Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PUCE complexions at Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust , where plans to commemorate the 50,000th investor suffered an unexpected hiccup yesterday . |
| 2 | Without the proper technical knowledge or skills to tackle the new tasks future development will be much harder . |
| 3 | The General People 's Congress ( GPC — Parliament ) promulgated on Sept. 2 its " Law Number Nine of the Year 1992 " authorizing the privatization of enterprises and permitting " individuals or groups to exercise the liberal professions and to invest freely in the private sectors " . |
| 4 | No children or dogs to spoil the gold-fished lily pond . |
| 5 | Despite Smith 's editorial and Esmail and Everington 's short report the medical establishment in Britain will do little to correct the situation other than wonder how to find new barriers or regulations to stop the foreign sounding names appearing in applications before them . |
| 6 | Over a five-year period Kiselev transformed the administration of the lands between the Pruth and the Danube to such an extent that it was to be hard , thereafter , for the sultan or outsiders to prevent the eventual emergence of an independent Romania . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the time-scale involved led both parties to conclude that discussions to merge the two organisations should not be continued . ’ |
| 8 | Intelligence sources in West Germany say that efforts to stop the current wave of IRA attacks have not been hampered by rivalries and that different organisations have been co-operating well together . |
| 9 | UN Under-Secretary-General James Jonah , after heading a 10-member delegation to Mogadishu , the Somali capital , on Feb. 29-March 4 , declared himself " deeply depressed to note that efforts to relieve the starving people of Mogadishu have been recklessly disrupted " . |
| 10 | Nelson wrote ‘ I have applications from the different line of battle ships for surveys on most of their sails and running rigging which can not be complied with as there is neither cordage nor sails to replace the unserviceable stores and therefore the evil must be combated in the best manner possible . ’ |
| 11 | Some superiors were more zealous than others to enforce the disciplinary code . |
| 12 | The plaintiff 's solicitors must make regular checks ( and it is a good idea for the defendant 's insurers and solicitors to do the same ) on the wage rates at regular intervals , and not only on the rates for the job that the plaintiff would have been doing but the rate for any job into which he might have been promoted but for the accident . |
| 13 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 14 | He may have only two games to save his job against the powerful Brazilians and Germans to conclude the ill-fated US Cup tour . |
| 15 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 16 | This brought forth the usual gales of laughter and requests to pull the other one , stop having them on , etc . |
| 17 | His request was refused , and attempts to persuade the English courts to order the alteration failed when he was refused legal aid . |
| 18 | Peat and water were still flowing into the underground roadways from the subsidence and attempts to block the exposed entrance to the workings were having no success . |
| 19 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 20 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 21 | Thus the Social Charter addressed both the conditions necessary for the completion of the SEM , and attempts to create the social guarantees that the Commission regards as essential to maintain broad political support for these developments , i.e. " social cohesion " . |
| 22 | This chapter accordingly deals with the moral philosophy of punishment and attempts to relate the philosophical issues to the reality of penal systems such as that of England and Wales today . |
| 23 | Following the style of the Sikkens Specifiers Guides to Woodstains and Paints and the Sandtex Specifier 's Guide to Masonry Coatings , the new guide offers a step-by-step outline to the preparation of substrates for decoration , and the identification and selection of systems and products to achieve the desired finish . |
| 24 | As part of this process , education was expected to play a crucial role in changing attitudes , not simply in creating national unity and skills to improve the national economy . |
| 25 | As the narrative proceeds beyond Genesis , and becomes enmeshed in the story of the fortunes not of Israel the patriarch , but of Israel the people of God , it will prove much harder for the writers and compilers to keep the original purposes in view . |
| 26 | This is so in every field of social service : we need teachers , social workers , housing managers and town planners , etc. , to fill all the posts , and training establishments and programmes to produce the trained people . |
| 27 | The Union of Independent Kosovo Trade Unions called on all firms and institutions to reinstate the ethnic Albanians dismissed from their jobs after taking part in nationalist protests and the general strike of 1990 . |
| 28 | How can socialists develop their arguments and strategies to gain the maximum purchase over the reality of contemporary capitalist property relations ? |
| 29 | Chapter 2 : The state of the natural environment in the Union Republics and selected regions of the country covers the scientific principles of new techniques and technologies to ensure the ecological safety of national economic complexes and includes the concept of a regional system of ecological safety as applied in the Urals ; trends of change in the natural environment of Siberia and associated ecological studies ; ecological challenges in Byelorussia and scientific solutions , and some pressing ecological problems in the Ukraine . |
| 30 | Soon the behavioural change leads to new values and the new structures and policies to mirror the new values . |