Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 2 | To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly . |
| 3 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 4 | There should be a need to reorganize the whole time-scale of a current c , merely to fit the software into the work schedule . |
| 5 | First , it was the gradual transformation of woodlands and grasslands into farmland , and then years later building it up to accommodate the ever-growing influx of people . |
| 6 | The first , ‘ Verifiability ’ ( 1945 ) , suggested modifications of the principle of verification to accommodate the essential indeterminacy of symbolism ( ‘ open texture ’ ) . |
| 7 | Lord Kaldor , for example , has argued that the money supply is passively adjusted to the level required to accommodate the current level of economic activity . |
| 8 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 9 | It was acknowledged , however , not least by the participants , that the agreement was primarily regarded as a means of defusing ethnic tensions and the possibility of civil war rather than as a concrete proposal to accommodate the political aspirations of Moslems , Serbs and Croats . |
| 10 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 11 | a method of spacing whereby each each character is spaced to accommodate the varying widths of letters or figures , so increasing readability . |
| 12 | Pool Table A new slot machine is required to accommodate the altered size of the 10 penny piece . |
| 13 | Pool Table A new slot machine is required to accommodate the altered size of the 10 penny piece . |
| 14 | It 's the one room that has in some way to accommodate the changing interests of all members of the family ; it 's also the room that is most on show , the room where your guests stay the longest . |
| 15 | At first the operations were dropping bomb loads on known terrorist targets but as the communist bandits employed more elusive tactics the air operations had to be restructured to accommodate the changing nature of the communist operations . |
| 16 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 17 | To accommodate the lofty ceilings of some of the main rooms , Lutyens used the traditional architectural solution of inserting extra or mezzanine rooms on all four fronts . |
| 18 | The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants . |
| 19 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 20 | The need to improve boathouses to accommodate the new generation of lifeboats was inextricably linked with the most important factor in getting to a casualty quicker — the increase in the speed of lifeboats — and Mr Vernon confirmed that the Institution is on schedule for its target to have fast lifeboats at all stations by the end of 1993 . |
| 21 | By far the most prominent pattern is represented by the regular development of narrow-fronted strip buildings along the main frontages in such a way as to accommodate the maximum number of properties in the space available . |
| 22 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 23 | This is to accommodate the large range of abundances . |
| 24 | That is precisely why we allow local education authorities the flexibility to devise schemes to accommodate the particular circumstances of small schools and those with very high inherited salary costs . |
| 25 | Recommending that hoop-skirts could be usefully converted into play-pens for children , Punch also pondered on whether Regent Street might have to be widened ‘ in order to accommodate the growing dimensions of the ladies ’ dresses ' . |
| 26 | When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal . |
| 27 | As Myers mentions , there are already some programmes in operation which suggest that the national resource base can be manipulated to accommodate the growing needs of the population without serious impairment of soil fertility . |
| 28 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 29 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 30 | Accordingly , policies were re-written and strategies revised , firstly , to reflect the changes needed if Labour was to be kept at bay , and , secondly , to accommodate the non-Labour supporters of the old Liberal Party within the modern Conservative party . |