Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sanchez reached into his shirt pocket and drew out a fat paper cylinder , stroking its length with pursed fingers to smooth the kinks . |
| 12 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 13 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 14 | Its future , however , is uncertain , extensive plans to integrate the building into part of a much bigger new-build scheme having been put on hold . |
| 15 | Some demonstrators attempted to cross the border , prompting the Iranian authorities to issue a protest to the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 17 | Much of the night passed in vain attempts to open the tomb , but an appeal to the saint herself worked wonders ( a common feature of such tales ) , and the party made for its ships with the precious plunder . |
| 18 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 19 | We arrived at 9.30 , went through the usual contortions to buy a ticket , and were told to expect a train at 10.30 . |
| 20 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 21 | Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible . |
| 22 | There was turkey and chicken , lamb and pork ; a variety of fish , sausages , salads , jacket potatoes ; jellies , trifle , cakes and enough sticky buns to satisfy a Billy Bunter . |
| 23 | Labour plans to replace the poll tax , which now costs the 81 Major Street residents a total £24,319.44 , exclusive of any rebates , for the financial year which started on Wednesday . |
| 24 | Labour plans to reduce the number of special schools to five , with one all-age school for children with physical disabilites were rejected . |
| 25 | The use of fiscal and monetary policies to influence the level of demand also has implications for the prices and growth objectives . |
| 26 | Instead more reliance was attached to expenditure-reducing policies ( see Section 7.2.3 ) as a solution to the balance of payments problems , and this involved the use of both fiscal and monetary policies to bring the expansion of demand to a sudden end . |
| 27 | ELABORATE last-ditch attempts to save a town from lava flowing from Sicily 's Mount Etna were postponed for a second day yesterday because of poor weather . |
| 28 | Stuart Weir reports on Tory and Labour attempts to win the argument over constitutional reform |
| 29 | But the news overshadowed Labour attempts to make the economy the centrepiece of their conference attacks on the government . |
| 30 | These could involve technical improvements to reduce the likelihood of collision , for example through the introduction of anti-lock braking systems . |