Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Counterpurchase , the buyer agrees to purchase on normal commercial terms , including making foreign exchange available . |
| 2 | So in March 1866 he offered eight to the town and the Local Government Board agreed to lay on free water . |
| 3 | The major conclusions are therefore that the market economy is a remarkably efficient way of creating wealth largely because it succeeds in utilising more information than alternative economic systems ; that for a market economy to work , the society of which it is part needs to believe in certain kinds of values : it must lay great store by individual responsibility and also have a non-egalitarian view of what constitutes social justice ; that the so called ‘ crisis ’ of capitalism results from a prevailing set of cultural values , typified by Freudianism and Marxism , which are contrary to those needed for the market economy to prosper , that humanism as a philosophy can not guarantee to generate the appropriate values , and that Christianity can provide such values and has indeed done so during the period of industrialisation throughout much of the Western world , but in consequence the kind of market economy which is then championed is different from that currently defined by the libertarian philosophy of Professor Friedman and Professor Hayek . |
| 4 | In winter , skin has to contend with central heating and cold temperatures ; conditions which can cause even the oiliest of skin types to become dehydrated . |
| 5 | There are , of course , cases where the user has to resort to good old ASCII , the lingua franca of all computer systems but even here there are tricks that can be employed to make the process a little easier . |
| 6 | Against this background , Scotch Whisky has to compete against strong and growing competition from an increasingly wide range of drinks products . |
| 7 | I do very little research apart from general reading and looking at guides — to be frank , there 's not enough money involved to pay for extensive on the ground or air research . |
| 8 | Football : Hard times at Hartlepool : Jonathan Foster on a club struggling to escape from pervasive depression |
| 9 | Social Democratic Party seat at risk to Labour : Plymouth Devonport : Dr David Owen 's old seat expected to revert to Labour after heavy job losses at naval dockyard . |
| 10 | AA protein was identified by positive staining with anti-AA antibody and sensitivity to KMnO 4 reaction , while AL protein failed to stain with anti-AA , anti-Β 2 -microglobulin , and anti-prealbumin antibodies , and was resistant to KMnO 4 reaction . |
| 11 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 12 | It may well be that a particular piece of research needs to focus on selected people for information , and the information gained from them will be fitted together into a coherent and consistent pattern with virtually no percentages and significance tests at all . |
| 13 | The government also derived revenue from its privatization programme designed to return to private ownership many of the state companies acquired during the 20-year rule of Marcos . |
| 14 | Violinist Nigel Kennedy and Scottish rock group Wet Wet Wet completed a balanced programme designed to appeal to different types of audiences . |
| 15 | The standing of Keynesianism seemed to ebb by visible degrees with the publication of each successive article which took as its starting-point the assumption of full employment . |
| 16 | In either case principally Chinese armies would have been involved and , in the short run at least , Vietnam 's political future seemed to lie in Chinese hands . |
| 17 | Since Allison took over from Dennis Rofe , who walked out of the club refusing to work with Big Mal , Rovers have lost only once in the league and achieved three victories and a draw . |
| 18 | He fell , and the Manchu 's final stroke seemed to descend with unstoppable fury . |
| 19 | The Irish Republic is a Catholic country and even those Protestants who do not expect to be actively persecuted doubt that they will have full civil and religious liberty when the major religious institution refuses to engage in fair competition by , for example , permitting the parents free choice of their child 's religion in the case of mixed marriage . |
| 20 | Brilliant , so , you , this is , this year , is this scholarship going to continue in future years or is it just a one off ? |
| 21 | One is that women 's fear of rape by a stranger is inborn ; another is that crime reporting tends to focus on violent crime , particularly against women . ’ |
| 22 | If local scepticism tends to collapse into global scepticism , this may be an advantage , since global sceptical arguments are generally more convincing and effective than their local counterparts . |
| 23 | As with anorexia , the condition tends to recur after traditional forms of hospital treatment in medical or psychiatric units . |
| 24 | Research tends to focus on discrete areas of work , agency settings or a particular age range or group of children . |
| 25 | They were very sympathetic but after a while the tension began to build with ever-increasing rows . |
| 26 | But , taking its cue from the Flowers Report , the industry began to look with renewed vigour for somewhere to get rid of its most troublesome detritus . |
| 27 | Outside snow began to fall in large fat flakes . |
| 28 | Moderate weight loss seems to lead to subtle ovulation disorders and therefore to decreasing fecundity . |
| 29 | Moreover neutrophil adhesion to the endothelium seems to correlate with increased LTB 4 concentrations and adhesion is prevented by inhibitors of the synthesis of leukotrienes . |
| 30 | For example , plasticity seems to depend on identifiable ion channels and catalytic molecules that activate or inhibit these channels . |