Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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1 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
2 | Viewed in this light we consider it important that the movement as a whole should adopt a balanced approach to the problems that have arisen . |
3 | For one thing , the repetition helps to reinforce whatever suggestion he may have been given ; and , for another , I consider it vital that the patient realizes he is playing an extremely significant part in his own cure . |
4 | Given the widespread fragility of confidence in the economic recovery , the directors believe it prudent that the dividend for the year to March 1993 should reflect that year 's results and not be presumptuous as to any future economic upturn . |
5 | Most stockbroking analysts believe it inevitable that the troubled electronics group will be taken over . |
6 | I find it sad that the business of getting practitioners , medical or alternative , to provide evidence of the efficacy of the treatments they use is left largely to consumer organisations , and to a financially hard pressed charity like HealthWatch , which has to step in where the professionals seem afraid to tread . |
7 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
8 | While that 's clearly the most important consideration for each of the districts over the next few months , while the selection process is going on , er bearing in mind what 's said in P P G three , we regard that as axiomatic and I I find it inconceivable that the the department would allow any new settlement to proceed nowadays without the agreement of the district council . |
9 | However , Cannes club captain Luis Fernandez , who claimed to be speaking with the authority of the club 's board , said : ‘ We find it unacceptable that the disciplinary committee refused to accept our evidence and that Louis Niccolin should be judge and plaintiff at the same time . |
10 | X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye . |
11 | I find it extraordinary that the EDDR , planned for over 50 years , has been blocked by the city council . |
12 | Er this being so , I find it extraordinary that the Government has brought forward this proposal . |
13 | Ii also find it appalling that the commission should discriminate between farmers so blatantly . |
14 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
15 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
16 | I find it important that the ‘ ceiling ’ of the cave should be reasonably low and the entrance small , for which reason I usually use broken pots which make for smaller caves . |
17 | The mounting costs to the Health Service make it apparent that the whole system needs some serious re-thinking . |
18 | This pattern and economic and other pressures make it unlikely that the media will acquire ‘ duties and obligations ’ to society unless they are forced to acquire obligations . |
19 | These considerations make it likely that the words quidem quantum ad verba testatoris pertinet are interpolated . |
20 | Their starting-points , their work backgrounds and their position in the education system as users and receivers make it likely that the criticisms of non-teachers as well as their expressions and acts of support will differ from those of teachers . |
21 | These events make it likely that the mobilization of troops on the western borders was designed to keep order among the empire 's non-Russians rather than to prepare the ground for an invasion of central Europe . |
22 | Your task is to clean the underworld of foul beasts and make it inhabitable so the city can be expanded . |
23 | Officials make it clear that the actual cost is not yet known . |
24 | Reports in the previous year that a local man had been killed by the Dutch workforce make it clear that the battles over the digging of the ditches were far from one-sided . |
25 | Such inconsistencies make it clear that the age-regressed person is not actually functioning at the suggested age level , nor is his recollection truly accurate . |
26 | We are readily persuaded to postpone any criticisms we may have of his mode of telling the story , and the next two lines make it clear that the tale is only there to bring out a moral . |
27 | Customs state , in their official publication , Single Market Report ( Special Edition , Christmas 1992 ) , that amendments to the draft regulations make it clear that the register refers only to temporary movements , ie for a period not longer than two years . |
28 | They would have to enter the town , and make their entry apparent to the besiegers , make it clear that the siege could be withstood for long yet , a new spirit of defiance engendered in the defenders . |
29 | These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) . |
30 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |