Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their layered structure and microscopic size 100 times smaller than a skin cell — enable the liposome to penetrate into the epidermis easily and integrate with the intercellular tissue . |
| 2 | One moment of madness by Norwich goalkeeper Bryan Gunn resulted in the penalty which earned the Swiss the draw they craved , leaving the Scots to reflect on a missed opportunity to stay on the fringe of the qualifying race . |
| 3 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 4 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 5 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 6 | They were the traditional way for the rich to travel by water — and in Egypt everyone travelled by water . |
| 7 | It has been the growth in tax allowances that has allowed the rich to hide behind a smokescreen of high marginal tax rates , while , in reality paying an average rate far below that of many ordinary households ( see the answer given to Gordon Brown MP above , in ‘ Tax Benefits ’ , p. 99 ) . |
| 8 | Few questions ask the rich to struggle through the problems of the poor . |
| 9 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 10 | Suggestions of obligating the unemployed to work for their benefits are quite in keeping for a Government which has done virtually everything else it can to ensure that millions of Britons will work for derisory incomes . |
| 11 | John Major , the British prime minister , created a political storm recently when he seemed in a speech to be supporting the idea of workfare — requiring the unemployed to work in exchange for benefits . |
| 12 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 13 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 14 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 15 | The failure of the English to intervene at St Andrews , however , brought no general relief to the Scots . |
| 16 | Addressing the public stigma of mental illness , which permits the unscrupulous to collude with vulnerable patients , is another . |
| 17 | Linggajati enabled the British to leave with a good grace , and the last units were withdrawn by 30 November 1946 . |
| 18 | The major point of conflict was the means of determining whether or not a defendant was guilty , not the definition of criminal offences or the failure of the British to take into account status differentials . |
| 19 | On the other he argued that it was " basically unhealthy " for the United States to continue to press the British to live beyond their means . |
| 20 | These gains were the by-products of a war fought mainly for reasons connected with the balance of power in Europe , but they were attractive enough to encourage the British to think about further involvement outside Europe . |
| 21 | ‘ It took a war to compel the British to look at themselves and find themselves interesting , ’ Dilys Powell was later to remark . |
| 22 | We 've got the French to thank for the explosion of patterned underthings in the 1980s . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm told the Peer does n't expect the French to move till July . ’ |
| 24 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 25 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 26 | The Djibouti government , he said , had never asked the French to mediate with the FRUD ; they had merely been asked to honour the mutual defence agreement signed between the two countries in 1977 , which they had singularly failed to do in the face of the FRUD " invasion " . |
| 27 | The botanist J. D. Hooker postulated a massive extension of land in the Antarctic to account for the similarity of plants between New Zealand , South America and the islands of the remote south . |
| 28 | This late start in railway communication with the outside world enabled Broadstairs and the Imperial to gain from the benefits of visitors , while still maintaining their reputation for selectness . |
| 29 | Thatcher , in Japan , hobnobbed with Sumo wrestlers , adjured the Japanese to invest in Britain and moved on to China . |
| 30 | To prevent the Japanese from ‘ dumping ’ , the commission estimates Japanese production costs every quarter and then forces the Japanese to price above these estimated costs . |