Example sentences of "[adj] and [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the extraordinary congress in December the 2,000 delegates had adopted a programme which committed the Socialist Party to act as a " barrier to the right and extreme-right and to pursue economic modernization , social justice , and the construction of Europe " . |
| 2 | One of the few exceptions to this was Stonehenge , which always seems to have been regarded as extremely old and to have excited theories about how the lintels were raised : one early theory was that the magician Merlin placed the stones . |
| 3 | There is pressure from the society being served — to respond this way and that ; there is pressure from employers ; and there is the pressure from within — to be an individual and to express individual tastes and views . |
| 4 | Following talks with party president Rajiv Gandhi on Jan. 23-24 in New Delhi , at which Pawar 's offer of resignation was rejected , the Maharashtra cabinet was expanded by 11 to 33 in order to make it more broad-based and to end intra-party squabbles . |
| 5 | Attention to the environment in terms of appropriate lighting , both overall and to meet individual needs , and the provision of clear , well-presented learning materials should be helpful to these pupils as well as to those who have more severe visual defects . |
| 6 | Their overseas affiliates tend to be highly autonomous and to remit small proportions of their profits to the parent . |
| 7 | Centres are advised to forward schemes to HCIMA as early as possible and to allow 10 weeks for the moderation process ( in order to allow for resubmissions ) . |
| 8 | For practical and economic reasons , therefore and in general , the main objective of systematic cleaning will be to reduce the use of manual labour as far as possible and to substitute other forms of energy mainly chemical . |
| 9 | It is better to keep things as simple as possible and to avoid mere gimmickry . |
| 10 | When concerned with denudation chronology it is necessary to utilize as much information as possible and to avoid conceptual approaches which are too constraining . |
| 11 | On Sept. 12 ESA officials announced that its new Pegasus rocket , designed to be air-launched and to carry small satellites into orbit , would undergo its first flight test in the USA the following week . |
| 12 | The cycle is repetitive : abandoned children of irresponsible fathers , women forced by circumstances to be strong and to take sole responsibility for their children . |
| 13 | He is qualified to think the unthinkable and to pose those questions which in normal circumstances would go unasked . |
| 14 | Remedies can be given both pre-operatively and post-operatively to speed up healing and to counteract any effects of anxiety , shock and the anaesthetic . |
| 15 | In a similar vein , Stuart Holland noted that ‘ it takes time to win the intellectual appreciation by some trade unionists that these policies would be useful and to achieve that gut reaction by trade unionists that they are absolutely essential . |
| 16 | He came to believe that in order to help the poor and to achieve social harmony both the state and charity should work to improve living and working conditions . |
| 17 | Many individuals , once they leave school , do too little exercise to keep healthy and to maintain good weight control . |
| 18 | [ The ] function of [ the criminal law ] , as we see it , is to preserve public order and decency , to protect the citizen from what is offensive and injurious and to provide sufficient safeguards against exploitation or corruption of others , particularly those who are specially vulnerable because they are young , weak in body or mind or inexperienced … |
| 19 | Experimental support for the thrifty genotype comes from work in rodents showing that strains susceptible to obesity and diabetes have lower metabolic rates , defective thermoregulatory mechanisms , and an enhanced ability to store food as fat and to survive prolonged fasting . |
| 20 | Perhaps LIMB has simply given librarians the opportunity to replicate what is available and to produce improved guides more quickly , but widespread duplication is still common . |
| 21 | Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes . |
| 22 | The debate over the most effective way to promote management education in general and to ensure effective provision in the public sector institutions led the Secretary of State in March 1971 to announce a plan for the creation of twelve Regional Management Centres ( RMCs ) . |
| 23 | Longing to see something green and to inhale fresh air , Vincent asked the doctor how much longer he would have to wait to be discharged . |
| 24 | Moreover , the individuals themselves who are suffering these severe episodes need security and containment as well as space to move about , to feel unfettered and to retain some privacy . |
| 25 | This article gives a series of anonymous examples to suggest that the impact of similar guides for editors has been patchy and to make some suggestions for better communication . |
| 26 | Sun intends that the UltraSparc should be highly superscalar and to handle four instructions in each clock cycle . |
| 27 | The four countries , Botswana , Malawi , Namibia and Zimbabwe , opposed the ban on ivory trading imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , arguing that their well-managed and expanding elephant herds require culling and that a controlled trade in ivory is the best way to finance conservation and to allow local people to benefit from protecting wildlife . |
| 28 | Obviously , individuals that either fail to find enough food for themselves or unwisely and fatally expose themselves to predators tend to die young and to leave few offspring . |
| 29 | It is easy to debate in this House and reveal inherent contradictions between one side and the other and to make simplistic points about how one side must be right and the other wrong . |
| 30 | The Third report introduced a beguiling relationship : on the one hand , the need to establish new and to expand old industries in the Special Areas , and on the other , the need to control the post-1918 growth of Greater London . |