Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , within s.3 it is not enough that the victim expects or requires the accused to pay . |
| 2 | The dishonest accused is doing something authorised when he removes goods from the shelves ; yet surely if the owner knew , he would not allow or authorise the accused to take anything . |
| 3 | It was such qualities , combined with its outstanding durability and scarcity , that led the Chinese to invest it with the symbolic qualities and applications that served to mark it out all the more emphatically as for them precious beyond all other substances . |
| 4 | I am not about to dismiss the poor as part of a force for change , but there is a great deal more to it than organizing the poor to help themselves . |
| 5 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 6 | In these concrete examples , here at last was literacy that enabled the poor to see themselves as the makers of their own history , with the power to change their world . |
| 7 | The French took even stronger measures than did the British to discourage an African press . |
| 8 | Resist the temptation to offer your ideas , instead continue to probe , dropping clues and helping the subordinate to see new ways forward . |
| 9 | He raised his whisky right in front of the Apache , as if daring the Apache to try the same thing on him . |
| 10 | In Cato , above , the victim produced heroin and syringes and invited the accused to have a fix . |
| 11 | In his final act as President , George Bush declares trade war on Japan over chip imports , and warns the Japanese to remember Pearl Harbor . |
| 12 | They accuse the gay community of propagandising and leading the young to believe that , if they 're actively heterosexual , then they must be repressing their homosexuality . |
| 13 | PLUG ARE a cheerful four-piece with a singer who likes to think he looks like Morrissey but actually bears a closer resemblance to a slightly wobbly Eddie Tenpole Tudor , and reveals an easy to spot Cud fixation . |
| 14 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 15 | But to encourage the underprivileged to put their faith in Mr Kinnock as the wealth creator , of all things unimaginable , that really is stooping to conquer with a vengeance . |
| 16 | Defeat would virtually assure the Belgians of a place in the finals in America , while forcing the Welsh to join Czechoslovakia and the unpredictable Romanians in a mad scramble for the second qualifying place . |
| 17 | This rule needs to be changed , so as to allow the unemployed to draw benefit as long as unemployment lasts , providing that claimants have not refused jobs they were offered without good cause , and are prepared to go on training schemes . |