Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Are there sufficient staff in the organisation prepared to promote nursing in the local community ? |
| 2 | BANGOR — Coach George Blackwood has captured striker Kerri Kidd ( Ballynahinch ) , Robin Moran ( East Antrim ) and Stephen Cumper ( Cliftonville ) to try consolidate in the top flight . |
| 3 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 4 | We had 160 golfers coming off the course at once to try to change in the little clubhouse . |
| 5 | At every stage , the media must insist upon its right to investigate and to print public interest stories ; if it is right in its identification of the public interest , it is unlikely to come to harm in the long run . |
| 6 | Occasionally , after a dance , they would decide to go swimming in the early hours of the morning , so all the cars would be lined up with their headlamps blazing to light up the pool . |
| 7 | Some years later , when it was apparent that my daughter would not recover from her poliomyelitis , I felt that it would no longer be possible to continue serving in the Royal Navy , which entailed long periods of separation from my home . |
| 8 | The aim of the ‘ new ’ hospital was in part to lessen overcrowding in the other twenty mental hospitals of the region , from which referrals would be taken , and in part to develop specialist methods of treatment for those who did not get better under ordinary therapeutic regimes . |
| 9 | Although the Dons have to sell to survive in the Premier League , they have been alerted they could get £1m-rated Andersson — he scored against Germany in the European Championship semi-finals — for nothing . |
| 10 | According to Dr John Pethick , a coastal geomorphologist at Hull University , the best solution is to avoid building in the worst-affected areas , and to compensate landowners for loss of land to the sea . |
| 11 | By early April large numbers of civilian refugees had crossed into Thailand to avoid fighting in the eastern town of Phaw Hta . |
| 12 | Roughly , unilateralism provides that the plaintiff must win if he or she has a right to win established in the explicit extension of some legal convention , but that otherwise the defendant must win . |
| 13 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
| 14 | I am sure you will agree that it is in the best interests of the traditions of our society that there should be these circumspect checks and controls on what a public authority is permitted to do to interfere in the private lives of individuals , but at the same time it does make it difficult to act promptly and , in certain cases , and this must be one of them , one can only regret the outcome . ’ |
| 15 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 16 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 17 | Producing quality products is important if the company is to continue to compete in the international marketplace . |
| 18 | The company said it was ‘ pointless to continue to compete in the overcrowded , heavily discounted and ultimately unprofitable air package holidays business ’ . |
| 19 | Andrew Johnson , general manager of AA Travel , said : ‘ It frankly became pointless to continue to compete in the overcrowded , heavily discounted and ultimately unprofitable air-package holidays business . ’ |
| 20 | Are they likely to contribute to profit in the long term ? |
| 21 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 22 | is very interested in undertaking the task and if everything falls into place and there are no unforeseen hitches , hopes to start training in the near future . |
| 23 | ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction . |
| 24 | We expect prices to start rising in the late summer or autumn . ’ |
| 25 | The median interval to cord clamping in the random group was 10 seconds , and clamping was within 20 seconds in all but one case ( 25 seconds ) . |
| 26 | The manifesto defends the right to enjoy drinking in the British public house . |
| 27 | ‘ It is important , if you are to continue to live in the same house . ’ |
| 28 | The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle 's started purchasing from outside suppliers . |
| 29 | There was no question of allowing Denmark to continue to accept the terms of EEC membership under pre-Maastricht arrangements but to decline to participate in the new extensions of Community authority spelt out in the Treaty on European Union . |
| 30 | Underbelly staple and nail magazine slides backwards to allow refilling in the conventional way |