Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Elisabeth had been ordered to stand three feet away and witness the murder . |
| 2 | Traffic 's director Jorgen Thomsen draws attention to the responsibility of the tropical timber consuming countries , along with the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) , to find effective solutions rather than leaving the responsibility to the producing countries . |
| 3 | Exclusion clauses may not , therefore , always be effective to modify fiduciary duties so as to avoid conflicts between fiduciary duties and duties imposed by regulatory rules . |
| 4 | Facilities to attract local residents so as to maximize usage of services and facilities . |
| 5 | On a new housing estate the priority task is to establish Christian cells rather than launch into a brick-by-brick building scheme . |
| 6 | But the social-security surplus is having the opposite of its intended effect : in helping the government to evade cutting the deficit , it is reducing national savings , and thereby reducing the country 's ability to support future pensioners rather than increasing it . |
| 7 | Of course , you may prefer to choose outside alliances rather than restrict yourself to the family , but in times of hardship the family may be more dependable . |
| 8 | Duty and intake systems to detect incipient problems early and to provide a rapid response . |
| 9 | RFL principals of an MNP are not prohibited from having separate legal practices as foreign lawyers , but they are obliged to institute certain safeguards so as to ensure that clients of the foreign legal practice do not believe they are receiving services through an MNP . |
| 10 | But now that King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of England he was determined to rule both kingdoms so as to allow no further violence between them . |
| 11 | Sadly , it chooses to evade these issues rather than to confront them . |
| 12 | By displaying numbers in a simple and visually revealing way such as , for example , the graph/table hybrid known as ‘ stem and leaf ’ , it is possible to see obvious patterns quickly and focus harder on more puzzling aspects of the data ( Erickson and Nosanchuk 1977 : 20 ) . |
| 13 | Japan believes the key to better relations with the Europeans is to discuss political issues rather than trade problems . |
| 14 | So GATT has a purpose in trying to sweep these injustices away and achieve a fair balance , if necessary by forcing some countries to cut production . |
| 15 | As we have already stated , it may be possible to use completed documents directly as input to a data dictionary system so that the data is held in a readily-accessible computer format as well as on paper forms . |
| 16 | It seems reasonable to draw these strands together and to presume that considerably more than a thousand teachers are now working in off-site units . |
| 17 | I look to those responsible , including local authorities , to use these resources wisely and to improve the value for money in the services they buy . |
| 18 | Writers , as I 've argued before , tend to use these contradictions rather than try to pretend they 're not there . |
| 19 | To clump fine particles together and assist filtration |
| 20 | The need to educate people , both to use deep-fat fryers properly and to clean and filter oil regularly , is a factor also referred to by sales and marketing director for Garland Catering Equipment , Keith Davies . |
| 21 | Sometimes he had to leave important meetings hurriedly and rush to the lavatory , which he found extremely embarrassing . |
| 22 | Lazarsfeld 's proposal is not to try to resolve methodological problems philosophically but to see what follows by way of research practice if we recognise that we can never investigate phenomena directly . |
| 23 | In his statement , Trafalgar 's chief executive Sir Eric Parker FCA said that ‘ in view of the state of the commercial property market , we decided at the beginning of the year to retain certain properties rather than selling high quality assets at unattractive prices ’ . |
| 24 | Money raised would fund our campaign to lobby relevant authorities internationally and engage in public education . |
| 25 | Money raised would fund our campaign to lobby relevant authorities internationally and engage in public education . |
| 26 | We have already seen that the appearance of Dartmoor is man-made ; following woodland clearance the soil degraded , and eventually blanket bog , and possibly a cooler and wetter climate , led people to abandon permanent settlements there and use the moor solely as temporary seasonal pasture ( and later for mining ) . |
| 27 | Hickson take pride in their ability to solve technical problems quickly while maintaining the highest safety standards . |
| 28 | It was for this reason that Baldwin and McConville ( 1979 ) chose to study real juries rather than follow the example of previous researchers in setting up ‘ mock trials ’ . |
| 29 | So a supplier can then be contractually obliged to solve real problems rather than provide abstract features . |
| 30 | The PA must and will continue to interpret these regulations fairly and deal firmly with any breaches . |