Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the strength of feeling in the Lords that the Conservative Government was forced to accept that the existing councillors should remain in office until these authorities came to an end . |
| 2 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 3 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |
| 4 | Without such explanation , of course , it makes it difficult to accept that the same things really are taking place in the different spheres . |
| 5 | First , it is hard to accept that the subsequent payments figure reflects what the organization ‘ cost ’ to run during the year . |
| 6 | But it is not prepared to accept that the mathematical models developed to explain the phenomenon are sufficiently proven . |
| 7 | While I am in agreement with the opinion that during recent rugby contests involving England and France many irresponsible and regrettable actions have been carried out by individuals , I refuse to accept that the French players are always the villains and that the English team are as innocent as the colour of their jersey suggests . |
| 8 | While you 're working that one out , you might like to know that the other things Taylor regrets were the way he handled two television interviews . |
| 9 | Not at all , I thought you might , you remember you had a quick preview of that , a few months ago , and you 'll be pleased to know that the Chief Officers have now decided that the best way of dealing with it is for each , no first of all they decided that they 'll recommend two members for the signing of the charter , that 's the first step , it 's quite a step forward , remembering they . |
| 10 | ‘ I happen to know that the forensic boys have found traces on Ephraim Humphreys 's clothes of fabrics and materials from the Hilaire household . |
| 11 | They need to know that the onerous tasks they are performing are done correctly and are appreciated by line managers . |
| 12 | He wants everyone to know that the Welsh selectors were right to prefer him to Colin Stephens for the game against Scotland . |
| 13 | At this stage , it was also important to establish that the best results would be achieved if a critical and constructive approach was adopted . |
| 14 | The first was to establish that the primary effects of drugs on cells ( here ‘ drug ’ is used in its broader sense ) are in principle fully understandable in terms of the known laws of physical and biological chemistry . |
| 15 | The reply by the AFPFL members of Council was to demand that the Red Flags should be banned . |
| 16 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 17 | But while this explosion of concern for the plight of animals , species and natural habitats may seem new and unprecedented , it is perhaps reassuring to discover that the basic issues involved belong to an ancient tradition . |
| 18 | Such were the exchanges that Boswell , with his ( by our standards ) imperfect means of record , noted down — and even had time to comment that the two men had begun to ‘ agree like brothers , . |
| 19 | Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts . |
| 20 | Napoleon was to find that the best roads in Europe could not create a European market . |
| 21 | Director Terence Young was delighted to find that the two actors seemed intent on working seriously — except for Marvin 's first scene which followed a boozy lunch and featured an equally boozy Marvin . |
| 22 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 23 | When we were recently in the United States I was very pleased to find that the top officials there , including Eagleburger and Robson , advised us not to hurry . |
| 24 | But just at that moment , she felt a tug at her scalp , and turned her head to find that the bony fingers had seized a stray strand of copper hair , pulling it from under her cap . |
| 25 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 26 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 27 | He went on to allege that the Liberal Democrats had received 15 times as much in donations , but refrained from naming names . |
| 28 | Since most promoters can form stable open complexes under the conditions used , the heparin inhibition was interpreted to indicate that the two promoters were forming unstable complexes ( presumably open complexes , since the incubation temperature was 37°C ) . |
| 29 | Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that the following statements made in the directors ' report are unreasonable in all the circumstances : |
| 30 | If the text is accurate , it would seem to indicate that the three kadiliks of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne were all originally registered as 300-akce kadiliks and that their registration had not been changed by Hezarfen 's time , although all three outranked Damascus and Aleppo at least until the eighteenth century . |