Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examination papers should be approved four months before students are due to sit the examination and centres should allow three months for the moderation process ( to allow for any resubmission ) . |
| 2 | This is presumably because it is seldom possible to heal the breach that is usually created by fighting a legal battle . |
| 3 | She was too upset to continue the call and I regretted my decision . |
| 4 | It included Readers ' digest , and a host of other benefactors , who have made it possible to restore the house and gardens to their pristine splendour . |
| 5 | WITHOUT wishing to cash in on the latest Royal marital rift it seems right to impart the information that some cartoons depicting the unfortunate pair have gone on sale in their adoptive city . |
| 6 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 7 | The authorities were always prompt to support the Mufti and the religious sheikhs on a thing like this . |
| 8 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 9 | Was it possible rhetorical question was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the constitution ? |
| 10 | There is also little to support the contention that teaching and research in medical schools are improved by mergers into multifaculty institutions with large departments of biological sciences . |
| 11 | The buyer 's right to treat the contract as repudiated arises in the same circumstances as his right to reject the goods , i. e. if the seller commits a breach of condition or a breach of warranty which deprives the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract ( see paragraph 7–04 , above ) . |
| 12 | However , it is then often necessary to read a whole bucket into primary storage at a time ; it is not possible to search the bucket and read in only the required record , but this does not apply if a device such as ICL 's CAFS-ISP is available to speed up the search . |
| 13 | There can be no further argument , except perhaps to say that to preserve the symmetry and consistency of match conditions between first-class cricket and Test cricket , a tenet so assiduously sought by the working party in its proposals , the duration of Test matches should be reduced to four days ! |
| 14 | To the outside of the frame were attached wrist straps making it possible to support the instrument and use both hands in a performance . |
| 15 | In such works as Bewick 's , it is possible to see the deterioration that has occurred from the use of badly worn blocks . |
| 16 | It was no longer possible to see the world as developing towards socialism and international harmony . |
| 17 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 18 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 19 | It was all the wrong way round , I thought : it was more usual to know the crime and seek the criminal , than to know the criminal and seek his crime . |
| 20 | For stationary axisymmetric solutions , it is usual to impose the condition that the space-times are asymptotically flat , and techniques for generating new solutions of Ernst 's equation in which the space-time satisfies this condition have been developed . |
| 21 | Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall . |
| 22 | It is possible to juggle the pleating and spacing arrangements within reason , putting more or less fabric into the pleats and spaces to achieve your desired result . |
| 23 | Whatever the policies and commitments of a country 's past and current governments may be , it is not possible to exclude the possibility that some future government will not alter the " irrevocably fixed " exchange rates of its currency , or impose restrictions on the movement of capital and , thus , secede from the exchange rate union . |
| 24 | Indeed it is possible to circumvent the argument that the cadavers needed for educational purposes involve substantial extra killing since tissue is regularly collected from abattoirs or from research laboratories where the animals have been used in licensed procedures . |
| 25 | The Slovak parliament on Nov. 15 passed a resolution approving its presidium 's position , but on Nov. 19 the Slovak government nevertheless voted by 12 to eight to accept the view that the treaty was a basis for discussion , rather than a legal document ; it also agreed to concede further powers to the common state . |
| 26 | You are right to rebuke the Master when he forgets himself so . ’ |
| 27 | It is not possible to accept the belief that ‘ God pervades everything that is to be found in this universe down to the tiniest atom ’ , and not at the same time accept the idea of universal brotherhood and the essential unity and equality of all earthly creatures . |
| 28 | The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons ( Mr. John Wakeham ) : It is not possible to provide the information that my Hon. Friend requests , as attendance by peers in their Gallery depends largely on the business of the House . |
| 29 | It was almost possible to smell the misery and tension in her . |
| 30 | The Illustrated London News Partnership was established in 1985 to acquire the ILN and Natural World from the International Thomson Organisation . |