Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [unc] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the Premier 's efforts to keep the Gatt talks on track have opened up the prospect of a world trade deal . |
| 2 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ Such freedom for Britain and France would stymie the EEC 's efforts to ensure equitable shares of fuel if shortages occur in future . ’ |
| 4 | The chairman of the CITB , Sir Clifford Chetwood , made a statement in July this year in which he announced some of the board 's projects to stimulate training . |
| 5 | Later , however , she resisted the creditor 's attempts to enforce the security on the ground , first , that the document was void as being an unregistered bill of sale and , secondly , that she had been procured to sign by her husband 's undue influence and had had no independent advice . |
| 6 | Lord sainsbury and representatives of the store gathered in the hospice 's gardens to present a cheque for £2 , OOO raised through the Penny Back Scheme , collections in the foyer and a sponsored walk . |
| 7 | However , so far the attitude has tended to be sympathetic — it is not , after all , in the creditors ' interests to exclude a member and thereby reduce earning potential . |
| 8 | It may well be in the defenders ' interests to consider a minimum Tender justifiable , with some educated guess work , on the scraps of information available , in the expectation that if the pursuer is not to accept the Tender , further vouching will have to be produced . |
| 9 | The Act aimed to reinforce rather than to diminish parental responsibility by requiring the presence of parents in court and by increasing the courts ' powers to require parents to pay fines for their children 's offences . |
| 10 | Instead , the evidence strongly suggested that the higher imprisonment rate in England and Wales was brought about by the courts ' decisions to commit a greater number of people to prison , both on remand and also under sentence . |
| 11 | For discussion of the clerk 's powers to accept or refuse an application under this section . |
| 12 | For those ‘ Old Fighters ’ who had been enthusiastic Hitler supporters even before the demise of the Weimar Republic , for the direct beneficiaries of Nazism — the careerists , power-seekers , and apparatchiks who had the Third Reich to thank for their offices and careers in Party and State , and for the ideologically committed who had ‘ burnt their boats ’ with the Nazi regime , the belief in the Führer 's powers to bring about a miracle and achieve final victory in the face of all the odds was the blind faith rooted in self-interest and fear of the future . |
| 13 | The second main proposal relates to the buyer 's rights to reject the goods and to treat the contract as repudiated because of a breach of one of the conditions in sections 13–15 . |
| 14 | It may be that there is some delay after completion , which makes it impossible for the buyer 's conveyancers to lodge their transfer within the period of priority . |
| 15 | There was still over an hour to go before his rendezvous with Rose and he decided to walk around the jewellers ' shops to find something he could afford . |
| 16 | Next day , in her usual riding class , Evelyn was given one of the beginners ' ponies to ride ; not because she had become ‘ big-headed ’ over night , but because her instructor had spotted one weakness in her riding . |
| 17 | Mr Ram said that in the interests of press freedom he was offering The Hindu 's reports to rival newspapers . |
| 18 | This allowed the AP1-88 's designers to use a heavier structure . |
| 19 | Dr Duncan Macmillan said he was supporting the university 's proposals to sell either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael , because of a desperate need to raise money for the care of the remainder of the collection . |
| 20 | And the Hammers ' efforts to find an equaliser met stern resistance , until Morley produced his high-quality goal 15 minutes from time . |
| 21 | One game , called Net Trek , which has recently made the transition from PD to commercial product , uses sounds sampled from the Star Trek television series to accompany the user 's attempts to pilot around a galaxy of other Mac users , when all the machines are connected together by the network . |
| 22 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
| 23 | His theory is in stark contrast to the biologists ' attempts to find a relationship between the prohibitions on certain types of marriage partner , and the inhibitions about having sexual contact with such classes of people . |
| 24 | In cases considered since Roe , the Supreme Court has generally shown more deference to congressional restrictions than to the states ' attempts to overturn Roe , for example it ruled that public funds may not be used for abortions whether therapeutic or non-therapeutic ( Harris v. McRae 1980 ) . |
| 25 | Testing complicates the issue of fulfilment of the employers ' obligations to provide jobs to successful Compact graduates . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , President Clinton has abolished the Competitiveness Council , a White House agency which , under the chairmanship of former vice-president Dan Quayle , had often blocked the EPA 's efforts to implement environmental protection regulations . |
| 27 | I present five extracts from the college 's aims to give a flavour of our determined commitments , but we recognise that anyone can write rhetoric , so I hope they do not engender cynicism : |
| 28 | In a later meeting between parents and psychologist the former , in response to the psychologist 's efforts to identify/impose a consensus , again attempted to articulate their own understanding of George 's needs . |
| 29 | He also won leave to challenge decisions of the South East Thames regional health authority to allot money to district health authorities for work on proposed trusts , as well as the districts ' decisions to spend such money . |
| 30 | The appropriate change in day length causes the animals ' bodies to produce hormones which activate their reproductive organs . |