Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism was also echoed by Dr Mudthir El Tinquawi the former director of Khartoum University who accused the Government of making a political decision to implement the concept of ‘ arabisation ’ in the country 's universities , while failing to provide financial support . |
| 2 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 3 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |
| 4 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 5 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 6 | It is also intended in due course to hold a number of open meetings in various places in the U.K. which I hope many Members will be able to attend . |
| 7 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |
| 8 | The professor will be a member ex officio of the committee , and will be expected from time to time to hold offices such as that of Chairman of the Committee or Director of Graduate Studies , and in due course to assume the duties of professor in charge of the Institute , which are customarily rotated by arrangement . |
| 9 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 10 | But here , if you were caught preparing an escape , the worst that could happen to you was fourteen days solitary confinement with books and writing materials , and it was often a pleasant change to spend a fortnight by yourself after months of compulsory association . |
| 11 | Oh , and finally , might it be an idea for a political writer to do the interview ? |
| 12 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 13 | He also shows his usual willingness to exploit every leak that comes to him . |
| 14 | But the bearing of children at advanced ages to satisfy a demand for large numbers of them as , for example , in the Africa region is associated both with higher levels of maternal mortality , early childhood mortality and the morbidity of infants and young children . |
| 15 | Recognising that consent must be based on a true appreciation of contents , this proposal reveals a strange inability to grasp the extent to which a work of art can rarely if ever be described or paraphrased with perfect accuracy . |
| 16 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 17 | This was the general , and rather bleak , attitude behind his specific attempts to reach a formula for what was in effect a new Christian activism . |
| 18 | Telford is also seeking European funding to investigate the application of new technology in the delivery of modules in English as a Foreign Language . |
| 19 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 20 | Then in July 1966 the Welsh Nationalists won a by-election at Carmarthen and in November 1967 the Scottish National Party overturned a 16,000 Labour majority to win a by-election at Hamilton . |
| 21 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 22 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no specific plans to meet the ambassador , but both he and I have met him recently . |
| 24 | In recognising the safety and accessibility needs of pedestrians the Council has nominated a Pedestrian Liaison Officer who has a specific responsibility to provide an interface with groups representing pedestrian interests to allow their views to be highlighted . |
| 25 | Also included in the packing are a multi-way cable to link the tablet to the Spectrum 's edge connector , a cassette containing the software , a keyboard overlay and a wad of A5 sized photocopied paper that claims to be a manual . |
| 26 | Later he lay in bed beside Anne , trying to think of a satisfactory yet thoroughly non-committal story to tell the police . |
| 27 | This was an initiative sponsored by the SDLP at first intended to bring together politicians from both catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist groups to discuss the future of the island as a whole . |
| 28 | America acted despite a last-ditch plea to avert a world trade war by Michael Heseltine last night . |
| 29 | A LAST-DITCH plea to avert a world trade war was made by Michael Heseltine last night . |
| 30 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |