Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A panel of experts , appointed by the Council of Europe last November to advise the Community , found that some European states have yet to develop rules on recourse to DNA analysis in forensic work — a shortcoming they set as the first priority . |
| 2 | Tony Clipson , Housing Initiatives London 's regional manager says : ‘ This development is an excellent example of the public and private sectors working together to supply vital social housing in the area . |
| 3 | But the major political parties have yet to get the real message , namely that the people know full well that someone , somehow , is going to have to pay for German unification . |
| 4 | A Hoxha monument was also attacked on Feb. 20 by protesters in the port of Durrës , which 11 days earlier had been the scene of rioting by would-be emigrants trying illegally to board a ferry for Italy . |
| 5 | In trying to provide answers to the questions why have social policies failed significantly to reduce social class inequalities , it is best to look at each of the three steps in the process separately — access , use and outcome . |
| 6 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 7 | It 's small enough to carry on the hill , but the historical introductions get together to give a good potted history of the Golden Age of Alpinism . |
| 8 | The proposal was blocked when some deputies stayed away to prevent a quorum . |
| 9 | After many years when some ensembles seemed hesitant to apply them to appropriate passages of slow and moderate conjunct movement , thus depriving such movements of the vitality their composers surely intended , some performers seem now to apply inequality at all tempos , including the recklessly fast . |
| 10 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 11 | Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent . |
| 12 | Many valuable training experiences can be arranged within a single school or agency , or by a group of teachers from different schools meeting regularly to carry out an agreed task . |
| 13 | 1.4 We should now immediately take account of the fact that few words serve solely to identify entities that a speaker wishes to mention . |
| 14 | But now a new pattern emerged as the red and brown shapes blocked together to form overlapping triangles all pointing across the room at the double doors opposite . |
| 15 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 16 | One problem the French planners have still to solve is the role of female graduates , some of whom have requested to take part in the new scheme . |
| 17 | Furthermore , mutinies and desertions in the forces led to soldiers of the different nationalities returning home to offer their armed support for national administrations . |
| 18 | In the following pages , some companies brave enough to make these claims tell you how they back them up . |
| 19 | Looks like most British retailers have yet to clean up their act . |
| 20 | It may be this kind of experience that led some Minoans to submit willingly to sacrifice . |
| 21 | Public buildings came increasingly to reflect the size and spectacle of it all . |
| 22 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
| 23 | The edible crab , Cancer pagurus , is undoubtedly stronger and well able to cope with larger Nucella , but the adults live offshore so that intertidal dog-whelks have only to contend with juveniles . |
| 24 | The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book . |
| 25 | American insurers already reckon there is a $40bn ( about £26bn ) market for foreign investors brave enough to risk their capital in the old Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Use has thus evolved on a pragmatic basis : casual observation by the author showed that vehicles rarely crossed the junction at more than 15 km/h ; that they gave way to walkers and cyclists in nearly every case ( Figure 6.15 ) and indeed that some pedestrians failed even to bother to look for traffic before crossing . |
| 27 | Some writers appear still to feel that the criterion remains one of recognition by the government of this country , the difference being that , whereas before 1980 the government would say expressly whether it recognised the foreign government , now it is to be left to be ascertained as a matter of inference : see Professor J. Crawford ‘ Decisions of British Courts during 1985–86 involving questions of Public or Private International Law ’ ( 1986 ) 57 B.Y . |
| 28 | Even now the many and various suppliers of loam-based composts have still to discover how to get their products to customers in a state that is fit to use . |
| 29 | Some undergraduates seek simply to broaden their horizons and develop analytical skills ; others wish to acquire a more specialised knowledge to be used in a subsequent career . |
| 30 | There were , in addition , further arguments put forward to support and justify the policy of nationalisation and public ownership . |