Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it should mean — but it does not — that decisions which do not bear on or affect other Member States should remain with the nation state or below . |
| 2 | In November 1990 , the Government conceded that the Immigration ( Carriers Liability ) Act and associated visa requirements ‘ do indeed prevent some asylum seekers from coming to the UK ’ , but further stated that it ‘ has no obligation to encourage or assist would-be asylum seekers … to come here and enter our procedures ’ . |
| 3 | — Can you hire or borrow English language video programmes ? |
| 4 | It opens the door to those who seek to attack or curtail social work activity and , after all , knowledge is ‘ power ’ as much for one 's enemy as for oneself . |
| 5 | My own line is studying the effect of lasers on chemical reactions to see if lasers can be used to stimulate or generate new novel types of chemical process . |
| 6 | The intention was simple , to destroy or deactivate any cancer cells in my body . |
| 7 | The Merchant Navy officers ' union , NUMAST , in its submission to the Donaldson inquiry , claimed yesterday that some tankers sail with crews unable to steer or understand basic safety rules . |
| 8 | To instil or reinforce responsible drinking attitudes and behaviour . |
| 9 | Bearing in mind the course leaders ' concern to instil or reinforce responsible drinking attitudes and behaviour , it is worth noting that before the course 77 per cent of the participants agreed with the statement ‘ To enjoy yourself , it is necessary to have something to drink ’ ; yet by the end of the course 88 per cent disagreed with this attitude . |
| 10 | Specific , narrow-targeted services should be developed either to replace or supplement general-purpose business information services . |
| 11 | However , in some intra-state conflicts local elites may have the legal and administrative expertise and capacity to ignore or alter central elite policies , though for limited periods . |
| 12 | All state secondary schools are required by law to publish their results once a year and so now you can write or phone individual school secretaries or the LEA and ask for a copy of the exam results , ideally asking for the previous 2 or 3 years . |
| 13 | Throttle control is n't enough on its own to do this and riders play a treacherous and delicate juggling act , weighting the footrests , shifting body weight and manipulating the throttle to increase or decrease rear tyre grip as required . |
| 14 | There are no longer legal immunities for industrial action aiming to establish or maintain closed shop practices , nor for employer coercion tactics compelling workers to unionize . |
| 15 | It is proposed to give the Directors the authority to alter the schemes to take account of or comply with any changes in any proposed or existing legislation affecting the schemes , or to take account of any take-over or reconstruction of the Company or to obtain or maintain favourable taxation treatment of the Company , any subsidiary or any participant , in each case excluding any changes which affect the basic structure of the schemes or the limits on the number of shares which may be subscribed for under the schemes . |
| 16 | Training officers who noted that they were able to spend their full time on training were very rare , although it was noted in Chapter 4 that a training officer or more ‘ training officer time ’ was the most commonly wanted further ‘ resource ’ to expand or develop existing training programmes . |
| 17 | Running concurrent with this , however , was a belief that the community in the post-war period did little to ensure or support such life styles . |
| 18 | In recent years , the outage has been used to construct or commission major capital projects to extend the plants ' capability . |
| 19 | Aside from the revelation of God there is no data which would encourage or allow any thinking person to develop a truly unselfish philosophy of life . |
| 20 | HARDCOPY VERIFIER Once the user has decided whether to accept or reject hard copy volumes , this interactive program , HCVERIFY.EXE , is run to inform the hard copy system of the decision . |
| 21 | In any event , there is likely to be significant variation in views as to how far one should condemn or condone this liberationist violence in the North . |
| 22 | For decades the main aim of every enterprise was to meet or exceed government-set output targets rather than to improve production methods . |
| 23 | The politicians and bureaucrats at this level can have a profound effect upon the local people , and can obstruct , alter or intensify central government actions . |
| 24 | Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part . |
| 25 | ‘ We hereby solemnly declare that we shall use no forcible means to apprehend , confine , or imprison any person assistant whatever who has appeared at Castle Menzies or elsewhere , or in any part of Perth on prior days . |
| 26 | It seems that the legal and economic objective of the merger regulation is not to foster the creation of European champions , but to ensure that mergers within the Community do not create or strengthen dominant market positions in the Common Market . |
| 27 | For example , if he learnt that the patient was a Jehovah 's Witness , but had no evidence of a refusal to accept blood transfusions , he would avoid or postpone any blood transfusion so long as possible . |
| 28 | Were you to decrease or increase those staffing levels , then obviously that affects the amount of work you can carry out . |
| 29 | The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Bill provided for fines and imprisonment for those found guilty of heightening tension between members of different faiths , of inciting others to defy or challenge secular government policies , or to mobilize followers for subversion . |
| 30 | The second aspect which can be noted is the reluctance of government sometimes to appreciate or accept possible resource implications . |