Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 2 | ‘ We have here not a few whose high office would make them suitable for the position , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Britain 's main clearing banks are reviewing their lending policies in the light of a draft EC directive which would make them liable for the clean-up costs of their industrial clients , should the latter go into liquidation . |
| 4 | The Moghul tombs , the Red Fort , the towering minarets of the Jami Masjid , made me aware for the first time of the significance of civilization , and the meaning of history . |
| 5 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 6 | As far as the debtor 's obligations are concerned , he must retain possession of the goods and make them available for the creditor to collect , taking reasonable care of them in the meantime ( s72(4) ) . |
| 7 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 8 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 9 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 10 | The CD and cassette versions of the single contained five tracks and Gallup deemed them ineligible for the singles charts . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't considered you ready for the council yet , ’ said Frick , when Schiller had finished . |
| 12 | The letter , from Oxfordshire County Council 's engineering department , said : ’ I understand you are the owner of the vehicle involved and therefore must inform you that the council holds you responsible for the costs of repairs arising from this incident . ’ |
| 13 | She found him alone for a moment . |
| 14 | Each evening I reported to Anne , keeping it light for the most part . |
| 15 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 16 | 2.14 The Landlord shall procure that the obligations of the contractor under clause of the Building Contract are complied with within the period applicable but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 [ of this agreement and in clause [ s ] of the Lease ] the Landlord shall with effect from the Certificate Date be under no liability to the Tenant in respect of any failure to carry out the Works in accordance with clauses 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 ( save as regards matters specified in any Defects Notice which were not remedied to the Surveyor 's [ reasonable ] satisfaction ) The part of this clause commencing … but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 … to the end of the clause should be deleted , as a tenant may consider it unreasonable for a landlord to exempt itself from liability in this manner . |
| 17 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 18 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 19 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 20 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 21 | He was standing in the far corner , talking to some men , and she was able to view him unobserved for a few moments . |
| 22 | The effect of such an agreement between a creditor and a third party with regard to the debt is to render it impossible for the creditor afterwards to sue the debtor for it . |
| 23 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 24 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 25 | As had happened previously , the fines were paid anonymously but the magistrates had made it impossible for an outsider to defuse the situation on this occasion by also binding them over to keep the peace . |
| 26 | The technical advances of recent years have made it possible for a particularly skilled artist , such as Matt Yuricich , working for instance on the final rooftop confrontation between Deckard ( Harrison Ford ) and Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer ) in Blade Runner , to reduce the number of generations of film going into the composite ( ie action + backgrounds ) by imitating the colours of film rather than of nature ( or , in this case , of the concrete jungle ) . |
| 27 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 28 | The contracting system to which my hon. Friend referred has made it possible for the health authority to provide extra capacity for the specialty at Exeter hospital which will ensure that the waiting list can be worked off much more quickly than would otherwise be possible . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that the further substantial increase in the NHS 's capital budget in the next financial year has made it possible for the health authority and the Ministry of Defence to come to an agreement on that issue . |
| 30 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |