Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That privilege aims to protect all citizens against being compelled to condemn themselves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During a further feast , each cadet had to announce some details of the inner nature of his disguised nourishment . |
| 4 | Local authorities — particularly community councils where they exist — will help to provide the administrative support needed to manage such open access . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But ultimately the ordinary allied soldier had to find some reward for his exertions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On its face , the literal rule seems to forbid this common sense approach to statutory interpretation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Each sortie seemed to bring some added knowledge to the art of Pathfinding although some attacks were better than others . |
| 14 | In reality , neither side expected to deploy more than about 100 bombers . |
| 15 | This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK . |
| 16 | The German scientist appeared to consider this carefully . |
| 17 | Many worked a complete 12 hour shift to satisfy all the visitors and customers . |
| 18 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 19 | And I think that the , just giving the example of Ross Macdonald , that this other kind of popular literature manages to avoid that . |
| 20 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 21 | English Heritage helps to preserve this legacy and welcomes you to visit as many as possible of the 350 or more properties and sites in its care . |
| 22 | Following the advice , the British runner tried to make all the running . |
| 23 | In Hungarian PEN we have an uphill struggle to try to promote those Hungarian writers who are worth promoting , but so many of them travel badly in translation . |
| 24 | This study proposes to settle such questions empirically . |
| 25 | 2.00:LAST year 's winner Another Coral bids to emulate Half Free , who won back-to-back Mackesons in the mid-eighties . |
| 26 | This research seeks to fill this important gap . |
| 27 | This research aims to do that and , whilst it will not ‘ value ’ the benefits , these will be itemised and related to those costs and perhaps cheaper ways of producing similar benefits found . |
| 28 | Charges were never pressed and the image of Scottish football lived to die another day . |
| 29 | This chapter seeks to explore some of the implications of drama as a popular form , distinguished in terms of its place and material existence from other literary writing within the English Renaissance . |
| 30 | This chapter seeks to explore these matters in some depth , for they are critical to the understanding of elderly people . |