Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more remunerative price structure for agricultural products and other measures to raise incomes for the poorest may encourage the use of purchased alternative fuels other than wood or cowdung . |
| 2 | The political can retain an ethical foundation : Levinas finds his example for this , unexpectedly , in Marx 's famous comment on idealist philosophers — that the point is not to describe the world but to change it : |
| 3 | Victories would put the Irish on 17 points , Denmark on 16 with Spain still on 13 although the Spanish would have a game in hand . |
| 4 | The righteous need have no fears . |
| 5 | One of their champions the prominent politician Jack Ashley , who remains an elected Member of Parliament after having been deafened at the age of forty-five , expressed their feelings in a speech delivered in 1973 : the deaf must adopt a very different attitude to society as a whole … |
| 6 | The transaction 's commercial object was that the Prudential would acquire a development being carried out by the developers with funds provided by the Prudential . |
| 7 | The weak can overcome the strong . |
| 8 | In 1377 the tax had been levied at 4d. a head , in 1379 it had been graduated and in December 1380 Parliament granted a further tax at 1s. a head , and although suggestions were made that the rich should help the poor to meet this heavy burden , one suspects that these were largely unheeded . |
| 9 | Without some such law the rich could hold the poor to ransom . |
| 10 | and the rich will buy a house in this area , like you have Embassy people |
| 11 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 12 | It would be wrong to assert that Ayrshire 's claim to Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme can be substantiated beyond reasonable doubt but only the foolish would ridicule the ancient legend . |
| 13 | And those firms that , in addition to the training programme for their own workers , initiate programmes within their companies to train the unemployed would receive a further rebate . |
| 14 | If £20 were to be the standard fee , which I support , then OAPs and the unemployed could get a £10 discount . |
| 15 | It shows that the older , ‘ high ’ view of the Church had survived and that not all Nonconformist chapels could be lambasted as mere preaching barns in which the faithful could hear the minister dilate on the role religion could play in politics . |
| 16 | A reading which is faithful to the writerly will avoid the closure of static structures ; reading a text in Barthesian terms does not lead to the construction of ‘ a Model ’ or a ‘ legal structure of norms or infractions ’ , a narrative or poetic law , but opens ‘ a perspective ( of fragments , of voices from other texts , other codes ) , whose vanishing point is nonetheless ceaselessly pushed back , mysteriously opened ’ ( p. 12 ) . |
| 17 | The close association between the visual and the cultural may explain the reluctance of some teachers to give it much attention . |
| 18 | If the English would execute the son of Sir Alexander Seton , a noted Scots knight , would they hesitate over ordinary townsfolk ? |
| 19 | He was enthralled by the entire proceeding and remarked that only the English could make a contest between two crews which would not rank in the World 's top 10 into a bigger spectacle than the Olympic final . |
| 20 | The English could have no idea , Bryher maintained , that America had a climate that varied from that of Norway to that of a Spanish summer , that much of America was made up of monotonous stretches of unbroken country , and that there were parts where only Swedish is spoken and others where seventeenth-century English remained almost intact . |
| 21 | Needless to say , on recordings which have a substantial musical output below 50Hz — the organ perhaps the prime example — the effect is felt as well as heard since the 103/4 can move a great deal of air . |
| 22 | Although it is a group undertaking , the residential will provide the means for students to be assessed and to assess themselves as individuals . |
| 23 | ‘ Remember the meek shall inherit the earth . ’ |
| 24 | If sufficient forces could be raised at short notice , the robbed would pursue the robbers on ‘ hot trod ’ , with the right to reclaim their goods by force and deal with the wrongdoers out of hand . |
| 25 | In many cases the key requirement is that the bioceramic should become an intimate part of the tissue it is replacing . |
| 26 | An irritated Dutch official said : ‘ If the Danes can do it with a referendum by July , I do not see why the British would need a longer time . ’ |
| 27 | The British must refine a new history curriculum to show the national genius and thus the inferiority of all others , and do so in the face of the sleepy yawns of the poor pupils . |
| 28 | Not even the British could stomach the sight of the King and Queen arriving at a Coronation in separate carriages . |
| 29 | The policies pursued were not always pleasing to Washington , and showed that the British could have a mind of their own . |
| 30 | The upshot , however , was that the British could buy the latest mark of Polaris missile without warheads , which they would provide themselves , and could fit them into five British-built nuclear submarine hulls . |