Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the key to the avoidance of uncontrolled complexity in any engineering domain may be to go for a complete and as rigorous as possible a description of the problem in hand before any detailed calculations are made on the precise properties of the postulated design . |
| 2 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 3 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 4 | They also descend into the deeper caverns to search for the wild and exotic funguses which they use to make powerful magic potions . |
| 5 | ‘ The refinancing secures the future operation of the Norsk Data group enabling it to continue as an independent and viable group . |
| 6 | There was intended to be time to descend , to retire through the covert and to supervise the fast , careful infill of stone that would give them their bridge when the walls fell . |
| 7 | Staff have to go through the undignified and anxiety-provoking process of applying for their own jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ I have no wish , ’ his lordship said , ‘ to enter into a quarrel on this our last evening together which we all deserve to enjoy as a happy and triumphant occasion . |
| 9 | Why abandon an opportunity present and promising , to go after a distant and unproven one ? |
| 10 | Indeed the need to know about the earlier and later stages of a child 's education becomes imperative when schools have to plan the next stage of learning on the basis of achievement so far , when teachers have to evaluate and — if appropriate — change their own teaching , when parents have to be told in detail how their children are progressing and when LEAs , parents and governors have to have information which allows the performance of the school as a whole to be evaluated . |
| 11 | Hence Paris modernism was able to persist as a vital and radical force . |
| 12 | For many people there is a temptation to sift through the urgent and important in-trays again looking for the work which they know they can deal with quickly and easily . |
| 13 | Manager Jim McCorry , who twice played against Fermanagh in the championship , is desperately hoping for a prolonged run to compensate for a disappointing and dismal league campaign . |
| 14 | The leading Opposition party organizes a ‘ shadow cabinet ’ to provide for a considered and specialized response to the activities of the government . |
| 15 | All rooms are pleasantly furnished to provide for a relaxed and comfortable stay . |
| 16 | Should the marked chromosome constitute the inactive X , however , it is reasonably easy to observe as the darkest and longest chromosome in the cell . |
| 17 | Illness forced his resignation , but having recovered his health , Cilby resumed work , founding missions in Birmingham , Somerset and Cornwall before going abroad to work for the deaf and dumb in South Africa and in the West Indies . |
| 18 | We will continue to work for the profitable and sustainable future of our fishing fleet . |
| 19 | Divorces rose steadily , though the real acceleration in the divorce rate was to come after the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act of 1 984 which allowed petitioning for divorce after only one year of marriage . |
| 20 | I warn the Secretary of State for Scotland that , when it comes to the urgent task of providing resources for the regeneration of the Lanarkshire economy , he will not be able to hide behind the arrogant and imperious people who run British Steel . |
| 21 | It also has to struggle with the social and economic consequences of the recession vested on the country by central government and of course it is expected this year to meet the costs of what is an unwanted and will be a costly and unsatisfactory reorganisation of local government . |
| 22 | A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that : |
| 23 | It takes the form partly of encouraging them to relate to the personal and subjective while boys begin to grapple with the impersonal and objective . |
| 24 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 25 | To work with a large and complex piece of machinery demonstrates to the rest of the world that the farm worker is both skilled and in the vanguard of scientific progress . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems particularly unfortunate to find within the elegant and modern buildings of Feltham , so carefully landscaped , all the defects of poor regimes ’ ( Home Office 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the launching of the first Trident submarine yesterday , and the fact that three more are under construction , is the minimum insurance policy that the country can afford to accept in a dangerous and uncertain world ? |
| 28 | In the last five years there has been a clear commitment from the Nursery/First , Middle and Comprehensive schools to work in a co-operative and supportive way , resulting in a pyramid of schools developing coherence and continuity for young people in the area from the ages 3–16 . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 30 | Down was one of the outstanding medical students of his generation , and his decision to work in the neglected and perhaps despised field of mental deficiency was courageous . |