Example sentences of "[noun] to settle [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the meanwhile she took steps to settle in this country and the children were sent to school here . |
| 2 | They also emphasized the " right of Jews to settle in all parts of Greater Israel " , and said that the government would " enhance , expand and develop " Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 3 | Museums should be rewarding learning environments , and any attempt to settle for mass popularity alone is to sell museums short . |
| 4 | The Kayan and the Penan peoples are being encouraged — some would say coerced — into leaving their scattered forest homes and nomadic lives to settle in larger communities where they are given schools and clinics and telephones … and jobs in the timber industry . |
| 5 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 6 | In the late 1890s the so-called ‘ Economists ’ encouraged the workers to settle for piecemeal improvement in their economic conditions , for mere trade unionism , rather than revolutionary struggle against capitalism . |
| 7 | I would ask everyone involved in the game to allow a little time for these changes to settle in both with players and referees . |
| 8 | He said that he would be visiting the Eyas offices within the hour to settle for these shares in person . |
| 9 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 10 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 11 | But the groups had historic scores to settle with each other , some of the nastiest no older than the second world war . |
| 12 | This needs to be placed at the angle which gives the best support for the material being used in relation to the pupil 's vision , and some initial experimenting with different angles of work may be needed in order to settle on this . |
| 13 | On the advice of the aquatic dealer , I allowed the tank to settle for two days , then added five Zebra Danios , five Leopard Danios and five White Clouds . |