Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances , it is possible to include the guarantor 's covenants in a schedule . |
| 2 | In short , New York is stuck with a tax base that looks too narrow to support the city 's budget in anything like its present form . |
| 3 | In the event the Court of Appeal came to the conclusion that it was not possible to support the judge 's findings based on the absence of agency but equally were unable , on the judge 's findings , to come to a conclusion on the issue of undue influence . |
| 4 | If the Government decide to run down the nuclear industry , apart from the loss of 120,000 jobs in the north-west , in the area that I represent , would it be possible to meet the Government 's target for reduced carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , let alone by the year 2000 , under the Labour party 's policy ? |
| 5 | It should be possible to relate the reader 's personality traits to the kind of response the reader will make to a particular story or information book . |
| 6 | Back on vinyl following a two-year bout of writer 's block , he 's surprised and depressed to find the media 's image of him as rock 's Mr Glum has survived , in spite of the exhilarating content of the new LP , These Immortal Souls ' ‘ I 'm Never Gon na Die Again' . |
| 7 | It would have been interesting to see the teachers ' reactions to questions about profits from burglary or tax evasion rather than investment . |
| 8 | I asked him if he would be prepared to support the Government 's privatisation proposals , and he said : ’ I should be happy to do so , provided that the general public can apply for shares . ’ |
| 9 | They did this to spare the city 's civilians from artillery barrages . |
| 10 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 11 | That hardly anyone was prepared to accept the Führer 's word on the losses suffered by Germany is a clear indication of how far the decline in confidence had reached . |
| 12 | This can be the keystone of the defence as well , although the defendant might be prepared to accept the plaintiff 's evidence if it contains nothing controversial . |
| 13 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 14 | Although the council might have been prepared to accept the Woodvilles ' present position , its desire for continuity would have made it unwilling to see Woodville influence extended . |
| 15 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 16 | I should also be interested to hear the Minister 's views on the Government 's policy regarding gas imports . |
| 17 | We are all interested to hear the Minister 's view on NIE . |
| 18 | Up until this time he had considered it wrong to administer the Lord 's Supper to those whose profession of faith was somewhat dubious . |
| 19 | Advent originally took a 30% equity holding in 1985 to finance the company 's need to buy an IBM mainframe , essential as , until the advent of Universal OLAS , Quality 's offerings ran only on IBM mainframes . |
| 20 | They have the worst of both worlds a government who wants to attack their pension rights and an employer willing to do the government 's bidding . |
| 21 | Bremner was a midfield bandit willing to stretch the referee 's tolerance to breaking point but football was his personal code of honour . |
| 22 | News of this reached the press , pig-lovers throughout the country came to the rescue and enough money was donated or pledged interest-free to ensure the herd 's survival . |
| 23 | Unhampered by demanding males , the ladies were free to control the city 's social life , which burgeoned forth as a result of the suddenly acquired wealth of the inhabitants . |
| 24 | If the property is subject to a mortgage , then if the new husband 's financial status is acceptable to the mortgagee it will doubtless be prepared to release the husband 's covenant in return for receiving a similar covenant from the new husband . |
| 25 | CND 's challenge to the legality of this banning order emphasized its breadth ( 786 square miles ) and its near-absolute nature , but neither the High Court nor the Court of Appeal were willing to overturn the Commissioner 's opinion about the risk of an outbreak of serious public disorder . |
| 26 | Companies that had previously been prepared to pay the Institute 's tuition fees , which are higher than for other professional qualifications , now queried it . |
| 27 | If the people concerned seek legal advice before responding , the correspondence and interviews can take months ; but such people are entitled to do so provided they are also prepared to pay the lawyers ' bills which necessarily follow . |
| 28 | The central committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( MSMP or HSWP ) decided on Dec. 12 to change the party 's name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 29 | Dr Kavanagh 's monumental landscaping is visible evidence of the tumultuous row which took place around Patrick 's other grave in August when 100 members of Dublin 's literary set turned up at Inniskeen to bury the poet 's widow Katherine . |
| 30 | For example , only a minority of respondents were willing to abolish the teacher 's desk , and very few felt able to dispense with the convention that each pupil should have his or her own place , or to accept the idea of a classroom in which there were , as a matter of policy , fewer chairs than children . |