Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common in El Salvador for political campaigners to hold meetings outside markets , where they can always be assured of a large audience . |
| 2 | The banning of one-party committees or sub-committees makes it difficult for political groups to develop policy with the benefit of officer advice . |
| 3 | Do not these apparently daily murders make plain and stark the need for political developments to take place ? |
| 4 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 5 | He also pledged to resist extreme nationalist views and called for strong measures to combat corruption , violence and crime . |
| 6 | However , Bossano continued to refuse to give his government 's assent to a December 1987 Anglo-Spanish agreement providing for Spanish airlines to use Gibraltar 's airport [ see p. 35794 ] . |
| 7 | It is possible for outstanding physiologists to describe properties of the brain without reference to psychological theories , of course , but it is surprising how far the acceptance of physiological results depends on the availability of a psychological context in which to place them . |
| 8 | From Jan. 1 , 1990 , it became illegal for European industries to dump fly ash ( the residue from coal-fired power stations ) in the North Sea . |
| 9 | The ultimate aim is to inform policy makers and project planners about possible ways to ensure women farmers have greater opportunities to improve their own lives . |
| 10 | Among the more sophisticated proposals are those put forward by Barnes and Barr that make provision for tied bursaries to protect shortage subjects and for positive discrimination by means of ‘ bonuses ’ on top of the standard bursary for particularly disadvantaged students . |
| 11 | The department decided that it would not be politic for private companies to own plutonium and is negotiating to purchase the stocks . |
| 12 | Now that modern gliders are so much heavier and have their wings closer to the ground , it is fairly usual for private owners to park 90° out of wind with the into-wind wing up . |
| 13 | As in the US , there is scope for private parties to bring actions for damages ( though not multiple damages ) where their interests have been harmed by violations of Articles 85 and 86 . |
| 14 | Since December 1981 it has been possible for non-US residents to hold euro-dollar deposits and obtain euro-dollar loans from international banking facilities within the USA . |
| 15 | Does the press narrow popular conceptions of rape and make it more difficult for raped women to obtain justice ? |
| 16 | The tribunals were intended to provide a way for rural residents to settle disputes without legal formalities . |
| 17 | By the late eighteenth century it was increasingly common for rural parishes to remit payments to their poor who had become temporarily chargeable elsewhere , rather than have them delivered back . |
| 18 | Mr Michael Fallon , the Darlington Conservative candidate , has written to Rothman 's employees about Labour plans to ban tobacco advertising . |
| 19 | Yemen 's representative , M. A. S. al-Ashtal , said that those who had once urged patience , for economic sanctions to take effect , in Rhodesia or South Africa , should give peace a chance . |
| 20 | The report contains evidence of torture , maltreatment and abuse of legal process , and calls for extensive changes to bring Malawi law into line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter . |
| 21 | There is plenty of time for hon. Members to make speeches , and if I can develop my argument a little en route , I shall be happy to do so . |
| 22 | Membership of the European exchange rate mechanism is seen as the main constraint on all parties , holding back growth and thus reducing the scope for popular moves to cut taxes or increase public spending . |
| 23 | A little like the paddy fields of China , they were a sensible way for unmechanised farmers to grow crops on steep land without causing erosion . |
| 24 | Thus , and apparently removing all doubt about French intentions to dismember Vietnam , when d'Argenlieu convened another conference at Dalat on 1 August 1946 to discuss Indochinese problems , there were representatives of Laos , Cambodia , and Cochinchina as well as the dubious entities of ‘ Southern Annam ’ and the montagnards of the Southern Plateau — but no Vietminh . |
| 25 | It was the indictments of the Audit Commission that led the Secretary of State for Social Services to ask Sir Roy Griffiths ‘ to review the way in which public funds are used to support community care policy and to advise … on the options for action that would improve the use of these funds as a contribution to more effective community care ’ . |
| 26 | In particular , the operation of the Social Fund — a benefit offered as a loan — often calls for social workers to provide support for a particular case , given the limited budget of the fund and the rationing that must be applied as a result . |
| 27 | Liaison between authorities is facilitated by the establishment of forums for different authorities to discuss matters of mutual concern . |
| 28 | Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference . |
| 29 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 30 | The government is also expected to make it easier for foreign investors to take profits out of the country . |