Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungarian PEN we have an uphill struggle to try to promote those Hungarian writers who are worth promoting , but so many of them travel badly in translation . |
| 2 | Cyrus we stand before your eternal dwelling to place to speak these solemn words ; sleep on in peace for ever , for we are awake and we remain to watch over your glorious heritage . |
| 3 | Such areas as staffing and physical resources were monitored by CNAA and , thus , it was considered unnecessary duplication to seek to do this again . |
| 4 | I 'd like to thank Betty and Jim for organizing this wonderful party to give both of our families the ideal opportunity to get to know each other . |
| 5 | It was a contentious issue and was generally seen as an attempt by the party 's left wing to try to remove some Labour members of whom they disapproved . |
| 6 | However , in that case the defendants had been aware of the plaintiff 's medical evidence and to avoid possible objections at trial it is good practice to amend to plead any substantial changes to the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 7 | Aerial photographs are often a useful way to start to approach these historic landscapes and townscapes . |
| 8 | It is highly unusual for the Prime Minister to agree to meet such a group at Downing Street . |
| 9 | If corporate diversification were relevant , it might be a good idea to try to do this , but corporate strategic portfolio analysis does not consider it . |
| 10 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 11 | The President must offer the three main party leaders in turn a three-day mandate to try to form another government based on the present parliament . |
| 12 | Some European nations still gave much weight to traditional authority , but most of them also showed a growing tendency to seek to legitimize such authority on other grounds . |
| 13 | The one Minister with the political courage and economic sense to attempt to alleviate this situation by using the price mechanism selectively was Hugh Gaitskell . |
| 14 | Would possible street rioting not be a small price to pay to get these sub-normal beings removed from our midst ? |
| 15 | Can he give a categorical assurance to the House that none of that money was used by the Soviet Communist party to try to destabilise this country and foment industrial disputes , as it has now admitted that it did ? |
| 16 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 17 | Worse still , in their programmes of records , of which there are many , it is common practice to have to endure several minutes of discussion on the item to be played . |
| 18 | It is not only a difficult job to attempt to integrate these but also one that might have opposition from users who would prefer to keep to a successful , if limited , system . |
| 19 | We 've made a determined effort to try to get more er drug addicts to come forward , to accept treatment and so on . |
| 20 | Characterised by confusion over aims and changes of membership , the panel made a number of false starts and fresh starts with the injection of new blood to try to give more direction to its work . |
| 21 | It is too ambitious for a financial organisation to hope to recognise such situations and respond accordingly ? |
| 22 | Understandably , perhaps , there is a strong temptation to try to avoid these difficulties by taking qualities as basic and confining oneself to the idea of a plurality of qualities , with particulars being interpreted as bundles of qualities . |
| 23 | Conventions are here understood in a narrow sense in which they are solutions to co-ordination problems , i.e. to situations in which the vast majority have sufficient reason to prefer to take that action which is ( likely to be ) taken by the vast majority . |