Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Trimble told the Speaker he appreciated that it was the normal practice not to have immediate statements on specific terrorist incidents ‘ because that amplifies the terror ’ . |
| 2 | Certainly she found him so , despite what he so obviously thought of her , and as the kiss deepened she felt sleepy and warm and pliant — the nicest thing ever to have happened — and then bereft when he broke the gentle exploration . |
| 3 | I am delighted that it has now decided to co-operate with the Government and solve a problem that I brought the regional affairs committee of the European Parliament over to look at 14 years ago . |
| 4 | Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House will take every step to persuade the European Community not to introduce regulations that will ever allow such trade to be introduced . |
| 5 | a duty to the investing public not to trade on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information ( commonly referred to as inside information ) for its own account or to ‘ tip ’ ( pass on inside information ) clients in its advisory capacity . |
| 6 | If the maintenance of confidentiality is of critical importance consider notifying members of the MAS department how to respond to telephone enquiries . |
| 7 | ‘ The consequence of the combined decision not to recruit expert staff or to invest in extensive training could be considerable . |
| 8 | Its history was of minor significance in itself , although its activities did lead to a degree of confrontation which acted as a precursor to the political violence later to become associated with the BUF in the 1930s . |
| 9 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |
| 10 | The rowing-team need somewhere to relax and ‘ get their wind ’ after a damn good session on the river . |
| 11 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 12 | But , despite his popularity and wealth of talent , Moss never won coveted World Drivers ' Championship and is , undoubtedly , the greatest driver never to have won the title . |
| 13 | Dispirited and half-starving , the population was in no state to weather the greatest catastrophe ever to strike the Old World : the Black Plague of 1111 . |
| 14 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 15 | Environment Minister Lady Blatch signs on the dotted line today to endorse £40m of Government cash for Middlesbrough 's City Challenge plans . |
| 16 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 17 | This study involves asking subjects to perform the dot location task and another task accessing the right hemisphere simultaneously to look for reduction in left field advantage for the dot location task a result . |
| 18 | Absolutely I mean i the the the trouble I 'd find it is is is the right way round to tackle it . |
| 19 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 20 | The left margin only : tap Enter ; then tap a cursor ( direction ) key to cancel the highlight Both margins : tap the Right key twice to select right indent : |
| 21 | Tap the Right key once to move to the with text : prompt |
| 22 | Tap the Right key once to skip to : right : 1.25 ″ . |
| 23 | If they are not , Mrs Thatcher will either have to reconsider her faith in the private sector always to do what she deems to be the right thing , or she will have to promote changes in the way in which the markets go about their business . |
| 24 | In the I970s the fuel boards were pressured by the Labour government not to disconnect households with children providing they would cooperate in paying off their arrears . |
| 25 | It is used by the Conclave of Cardinals to choose a Pope , by the Democratic and Republican Conventions in the United States to choose a presidential candidate , and by the Labour Party both to choose a Leader and to elect local officers . |
| 26 | As I understand it , he is saying that it is the official policy of the Labour party not to build the fourth boat and that his only reservation arises from the fact that certain clauses in the contract might make cancellation commercially prohibitive . |
| 27 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
| 28 | The cost of a range of goods and services remained unchanged , however , this list including medical supplies , petrol and electricity , and also coffee and vodka ( the controversial decision not to raise the vodka price was justified in terms of preventing an upsurge in illegal distillation , as had happened when the price had been raised during the anti-alcohol campaign started in 1985 — see p. 35844 ) . |
| 29 | In the confusion following Belgium 's partial withdrawal from its colony , the UN force was at first given the foolish order not to shoot unless attacked . |
| 30 | The Labour leader , John Smith , is believed to have told the Scottish leadership not to support any efforts to set up a Scottish parliamentary council and Mr Clarke 's proposals are intended to maintain Lib Dem support for the convention . |