Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That privilege aims to protect all citizens against being compelled to condemn themselves . |
| 2 | The book caused Robert Blatchford , editor of the socialist newspaper The Clarion , to write to Mr Carpenter in some concern : economic change had to come first , said Mr Blatchford , and it would therefore be better not to mention sex until after socialism had been achieved . |
| 3 | By the beginning of 1991 the number of seats held by the CIP had increased from 12 to 14 — one member of the DP having defected to the CIP , and the sole independent member having joined the CIP — thereby giving the party , in alliance with the DTP , the two-thirds majority required to enact constitutional changes . |
| 4 | Between them they commanded 120 seats in the 212-member Chamber of Representatives , but fell well short of the two-thirds majority required to approve any constitutional changes . |
| 5 | During a further feast , each cadet had to announce some details of the inner nature of his disguised nourishment . |
| 6 | The even stretch of well-employed time in that paradise begins to show irregular rents . |
| 7 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 8 | The preference for the parent-child relationship as a source of routine moral and emotional support seems to hold good for the white majority , but perhaps less so for people with different ethnic cultural backgrounds . |
| 9 | It is not merely that Parliament fails to keep old law under continuous revision ; it loses interest in its new creations as soon as they are on the statute book . |
| 10 | It appears from these general observations , and from the detailed provisions of the Act of 1986 , that Parliament intended to promote two purposes relevant to receivers appointed by debenture holders . |
| 11 | Local authorities — particularly community councils where they exist — will help to provide the administrative support needed to manage such open access . |
| 12 | The political role of the army became ever greater as the 1930s progressed , and the problems posed by population expansion , protectionism in international trade and agricultural impoverishment helped to unite much of the population behind an aggressive search for territorial expansion , Asian leadership and economic autarky . |
| 13 | While protectionism as a transnational political force appears to have little likelihood of success in the forseeable future , the threat of it is ever present as a reminder that the orderly progress of global trade in the interests of the TNCs has to be maintained and those who transgress will be punished . |
| 14 | The decision to focus mainly on Latin Europe stems from a long-held conviction by WACC-Europe members that the regional association needs to encourage more members and more communication activities in southern Europe . |
| 15 | Similarly , in the small town of Beaucaire in the South , a like-minded mayor refused to admit 40 new children of North African origin . |
| 16 | The simple hedges described in Fig.7.3 are essentially insurance operations in which profits and losses on each investment tend to offset each other to some extent . |
| 17 | Cava is the Spanish term used to describe sparkling wine made by the champagne method . |
| 18 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 19 | Membership of the National Deaf Club tended to attract those deaf people of a certain social standing , and included S. Bright Lucas ( who was the first President ) , wealthy businessman A.J. Wilson , the artist Thomas Davidson , the editor of the British Deaf Times , Joseph Hepworth , explorer and photographer Henry Newton-Lowry , and the type of activities pursued tended to reflect the membership : chess , table-cricket , tennis , badminton . |
| 20 | Each lineage had to provide suitable young men to act as " husbands " ( enangan ) in the tali-tying ceremonials of their enangar which were grand collective affairs held every ten years or so for all the immature girls of the group . |
| 21 | On its face , the literal rule seems to forbid this common sense approach to statutory interpretation . |
| 22 | Morbidity is a broad term used to describe non-mortal patterns of ill health within the population . |
| 23 | As a result , Labour thinking began to lay more stress on state control , on the need to take over at the centre and then to redistribute wealth and plan for the whole country . |
| 24 | If point loads are used , one per side , then each side tends to become hyperbolic , its acuity dependent on the elasticity of edges . |
| 25 | Each side claims to want mutual disarmament most of all , and claims , furthermore , that only the aggressiveness of the other side prevents this . |
| 26 | If either or both these facilities close , the village shop may well be left to cater for only the poor , the old and the immobile , and since the shop on its low turnover has to charge high prices , these people are doubly disadvantaged ( Harman , 1978 ) . |
| 27 | Each sortie seemed to bring some added knowledge to the art of Pathfinding although some attacks were better than others . |
| 28 | France was reported on Dec. 4 to have offered to contribute 1,500-2,000 troops to a multinational force expected to total 35,000 , and was expected to provide logistical support through its base in Djibouti . |
| 29 | The PKO bill originated from a bill introduced in 1990 which was designed to allow Japanese forces to participate as non-combatants in support of the UN-authorized multinational force assembled to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
| 30 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |