Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Membership of the European exchange rate mechanism is seen as the main constraint on all parties , holding back growth and thus reducing the scope for popular moves to cut taxes or increase public spending . |
| 2 | Pure herds were also found in the Isle of Wight and Guernseys also spread to several English and Scottish counties to decorate parkland or supply house milk and butter . |
| 3 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 4 | I , I , I , I think Mr Chairman what I , I think I explained to you what my concern was , that we have cases where there 's a serious road accident , and erm , and the road is stopped , we have no real authority to turn traffic or divert traffic , but the , the police are the only ones that can , and if we want to get down in , in , into an emergency very quickly . |
| 5 | Quite simply , these are times when there is more healing to be done , more effort is required by the natural healing powers to maintain order or to put it slightly differently , it is no longer possible for a balance and harmony to be sustained without the production of symptoms of disease . |
| 6 | You also need to be inventive and prepared to look to untried and untested ways to earn money or to make it work for you . |
| 7 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 8 | Royalists might be asked to image what their reaction would be if the monarch started to revive ancient powers to dismiss governments or began refusing to give their assent to acts of parliament . |
| 9 | Walking backwards on their tails and soaring to astonishing heights to nod balls or jump over ropes are common features of public displays . |
| 10 | People who are under medical direction to lose weight or quit smoking may likewise be quite rightly unwilling to give in to their impulses . |
| 11 | It could also be construed as a naturalistic rival to supernatural religion , in that it presented the world as a closed system in which the deity was little more than a physical hypothesis to explain motion or change — a world in which there was no room for a higher human destiny . |
| 12 | I know of no plans by the British nuclear industry to abandon reprocessing or to store fuel for 100 years . |
| 13 | A referendum was allowed under Philippine law to overturn legislation or to amend the Constitution if at least 3,000,000 signatures , amounting to 10 per cent of the 30,000,000 electorate , could be gathered in support of it . |
| 14 | On the night of April 27/28 , 1942 , a force of 31 Halifaxes from 10 , 35 and 76 Squadrons and 12 Lancasters from 44 and 97 Squadrons flew up Faetten Fjord in a desperate attempt to inflict damage or sink the Tirpitz . |
| 15 | When the chairman of the inquiry into the King 's Cross Underground fire made his report he was strongly critical of London Underground 's management ( the two top men quit hours before the report was published ) : ‘ An inward looking approach fostered by the organisation 's narrow horizons undoubtedly led to a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency which included a general unwillingness to take advice or accept criticism from outside bodies . ’ |
| 16 | He said ‘ We are approaching the situation where the ‘ mixed-economy ’ will mean public money funding private profit with little or no statutory provision to provide choice or help to set standards . ’ |
| 17 | The Attorney-General has no statutory right to preview programmes or to see transcripts or articles in draft , and if the rule against prior restraint were honoured in breach of confidence cases he would have to await publication before deciding whether the public interest required action . |
| 18 | It may even present a comic , frivolous or bawdy joke to arouse laughter or attempt to reveal the workings of a composer 's mind . |
| 19 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |
| 20 | Conformity with observations about the interdependence between mind function and brain function does not support the claim of the neurophysiological CTP to explain mind or point the way to such an explanation . |
| 21 | ‘ The 1991 Dangerous Dog Bill already gives the Secretary of State a reserve power to impose muzzling or leashing on other types of dogs when they are considered to present a serious danger to the public . |
| 22 | An underlying reluctance to accept change or try out new activities is so well hidden and overcome that she is extremely optimistic and positive when taking decisions and initiating projects . |
| 23 | Wear loose fitting clothes to ease pressure or rubbing on the rash . |