Example sentences of "[noun] impose on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life . |
| 2 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 3 | Although there had been considerable growth in Russian manufacturing industry between 1880 and 1914 , by any criteria it was still quite inadequate to cope with the strains imposed on it by modern industrialised warfare . |
| 4 | The timber producing companies , the announcement says , would prefer to be respected for their integrity in the exercise of self-control without conditions imposed on them by other countries . |
| 5 | The other thing , I think , erm I do appreciate that Phyllis has got a terrible problem running the Council with the constraints imposed on her by Central Government , and by and large I think they do it very well , as I have said . |
| 6 | SALMAN RUSHDIE made a dramatic television appeal yesterday for a meeting with the Prime Minister to fortify his campaign to end the fatwa sentence of death imposed on him by Iranian fundamentalists . |