Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support . |
| 2 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 3 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |
| 4 | Oh , and finally , might it be an idea for a political writer to do the interview ? |
| 5 | Recognising that consent must be based on a true appreciation of contents , this proposal reveals a strange inability to grasp the extent to which a work of art can rarely if ever be described or paraphrased with perfect accuracy . |
| 6 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 7 | Telford is also seeking European funding to investigate the application of new technology in the delivery of modules in English as a Foreign Language . |
| 8 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 9 | Also included in the packing are a multi-way cable to link the tablet to the Spectrum 's edge connector , a cassette containing the software , a keyboard overlay and a wad of A5 sized photocopied paper that claims to be a manual . |
| 10 | Erm so think about if you 've got a non-working partner or somebody on a low income to spread the money er so that you , has anybody already done this er you know prior to retirement ? |
| 11 | There is absolutely no incentive for the second person on a low income to sign the application form because he is not liable to pay the tax . |
| 12 | That having taken this momentous decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we have taken a step of the most important step towards economic monetary union from which there can be no turning back . |
| 13 | Just concentrate on watching out for the right opportunity to broach the subject of Janice , she reminded herself . |
| 14 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
| 15 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 16 | In the combined Congress , the PRI thus had the necessary two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution . |
| 17 | It was widely believed that the DLP would use its two-thirds majority to alter the constitution prior to the 1992 elections . |
| 18 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 19 | It was very painstaking , eye-straining work , with all the extra plotting and without the alleviation of trotting outside each hour to scan the horizon and study the sky . |
| 20 | A measure of the relief from intractable heartburn and regurgitation was the patients ' expressed willingness to repeat the operation given circumstances similar to those before the first fundoplication . |
| 21 | In a telling demonstration of the current rift in Solidarity [ see pp. 37546 ; 37620-21 ] , the union 's national commission voted on Sept. 5 by a narrow majority to ban the use of the Solidarity logo on the masthead of Gazeta Wyborcza , the Solidarity newspaper created in the run-up to the 1989 parliamentary elections [ see p. 36724 ] . |
| 22 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 23 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 24 | that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . |
| 25 | To establish his innocence , he must prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of an offence . |
| 26 | However , the defendant may be able to escape liability if he can prove that he took all due diligence to avoid the commission of an offence ( s12 of CPA 1987 ) . |
| 27 | Indeed , when the Sinhalese were short of a king in the 18th century , they drafted in a Tamil prince to start the dynasty that survived until the British moved in . |
| 28 | Fatal signs of weakness in American women 's fiction , these earnest references to ‘ cheerful support ’ , ‘ gracefulness and skill ’ , ‘ sensitive criticism ’ and ‘ inspiring example ’ are no doubt useful as emotional blackmail to inveigle the reader into the moist sisterhood of approval . |
| 29 | The fair performance of the German currency appeared to discount the difficulties which many traders envisaged in the wake of German unification and , more specifically , of the controversial decision to unite the East and West German marks at par value , a move which was to weaken confidence in the mark in early 1991 . |
| 30 | Afterwards , when they were alone , Marshall said : ‘ If that was an accurate account , one person had ample opportunity to take the knife off the bar and we already know he was at Linley 's party . ’ |