Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bush administration 's revision of its Indo-China policy was designed to forestall a possible congressional rebellion over the issue . |
| 2 | The Bush administration 's revision of its Indo-China policy was partly designed to forestall a potential congressional rebellion over the issue . |
| 3 | The action demonstrated the belief that Korea was ready for independence and was intended to forestall a lengthy American occupation or the Americans advancing Koreans of their own choice . |
| 4 | This senseless slaughter takes place merely to try to catch a few extra tuna , and in fact the tuna caught through this method amounts to only about 5 per cent of the world 's total catch . |
| 5 | A bonfire on the beach tonight when it 'll be too dark for my eye to catch a few stray words of love . |
| 6 | It wanted to catch a fat little pig for its supper . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe you need to try a different visual image , or another technique ? |
| 8 | I recommend it particularly for Sunday lunch with visitors from abroad whose eagerness to try a proper British pudding might grow a little faint if faced with a hefty suet pudding or steamed sponge . |
| 9 | The long-serving boss was adamant that he wanted total commitment and effort in the build-up to the tie , which is expected to attract a 2,500 all-ticket crowd to College Road . |
| 10 | The long-serving boss was adamant that he wanted total commitment and effort in the build-up to the tie , which is expected to attract a 2,500 all-ticket crowd to College Road . |
| 11 | It had once been possible to trust a few Fascist families , especially those who had sons who had deserted from the army on 8 September ; but that was changing . |
| 12 | In 1975 , he helped to found a new anti-EEC party , Scottish Conservatives Against the Treaty of Rome , and was appointed an honorary vice-president along with his then fellow Scottish Tory MP , Teddy Taylor , |
| 13 | The idea of going into the deserts of the north to found a new religious colony had no attraction for him , and he was beginning to think that , for all the patina of civilisation which he had reassumed , Surere 's years of imprisonment had cost him his reason . |
| 14 | I 've decided to found a new literary prize , the William Boot Award for Fuzzy Copywriting . |
| 15 | He first came to prominence as a speaker when he joined the British Union of Fascists , founded by Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , after some years at Birkbeck College where he obtained a first-class honours degree in English , and he helped to found a National Socialist party in London . |
| 16 | Attempts to determine effective Community policies in the social , regional and environmental areas face many problems ( see Chapters 6 , 7 and 8 ) , and the creation of macro-economic policies to encourage a stable European economy is connected to EMU which has significantly large economic and political implications ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 17 | Brewers may add sugar to encourage a strong secondary fermentation and also additional hops to give the finished beer a pleasant hoppy aroma . |
| 18 | To encourage a systematic planned approach to training including the provision of adequate resources in terms of time , money and skills . |
| 19 | Seek to encourage a positive public perception of the engineer 's role in the management of risk . |
| 20 | In moves explicitly intended to encourage a French diplomatic posture more flexible than that of the USA and the UK , the Iraqi authorities ( i ) released nine French hostages on Oct. 1 ; and ( ii ) approved on Oct. 23 the release of all remaining French nationals , 267 of whom arrived in Paris early on Oct. 30 . |
| 21 | The secret decision to continue producing the new generation of so-called ‘ binary ’ nerve gas weapons would also seem to preclude a Bush-inspired bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to start reducing their arsenals of chemical weapons before the new global treaty is concluded . |
| 22 | A BID by 1,000 battle games fans to re-enact a 1642 Civil War clash ended with 19 of them hurt and five in hospital . |
| 23 | We are much more ready to accept a fact- presupposing explanation of the meaning , in terms of the earth 's revolving on its axis , and so on , than to accept what Ryle would call a ‘ Fido ’ — Fido' explanation . |
| 24 | There was considerable variation in the tolerance to the procedure with one patient able to accept a 52 minute rotation time . |
| 25 | The most practical approach is to accept a permanent low incidence of various plant pests , and prevent serious problems from arising by growing healthy plants that tolerate normal pest populations . |
| 26 | The British people are not willing to accept a sham royal marriage or a non-taxpaying monarch . |
| 27 | The realisation that Britain would not be obliged to accept a single European currency may dampen the opposition at Westminster . |
| 28 | And if Dorothea is too good to accept a few semi-precious brooches and earrings , if you are too sensitive to wear them , very well , I will have them and I will wear them . |
| 29 | Still greater than these difficulties was Bonar Law 's stubborn ( and in many ways sensible ) resolve not to accept a massive continuing burden . |
| 30 | It is probably correct , nevertheless , to accept a dominant religious function for those sites where there is either a multiplicity of temples or a religious precinct with associated facilities . |