Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Six of our residents took part in a driving exercise and we demonstrated that clearly and this is for your benefit we 'll give it to you , although it 's three miles longer to the point where the A sixty one joins the A one , even with the present state of the A one , it is ten minutes quicker to go via the A six five eight , A fifty nine , A one route . |
| 2 | ‘ I play with the slide on my little finger , so I leave three fingers free to fret behind the slide . |
| 3 | Scott 's instructions to proceed with working drawings followed on 17th March with a request for a list of builders willing to tender for the work . |
| 4 | We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth . |
| 5 | Almost five hundred friends and relatives have made the trip to Winchester , to encourage and support the recruits due to graduate to the status of trained Light Division soldiers . |
| 6 | There is still a high integration workload and the business has to look further out into the future to enable it to respond to the changes and opportunities likely to occur in the industry . |
| 7 | Iron combined with organic matter can not be removed by the methods applicable to iron in the ionized form . |
| 8 | Refunds will be provided at point of sale for fans unable to go to the relevant dates . |
| 9 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 10 | The effective transaction of communicative business requires the parties concerned to enter into a sort of social contract involving adherence to what has been called the ‘ Cooperative Principle ’ ( see Grice 1975 ) . |
| 11 | For example , if a company has only a limited amount of funds available to spend over the next few years , centralised management would be able to take a balanced view of how the funds should be shared out between production , marketing , research and development , motor vehicles , other fixed asset purchases in different departments etc . |
| 12 | He got several books ready to throw at the creature . |
| 13 | A drawback is that it 's put them in the frame for some pretty clueless advances from non-comprehending journalists eager to get to the bottom of this modernist lark . |
| 14 | The Scottish Office has said it would not allow schools with low rolls to opt out , but the parents claim they have enough schools ready to join in a rolling campaign of ballots which would delay closures by two years . |
| 15 | In an effort to produce a short form the JCT has not included specific provisions for many common situations , such as the need to open up work for inspection , or loss and expense suffered by the contractors due to default by the employer and supervising officer . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 17 | Companies unwilling to move to the older regions had the option of moving to the new towns . |
| 18 | The Tindemans Report ( 1976 ) recommended a gradual approach towards EMU , and suggested that the countries able to proceed in the direction of monetary union should do so , and others should follow suit later when conditions became more favourable . |
| 19 | Global Biodiversity Strategy , a blueprint for conservation prepared by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) , the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) and the World Resources Institute , has suggested that third world countries should declare sovereignty over their genetic resources as a means of protecting the earth 's diversity of species , and allowing the countries concerned to profit from the growing demand for plants and animals . |
| 20 | Working towards achieving the certificate will ensure that you are gaining experience in all the areas necessary to work within a specific sector of the freight industry . |
| 21 | It can be limited across the whole country or across wide areas liable to suffer in the longer term ( for example , on all permeable soils such as on chalk , limestone , sand or sandstone ) . |
| 22 | And yet Darlington council continues to receive planning applications from companies eager to break into the market . |
| 23 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 24 | Furthermore , Unwin seems at times unsympathetic to labour as a background for poetry : |
| 25 | Proposals likely to lead to the development of ideas or resources of use to others will be given priority . |
| 26 | The re-structuring of Britain 's defences will , of course , be a gradual process — RAF Hullavington is one of the bases due to close in the autumn . |
| 27 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 28 | They do however differ greatly in their components : the kind of subelements likely to appear within the divisions of a dictionary ( for example ) will be entirely different from those likely to appear within the divisions of a letter or a novel . |
| 29 | ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ . |
| 30 | The US Army devised a screening test to identify individuals unable to cope with the stress of continuous battle , called the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet . |