Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first commercial companies to follow suit were public utilities such as some railway and gas companies , which started pension schemes for their clerical staff from the 1840s onwards . |
| 2 | With respect to insider trading in particular , the necessity for appropriate supervision to prevent violations is evident in view of the special opportunities in this area . |
| 3 | So if that if that 's a right angle only if it 's a right angle cos Pythagoras 's theorem does n't work if it 's not then we 've got the easy way to remember Pythagoras is long equals medium plus short . |
| 4 | It has not always been obvious that the natural way to classify animals was hierarchical . |
| 5 | HOUSING minister Sir George Young will today be urged to adopt a five-year plan to help London 's homeless . |
| 6 | But anybody expecting the G7 to meet the Gulf war with a bold plan to stabilise currencies was disappointed . |
| 7 | Donald Gould believes that some heroic attempts to save life are misguided |
| 8 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 9 | The historical origins of the rule that there is no general duty to provide reasons are obscure . |
| 10 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 11 | Mean time to achieve remission was similar in both groups ( steroids : 2.0 ( 1.0 ) weeks v PEN : 2.4 ( 1.2 ) weeks ; p=0.47 ) . |
| 12 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 13 | A SURGE in American exports to record levels was responsible for a dramatic improvement in February 's trade deficit to the lowest level in nearly nine years . |
| 14 | That this is a determined attempt to restrict access is obvious from the efforts being made by the opposition to raise funds to have the protection of the Rights of Way Act removed . |
| 15 | The Company was not powerful enough to go inland and kidnap slaves , and had great difficulty keeping up its coastal garrisons in the unpleasant and unhealthy conditions in which they lived , but in any case , military expeditions to capture slaves were unnecessary . |
| 16 | Effective programme formulation and implementation by government to provide external inputs to appropriate skills is essential for local participation and implies effective and coordinated administration , and so on . |
| 17 | Mr Yavlinsky , talking to The Economist , conceded that Mr Bradley 's doubts on the capacity of the Soviet economy to distribute aid were valid . |
| 18 | Similarly , the documentation of the ability of families or carers of mentally handicapped people to provide care is scant . |
| 19 | However , officials working on EC foreign policy co-operation discouraged any suggestion that either a statement or a special meeting to consider Panama was likely in the near future . |