Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 2 | I keep my distance and do not look at him , though from the comer of my eye I can see him so smartly attired , decked out in scarves and jumpers , set to brace the cold and the street at any hour . |
| 3 | You have to risk the cracking and the warping . |
| 4 | The most significant tax reform in the UK 1989 budget involved changes in the way that the employee share of NICs is levied ( the employer 's share is unchanged ) , and it is interesting to compare the old and the reformed system . |
| 5 | He does not deign to compare the British and the French railways . |
| 6 | The adult workers have to provide the money to support the young and the old , either directly or through Government taxes , allowances and services . |
| 7 | It 's the miracle-madness — those travelling bandits with their gilded snares to catch the ignorant and the innocent . |
| 8 | Is not the truth of the matter that the hon. Gentleman is interested only in using his spurious scares to frighten the sick and the vulnerable for his own party ends ? |
| 9 | Tillich concludes from this that even the most profound expression of compassion within Buddhism can not be compared with agape because it lacks the power to accept the unacceptable and the desire to change man and his society . |
| 10 | The combined effect is to benefit the smaller and the more handicapped farms and MacEwen and Sinclair predict an overall HLCA saving of£3.2 million which could go to upland farms in a range of measures , including the payment of HLCAs on the first 10 dairy cows per farm . |
| 11 | Separate typesetting codes are used to indicate the typesize and the font of the text . |
| 12 | Therefore he strove to understand nature , and had ‘ The habit of wishing to discover the good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me ’ , thereby becoming in touch with ‘ plastic and vast , one intellectual breeze , At once the soul of each , and God of All ’ . |
| 13 | To say that the other can remain absolutely other , that he enters only into the relationship of conversation , is to say that history itself , an identification of the same , can not claim to totalise the same and the other . |
| 14 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 15 | ‘ At the open meeting 24 people volunteered to join our team of 5 to visit the elderly and the housebound . ’ |
| 16 | ARCO invented an imaginative solution to that challenge and , for five successive years from 1988 , bought results by paying for leading collectors and senior museum officials to visit the fair and a city which was becoming one of the most fashionable capitals in Europe . |
| 17 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 18 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 19 | Try the Madeleine ( Magdalene ) at Vézelay on your way , says the author , ‘ for her love , faults are forgiven , the blind see , the dumb speak , the lame walk ’ ; try St Léonard at Noblat who releases captives ; try Saint-Gilles , ‘ speediest of all the saints to help the unfortunate and the afflicted ’ . |
| 20 | In a Christian society , it is a fundamental principle that people help each other , and that the stronger and the wealthier have an obligation to help the weaker and the poorer . |
| 21 | Some workers have recently attempted to combine the statistical and the rule-based approaches in hybrid systems with promising results . |
| 22 | Three police forces have joined together to buy a one and a half million pound helicopter . |
| 23 | There are still many policy makers who do not seem to realise that a fundamental change is in progress , a change which is bound to affect every individual and every social group . |
| 24 | Keening by the side of the corpse , the professional nacarena still howled her tale of the deceased , spinning it out from scraps of information the family had told her , and then delivering it bound and knotted into a customary warp of praise and lamentation with the reassuring catch-phrases that were always used , to level the pleasant and the unpleasant , the cherished and the despised into a democracy of death , making each death absolutely regrettable , knitting up into the web of the dirge the separate individuals of the community . |
| 25 | Now , you find that those mirror images are not superimposable so I can in order to superimpose the red and the white if only I can on doing that , straight away the blue and the green are non-superimposable . |
| 26 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |
| 27 | I have also argued that feminists should be careful not to confuse the linguistic and the metalinguistic , even if the boundary between them is often fuzzy . |
| 28 | Whereas until now the doing of tasks was a public function ( home help , care assistant , district nurse , meals on wheels ) and their integration into an overall care plan was a private function , now the public sector proposes to do the co-ordinating and the private , voluntary and informal will do the actual caring work . |
| 29 | His successor Charles the Good increased his own powers of coercion to protect the weak and the tillers of the soil , while limiting those of others through prohibitions on weapon-carrying in markets or towns , and on the lighting of beacons to signal the start of a private war . |
| 30 | Hierarchy simply served to protect the incompetent and the officious from external control through the mutual support of superiors and subordinates . |