Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible he had any regrets that they were neither of them free to give the undoubted chemistry between them full rein ? |
| 2 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 3 | This would leave them free to ignore the non-statutory takeover code and Stock Exchange listing rules . |
| 4 | ‘ How am I supposed to resist the inevitable ? ’ he demanded , sounding angry , and pulled at her hand , jolting her forward . |
| 5 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
| 6 | Can I just ask you both er are you unwilling to modify the standard follow up er cystoscopy for G three tumours and for T one tumours , or is it just for the G three T one . |
| 7 | " Not only are we slow to implement the European directive , we are designating the least-threatened sites first . " |
| 8 | The parents were not shown all the items taken by the police ; nor were they able to oversee the systematic search of their home . |
| 9 | Familiar with his usual belligerent stance , Matthew found it strange to see the brash , self-confident businessman reduced to the kind of helplessness he was now displaying . |
| 10 | The rapidity of expansion in the last quarter of the nineteenth century makes it possible to treat the chemical industry , for instance , as virtually a new creation . |
| 11 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 12 | He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours . |
| 13 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 14 | The solution suggested above allows the very low synonym levels of a multi-record bucket — in this case a track — to be combined with the CKD format of individually stored records , which makes it possible to search the whole track and retrieve only the desired record . |
| 15 | The studies on which these theories are based , incidentally , have involved the use of test procedures that make it possible to assess the relative contribution of the two hemispheres to psychological performance , usually on tasks that demand the processing of linguistic information . |
| 16 | Is it possible to unscrew the retaining nuts to remove two 20-year-old basin taps , set in hard putty , without cracking the basin ? |
| 17 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 18 | It seems that in the case of Texas there is yet another irony of penal reform : unemployment increases the prison population , but also makes it possible to provide the new prisons for which the need has been created . |
| 19 | By the end of 1991 , all outstanding issues between the two exchanges as regards rights , clearing arrangements and operational aspects were resolved , thus making it possible to finalise the new exchange 's rulebook and receive SIB/OFT approval to commence business . |
| 20 | The actual vaults were nearly always of concrete and it was the strength of Roman concrete which made it possible to cover the enormous spaces in this way . |
| 21 | Is it possible to fit the 90/110 door tops as the metal runners keep rusting out . |
| 22 | Is it possible to fit the Ninety gearbox to this vehicle . |
| 23 | Is it possible to forget the unhappy consequences for the Alliance of the Liberal discord male manifest at the Eastbourne Conference of 1986 ? |
| 24 | It was stated that solicitors would not find it possible to prepare the written briefs , and that it would be unfair to expect them to do so . |
| 25 | New rules make it possible to obtain the maximum relief from CGT at age 60 . |
| 26 | Is it possible to re-bore the 2.6 litre engine to accept 3.0 litre pistons and sleeves from the Rover car engine ? |
| 27 | As far as I am aware , no senior officer in the Navy considers it possible to maintain the nuclear deterrent without four submarines — and certainly no senior naval officer would support the suggestion of the Labour candidate for Barrow and Furness that the fourth submarine should be turned into a 17,000 tonne sub-sea supply vessel delivering oil instead of missiles . |
| 28 | The connecting curve was laid in and usable by September 1922 , making it possible to maintain the whole South Metropolitan fleet at Sutton depôt , so the equipment in Penge depôt was dismantled . |
| 29 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 30 | Detailed analysis of the BARB data makes it possible to develop the next , valuable set of information . |