Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supreme Court on June 6 ruled unconstitutional the government 's emergency legislation banning independent labour tribunals from awarding inflationary wage increases . |
| 2 | This had been badly damaged when on Oct. 3 the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the government 's proposals , based on the main plank of Smallholders ' policy , to return to their original owners lands confiscated by the state after the communists had taken power in 1947 . |
| 3 | Such knowledge , of course , renders superfluous the priest 's role as interpreter , as intermediary between God and man . |
| 4 | ‘ I think we 've concluded our business , ’ she told him crisply as she snatched open the driver 's door and climbed into the sun-warmed interior . |
| 5 | The ‘ key informant ’ will often be the same individual as made possible the researcher 's access to the group , and may become almost a partner in the research . |
| 6 | A Foreign Office spokesman said : ‘ Ministers have repeatedly made clear the Government 's position on PR and there are no plans to change it . ’ |
| 7 | To buy a brand new PA system costs a lot of money for a single person , and as a group it is a huge risk as we are still at school ( lower 6th ) and do not wish to spend that sort of money when we can not guarantee we will still be together in a week , let alone a year 's time . |
| 8 | I just wondered what the Queen would say , let alone the duchess 's husband . ’ |
| 9 | Michael Holly was back inside Hut 2 a clear hour before the trustie slammed shut the hut 's door , switched off the lights . |
| 10 | The longer the period of detention the greater is the need for creating in the prison conditions which will keep alive the prisoner 's mental interests and social instincts . |
| 11 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 12 | And he has some other advice , particularly for anyone travelling to third world countries — never drink local water , use bottled water instead and make sure the bottle 's seal is intact . |
| 13 | Tell him anything you like , but make sure the apartment 's clean . ’ |
| 14 | Check it carefully and make sure the seller 's name and address is the same as that shown on the document . |
| 15 | Two teams of computer specialists are now at work , one to try and make sure the department 's existing system can cope , the second to have a new computer system at work from 1 January next year . |
| 16 | On Sept. 23 , repeating his position that the annexation of Kuwait was irreversible ( plans for a census there were announced on Sept. 28 ) , Saddam stated that the only basis for a peace initiative was the inclusion of Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories , and threatened to destroy Israel and set ablaze the region 's oil supplies as part of " Iraq 's strategic plan " if the Iraqi people were " strangled " or subjected to attack . |
| 17 | It can lay bare the climber 's weaknesses and strengths . |
| 18 | Vasili reluctantly switched off the engine and the unarmed man stepped forward and pulled open the driver 's door . |
| 19 | She prised open the body 's right fist , and there , charred at the edge , was all that remained of the nightgown . |
| 20 | Leaders have followers : people who recognise and find attractive the leaders ' sense of purpose . |
| 21 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 22 | Finally , it should be noted that s.14 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 , restating a rule first contained in the 1958 Act , provides that no provision in legislation prior to 1958 should be taken as ousting the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court , thus making clear the Government 's intention that all statutory tribunals should be subject to this jurisdiction regardless of whether other remedies are provided . |
| 23 | An action plan — making clear the Government 's commitments and targets , both those established under White Papers and new decisions — action by other sectors also vital . |
| 24 | An action plan — making clear the Government 's commitments and targets , both those established under White Papers and new decisions — action by other sectors also vital . |
| 25 | If markets fail to allocate resources efficiently because of the existence of externalities , then the first prerequisite for efficient government intervention is making good the market 's informational failures . |
| 26 | Magee tore open the driver 's door , grabbing the man by the shoulder , hauling him from the cab . |
| 27 | The North rejected Roh 's announcement as " insignificant " as it left unchanged the South 's protection under the US nuclear umbrella [ see p. 38530 ] . |
| 28 | MR JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the applicant was in effect asking the court to declare unlawful the FPC 's use of paragraph 19 provisions in order to put in place a policy for limiting the use of deputising services , save where the power to limit was used for the purpose of keeping the deputising services going properly . |
| 29 | Unless detected at an early stage weight loss is an inevitable result of pancreatic insufficiency , but before this becomes apparent the dog 's appetite will have increased , simply because it is not absorbing enough nutrients . |
| 30 | During the attack they shot dead the depot 's owner and his sister , wounded a child and abducted the dead woman 's husband . |