Example sentences of "[adj] in [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Allen said the union leaders would leave no stone unturned in their efforts to save the Leyland-DAF plants at Glasgow , Birmingham , Leyland , Chorley and Thame . |
| 2 | Mr Allen said the union leaders would leave no stone unturned in their efforts to save the Leyland-DAF plants at Glasgow , Birmingham , Leyland , Chorley and Thame . |
| 3 | County Board officials are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to ensure that everything possible is done to facilitate the preparations for the big game . |
| 4 | The Court held , however , that the phrase ‘ in accordance with law ’ means that the law ‘ must be sufficiently clear in its terms to give citizens an adequate indication as to the circumstances in which and the conditions on which public authorities are empowered to resort to this secret and potentially dangerous interference with the right to respect for private life and correspondence . |
| 5 | Already prone in his diaries to use the superlative it was indeed somewhat of a problem in trying to entice people to see the beauties of the Lake District , not to use repeatedly such expressions as ‘ the grandest view of all ’ , ‘ one of the finest assemblages in England ’ , over and over again . |
| 6 | Some of these , such as Charles Worsley who controlled the north-west of the country , paid special attention to their moral duties and were untiring in their efforts to close down brothels , gaming-houses , and unlicensed ale-houses , and to prevent a whole range of popular recreations , including horse-racing , cock-fighting , and bear-baiting . |
| 7 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 8 | How easy to talk to he 'd been , generous in his desire to tell her what she wanted to know . |
| 9 | There was nothing merely theoretical in his duty to preserve these rights . |
| 10 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 11 | Papert evidently dislikes many of the first uses of computers in education , but is more interested in their power to transform schools than to abolish them . |
| 12 | ‘ Sky are already interested in our plan to turn pool away from the snooker image and into a slick , fast presentation . |
| 13 | The works of his so-called ‘ pink ’ and ‘ blue ’ periods were being bought by important collectors , and the fact that an established dealer like Vollard was interested in his work gave him additional prestige . |
| 14 | The novels of writers who are almost forgotten but who were popular in their day have also been particularly useful . |
| 15 | Ridiculously , a song that had been popular in her childhood flooded her mind . |
| 16 | Bush was careful in his proposals to avoid trespassing on traditional local and state responsibilities for education , assigning , for instance , a panel of administration officials and governors to develop the national tests . |
| 17 | Yeah See er John 's a bit too , well he 's a bit oldish or old in his ways to have the responsibility of youngsters . |
| 18 | It is not acceptable in our society to start smelling each other closely or to feel each other , except in approved salutations . |
| 19 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |
| 20 | But even as she made the token protest she knew a longing almost painful in its intensity to feel the possession of his mouth all over again . |
| 21 | It mentions human death , pulls no punches to please and is transparent in its will to manipulate . |
| 22 | It was the British proposals which , as much as anything , stalled Scandinavian discussions on a Nordic common market , for if Britain was to be fortunate in its attempt to forge something beyond the Europe of the Six , the Nordic states would have little choice other than to follow the British lead . |
| 23 | Others not so fortunate in their relations borrowed from money-lenders who , in this time of gambling mania , set up businesses exclusively devoted to advancing money at extremely high rates for settling gambling debts . |
| 24 | BASILDON New Towngate Theatre ( 0268-532 632 ) Second Stride Heaven Ablaze in His Breast rehashed Coppelia based on Hoffmann 's ‘ The Sandman ’ about a man 's dangerous obsession with a mechanical doll to Sat . |
| 25 | Nanny in Peking murdered three-year-old in her care to avenge repeated rapes by the boy 's father , then gave herself up to police . |
| 26 | Looking to get more serious in its efforts to encourage the emergence of a thriving Sparcsystems-building community , Sun Microsystems Inc will open yet another new business unit this month that will licence the silicon and system designs of its next generation 64-bit UltraSparc , SuperSparc+ and MicroSparc processor families . |
| 27 | Looking to get more serious in its efforts to encourage a real Sparc compatible community , Sun Microsystems Inc will open a new business unit next month that 'll licence the silicon and system designs of its next generation , 64-bit UltraSparc , SuperSparc+ and MicroSparc ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 28 | The chemical industry 's ‘ Responsible Care ’ programme has a major role to play in demonstrating that the industry is serious in its intent to perform better . |
| 29 | If the IB is serious in its wish to help restore democracy it must act now . |
| 30 | If central and local government are serious in their intent to create choice and consumerism , what I would call welfare consumerism in health and social care , then they must also take seriously the need to support voluntary organisations trying to meet those aspirations . |