Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not regard money as the only measure of success . |
| 2 | The learner is enabled to edit and modify text in the same way , say , as an adult journalist would . |
| 3 | Having settled the principle , the partners must make provision for the actual event . |
| 4 | The terms and conditions should make provision for the following items . |
| 5 | A student who is told to " make notes on the diplomatic arrangement that followed the Napoleonic Wars " may use these simple techniques to create the following structure : |
| 6 | We note with approval the Management Group decision to speedily make copies of the non-confidential parts of their Minutes accessible to staff through deposit in the Library and the specialist gardens . |
| 7 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
| 8 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 9 | We shall assume that g is known and we shall treat g as the predictable component of monetary growth ; on the other hand , v t is not known and is therefore the unpredictable component . |
| 10 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 11 | China also ‘ could not tolerate ’ the award given to the Dalai Lama in Paris , and ‘ condemned ’ France for permitting the exiled democracy campaigner , Yan Jiaqi , to ‘ conduct activities against the Chinese Government ’ . |
| 12 | The position , as the Government have repeatedly made clear , is that trusts will remain part of the national health service . |
| 13 | Everyone does not regard noise in the same way . |
| 14 | How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank ? |
| 15 | The Northern regional director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund paid tribute to the region 's fund raisers who helped the charity make £635,000 in the past year . |
| 16 | That the arbitrageur can lend money at the riskless rate of interest appears sensible , but it is more questionable to assume that he or she can borrow at the riskless rate ( although if the marginal arbitrageur is a large financial institution , the assumption may be reasonable ) . |
| 17 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 18 | Theodora really does make attempts on the Christian life , Julia thought . |
| 19 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 20 | I do n't understand your argument that having an E two type policy and without prejudice to what it may say , will make discussions at the local plan level about where boundaries are , more difficult or less difficult . |
| 21 | Sir Denys Henderson would remain chairman of the two groups . |
| 22 | The distributaries will build levees of the coarser parts of their load , while the areas between will be occasionally flooded , built up with finer sediments , converted into swamps and so become sites of the formation of peats and organic muds . |
| 23 | When he can make steps in the forward direction , you may be shown how he can use the lowest stair to practise stepping downwards while taking his weight through his hemiplegic leg and then through the normal leg . |
| 24 | We should not grant recognition to the Baltic states or any other So Soviet Republics unless they guarantee human rights ? |
| 25 | The ban will cover cod on the eastern Scotian shelf off Nova Scotia , the southern Gulf of St Lawrence , the Sydney Bight area off Cape Breton and the south coast of Newfoundland . |
| 26 | I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence . |
| 27 | Other public policies may also influence investment in the private sector . |
| 28 | Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value ; Charles had confirmed that a friendly relationship existed between the great kingdom of the Franks and Rome , and that a pope could make demands upon the Frankish king in full expectation of support and response — perhaps even of obedience . |
| 29 | Whereas the excavation of settlements can throw light on the useful activities of ancient societies , it is from burials not previously looted by treasure-seekers that archaeologists have recovered artefacts shaped by the finest craftsmen from the most precious substances , veritable trophies of the forces of emulation responsible for the rise of human civilizations . |
| 30 | But this principle on account of its very generality can not throw light on the above distinction , and as a result the concept of individuality remains ambiguous and obscure . |