Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oh , and finally , might it be an idea for a political writer to do the interview ? |
| 10 | He also shows his usual willingness to exploit every leak that comes to him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Telford is also seeking European funding to investigate the application of new technology in the delivery of modules in English as a Foreign Language . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Later he lay in bed beside Anne , trying to think of a satisfactory yet thoroughly non-committal story to tell the police . |
| 18 | America acted despite a last-ditch plea to avert a world trade war by Michael Heseltine last night . |
| 19 | A LAST-DITCH plea to avert a world trade war was made by Michael Heseltine last night . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm so think about if you 've got a non-working partner or somebody on a low income to spread the money er so that you , has anybody already done this er you know prior to retirement ? |
| 22 | There is absolutely no incentive for the second person on a low income to sign the application form because he is not liable to pay the tax . |
| 23 | That having taken this momentous decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we have taken a step of the most important step towards economic monetary union from which there can be no turning back . |
| 24 | Detective Inspector Ian Redpath had sufficient experience of the Thames at low tide to keep a pair of gumboots in his car , and the police surgeon , Dr. Gillespie , was similarly well equipped . |
| 25 | Its function is not known as yet , but the leaf may serve as mobile camouflage to protect the fish from the eight species of kingfisher which feed along this river or it may act as a ‘ stalking horse ’ as the fish pursues its prey . |
| 26 | Just concentrate on watching out for the right opportunity to broach the subject of Janice , she reminded herself . |
| 27 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 28 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 29 | A measure of the relief from intractable heartburn and regurgitation was the patients ' expressed willingness to repeat the operation given circumstances similar to those before the first fundoplication . |
| 30 | In a telling demonstration of the current rift in Solidarity [ see pp. 37546 ; 37620-21 ] , the union 's national commission voted on Sept. 5 by a narrow majority to ban the use of the Solidarity logo on the masthead of Gazeta Wyborcza , the Solidarity newspaper created in the run-up to the 1989 parliamentary elections [ see p. 36724 ] . |