Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greater use of charges and the use of parental contributions to purchase quite basic school equipment discriminates against poor children and schools in poor areas . |
| 2 | TWO British housewives beat hundreds of professional cooks to pick up first and second prizes in the Indian Chef of the Year contest . |
| 3 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 4 | Events in Oxford and Bridgewater should have told him otherwise — as should the call , by representatives of 120 local Labour Parties meeting to discuss Spain , for Labour to take the initiative in forming an alliance of progressive forces to bring down Chamberlain . |
| 5 | Why could n't you break the power of the Treasury and get your beloved Department of Economic Affairs to take off ? |
| 6 | The regular production of films featuring these performers gave their production companies some sort of economic foundation to build on , as well as allowing producers like Balcon and Dean a glimpse of what a popular British cinema might achieve . |
| 7 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 8 | We shall be extending our research on the design of economic policy to consider how to make policy more robust , to allow for different degrees of credibility and to include the effects of incomplete knowledge about the economy and the intentions of the Government . |
| 9 | The obsession , for instance , with snapping endless portraits of complete strangers to take back home as mementoes struck them as particularly humorous . |
| 10 | The moth 's surest means of staying alive , therefore , is not to be detected ; and it has the advantage of advance warning to keep out of the way . |
| 11 | He had two almost contemporary biographies and a wealth of oral tradition to draw on , and out of these materials he made a lively and dramatic portrait , full of sentiment and warmth , which easily outdistanced in popularity the biographies written by later writers who tried to do better . |
| 12 | In an effort to separate the issues Reynolds decided on April 7 to call a referendum later in the year on the right of pregnant women to travel abroad for abortions and to receive information in Ireland on the availability of abortions abroad . |
| 13 | Pluralist theories allow for greater scope for individuals , but they also have a far narrower conception of ‘ the political ’ in society These studies tend to focus almost exclusively on the constitutionally legitimised areas of political action to discover where power lies . |
| 14 | You thus end up with a whole batch of specific tasks to carry out , some over several months , even years . |
| 15 | Given that he thinks he can demonstrate , easily demonstrate the advantages of representative governments to show why |
| 16 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 17 | Where even these devices prove insufficient to ensure subservience , there is ample reserve of armed force to do so , both within the satellites and in the USSR itself . |
| 18 | ( If you have been stimulated by all this consideration of hypothetical possibilities to find out what relationships actually hold between sex , job type and absenteeism , you might like to read Chadwick-Jones et al. |
| 19 | One of the principal factors causing the growth in church planting activity to dry up in other situations is the lack of full-time leaders to take on the work . |
| 20 | Police are appealing for the owners of hundreds of stolen items to come forward and claim their property . |
| 21 | Current records managers and archivists must not allow the limits of their imagination to constrain the kinds of information they preserve because historians may wish to tap a wide range of possible sources to build up different views of the past . |
| 22 | Information on matters like drug and solvent abuse is widely available and will also tell you what signs of possible abuse to look out for . |
| 23 | The Finance Ministry proposed a range of possible measures to turn round failing enterprises , covering a spectrum from the introduction of outside management teams to liquidation . |
| 24 | Perhaps the work-load is high at the time , looking at the map and the ground for possible clues as to where they are , looking for signs of possible lift to climb in , together with all the other little worries involved in a field landing . |
| 25 | On occasions where this is felt to be a risk , preventive apologies may be issued in the form of prolonged negotiations to meet again soon . |
| 26 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 27 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 28 | And usually a loaf of fresh bread to make up the weight . |
| 29 | The nation now has a quarter of a century 's worth of anti-poverty experiments to draw on . |
| 30 | There are numerous places of historical interest to visit nearby including Tintern Abbey , a 12th-century Cistercian abbey , and Caldicot , Raglan , and Penow Castles . |