Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 2 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 3 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 4 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 5 | Unlike the crab louse , the mite of scabies lays its eggs under the skin surface , and to do this it needs to burrow through the thick outer layer of the shin . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it forgot to plan for the needed new council chamber within that civic centre . |
| 7 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 8 | However its ability to carry through the wider social and economic issues that are now central to its agenda has yet to be proven . |
| 9 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 10 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 11 | If the local authority knows that it wishes to privatise and not use local authority employees at all , it does not have to go through the compulsory tender procedure . |
| 12 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 13 | In this case , you have to go through the full manual routine as outlined above , stopping on play-pause and switching back to record-pause when you reach the desired edit-out point on the previous recording . |
| 14 | Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up , you 'll go straight into Windows . |
| 15 | It is possible now to go through the whole liberal arts course at Stanford University without ever reading Shakespeare ( a DWEM ) and there are many musems in the US now which can not contemplate an exhibition without first measuring it up against the PC yardstick . |
| 16 | Anyway , he always told himself that this would be the last time ; this time he would find some really good job in which he would get on really well and his talents would be appreciated and people would like him and he would surprise all his Tormentors , so there would be no reason to go through the whole fraught and sapping business of signing on again . |
| 17 | In other words you essentially had the choice on the spot of saying , ‘ Yes , I certainly did it , and here 's my fiver or whatever it is , ’ or ‘ No I do n't agree with you and I would like to go through the proper judicial procedures . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 19 | If I do not wish to continue after the three monthly issues I will write and let you know within 10 days of receiving my third issue and will not owe you a penny . |
| 20 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 21 | He begins to long for the happy carefree days when he was single . |
| 22 | Since 7 January the 2nd Shock Army , the southernmost element of the Front , had been playing its part in the general Soviet counter-offensive by pushing northwards north-east of Novgorod , trying to pinch off the deep German salient across the Lovat River between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen , and thus to help relieve Leningrad . |
| 23 | Managers need to know about the annual financial cycle , the bureau budget and its management and local authority finance . |
| 24 | We have to know about the various behavioural and physiological changes which occur in difficult situations , and we have to understand adverse effects on body condition , growth , reproduction and so on . |
| 25 | The Doppler shift was used to compensate for the gravitational spectral shift of photons travelling along the tower . |
| 26 | The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules . |
| 27 | I 'm in a position to defeat stereotypes , to work for the greater good for women who do n't enjoy the privileges that I have . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Kinnock , 47 , last month announced her intention to stand for the 1994 European Parliament elections in the South East Wales constituency . |
| 29 | Furthermore , they designed the experiments to ensure the detected events were ‘ space-like separated ’ ; in other words , it was not possible for signals travelling at or below the speed of light to pass between the two measuring devices . |
| 30 | Figure 6.6b shows us the possible routes for trajectories to pass through the four shaded areas . |