power games to prove who is the real leader of the group . |
| 26 | He could be working something out , but he may just be enjoying emotional relaxation and a purely sensory level of play . |
| 27 | Erm the fourth advantage I would say is that it focuses on the balance between the need to promote rural enterprise and the need to protect the countryside . |
| 28 | The plaintiffs had said that they were not going to perform that contract unless the defendants entered into the contract with them which was in issue . |
| 29 | The need to monitor that experiment and the conviction that the court would benefit from improved lines of communication between it and those who used the court , either as practitioners or as litigants , had led to the establishment of a Court of Appeal Users ' Committee , representative of both , which would have its first meeting later this month . |
| 30 | Besides , sometimes a person 's consent to a right or benefit is required for him to acquire that right or a benefit . |