Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A circulation plan that interrupted movement through the imposition of frequent detours and culs-de-sac was seen to be stressful for drivers and likely to lead to detours through neighbouring streets .
2 Living-room seating should be as adaptable as your lifestyle demands and able to cope with crowded parties as well as quiet evenings if need be .
3 The aim was to reach students in the Fourth to Sixth Form age group by setting up workshops and visits to the Hayward Gallery , persuading professional photographers to go to as many schools as possible to talk about their own work and the Magnum show , and encouraging ‘ young hopefuls ’ to shoot and print some of their own work .
4 We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category .
5 Controlled processes are generally assumed to be voluntary , flexible and capacity limited while automatic ones are highly efficient , unavoidable , resistant to modification , not subject to capacity limitations and able to occur without awareness ( LaBerge , 1981 ) .
6 The committee recommends that the boards of all listed companies should comply with the code and encourages as many other companies as possible to aim at meeting its requirements .
7 Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle .
8 Most of the insiders ' skills are assumed to be firm specific , acquired over the years and difficult to replicate in the short to medium run .
9 She used two the the this lady that took had the chickens and ready to put in the oven there .
10 Minnie Robinson still sent the occasional line but now Wimpole Street had been sold and she no longer had the doings of all the Barretts to catalogue her letters were empty things and difficult to respond to .
11 Kirk Douglas ' Colonel Dax is the focus sympathising with prole soldiers in the trenches but unable to reason with the aloof , detached aristocrats in high command .
12 Write the letters of CHRISTMAS down on a sheet of paper , then try to think of as many things as possible to do with the Christmas season which begin with each of the letters .
13 And every one of those evil hoodlums comes equipped with a horde of underlings , clad in silly uniforms and ready to die at a moment 's notice .
14 In both primary and secondary schools there is a need for as highly qualified teachers as possible to act as coordinators , helping and encouraging those whose main expertise lies elsewhere .
15 We would like to ask everyone in the Secondary Schools of Edinburgh to join in by encouraging as many students and teachers as possible to travel to school by bicycle that day .
16 That is why , in the defence estimates debate on 14 October 1991 , my hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) said : ’ We should be careful to preserve the opportunity for as many of our civilians as possible to serve in the volunteer forces . ’
17 We appeal to all good men and true to rally to us and vent our outrage against the object of our fully justified indignation .
18 Paraphimosis is rare in children and unlikely to account for a substantial number of circumcisions .
19 Those currencies which currently belong to the exchange rate mechanism and are not perceived by the markets as likely to join at least the first echelon of a single currency may come under pressure in the market .
20 But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life .
21 This idea of a compact should be extended to ET graduates , the aim being to encourage as many employers as possible to recruit from among ET leavers with the appropriate qualifications .
22 In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease .
23 Careful to avoid the regimentation and overcrowding that characterized the camps of its competitors and anxious to compete in terms of cost , the Association opened the 500 capacity Rogerson Hall camp near Lowestoft in 1938 .
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