Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half of February was much more unsettled as an area of high pressure persisted in the eastern Atlantic , allowing frontal troughs to topple over its northeastern flank into Scotland . |
| 2 | But it would be folly to repeat the mistake , made with Iraq , of allowing foreign-policy merit to blot out oppression at home . |
| 3 | When overseas selling operations are only small scale and it would not make economic sense to carry out such operations oneself . |
| 4 | The purpose of making such orders is to enable public bodies to carry out their function , e.g. the building of highways , etc . |
| 5 | * The British government was also criticized at Strasbourg for allowing Scottish fishermen to cull up to 5,000 seals annually . |
| 6 | The role of adult education , in this respect , is therefore twofold : to provide leisure or recreational courses to enable unemployed people to fill in their increased ‘ leisure hours ’ with personally satisfying ( but cheap ) activities ; and to ensure that in a variety of ways unemployed people are ‘ reintegrated ’ into society , brought within the norms of the dominant culture , and protected from deviant modes of thought and behaviour . |
| 7 | By using different ways to add up the forces on each star from the infinite number of other stars in the universe , one can get different answers to the question of whether the stars can remain at constant distances from each other . |
| 8 | As mentioned earlier the current government ( 1987 ) is set to increase consumerism in education by allowing popular schools to take in as many pupils as possible without the requirement on the part of LEAs to balance intake among schools . |
| 9 | To encourage rich men to bring out poor settlers like this , a ‘ head right ’ system was used to give land -50 acres a head in the case of Virginia — to the landowner for each immigrant he had brought across the Atlantic . |
| 10 | Lower down in the division , Brentwood St Albans secured their second win of the Vauxhall season by defeating bottom-placed Harpenden to move up to within a point of second-placed Puma Welwyn City . |
| 11 | This helped European capital to hold down real wages by raising prices . |
| 12 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 13 | You want old Bombie to come back in here and give you some more of what Biff gave you today ? |
| 14 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 15 | In justifying this decision Truman depicted events in the Near East as a struggle between freedom and totalitarianism , and stated that ‘ we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way ’ . |
| 16 | This may include anticholinergic drugs to dry up secretions and prevent inhalation of saliva . |
| 17 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 18 | And when he tried transparent tricks to pull up vital business buried at the end of the list , he found himself making a number of enemies in the group . |
| 19 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 20 | TERRORISTS in Northern Ireland yesterday breached tight security to set off a bomb which injured two policemen , one seriously . |
| 21 | One of the worst effects of massive manufacturing industry was the employment of young children in the factories for up to fifteen hours a day , when the huge slump in hand-loom weaving forced parents to live off their children . |
| 22 | This is the sort of muddle which often causes good ideas to run out into the sand . |
| 23 | Dawn has been eyeing up her own customers as well as the shoppers who frequent rival stores to come up with an in-vogue verdict on local tastes . |
| 24 | The government 's policy paper contained provisions for state-aided settlement schemes to encourage black farmers to set up on 485,000 hectares of government land . |
| 25 | This means that you do not have to minimize current applications to open up another one . |
| 26 | His observations were concise and to the point : ‘ The Ministry of Agriculture wants feral minks to hang up in its pests display . |
| 27 | China has increasing weight to throw about . |
| 28 | We found hot springs to bathe in and waterfalls to admire but our first outdoors adventure was near Whangarei , where Mount Manaia rises very steeply and with spectacular jagged outcrops to about 1500 ft . |
| 29 | This will include practical help to sort out printer problems , word-processing advice , equipment compatibility and any other difficulties which staff have been experiencing . |
| 30 | The current process has insufficient privileges to start up LIFESPAN . |