Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However in the course of giving the judgment , with which all their Lordships concurred , Lord Diplock stated once again that the result of the Anisminic decision was to render unnecessary the continued distinction between errors of law going to jurisdiction , and errors of law within jurisdiction .
2 From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … .
3 In the Admissibility of Hearings of Petitioners the International Court of Justice advised that oral hearings before the Committee for South West Africa could be granted to inhabitants of the territory to further the development of the international institution , and to render effective the General Assembly 's supervisory role .
4 Senior civil servants and ministers must themselves take initiatives to put right the current barbarities .
5 We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives .
6 When regular radio broadcasting began in 1922 , the press refused at first to publish free the daily programme schedules .
7 The use of a software package such as ‘ Office Power ’ with the ability to generate on-line a standard response to correspondence would dramatically improve the response time in dealing with most enquiries from individual and ensure that a response is made within a matter of days .
8 AN EX-AEROSPACE executive hopes to re-establish talks with British Aerospace this week to keep alive a British bid for the 125 business jet .
9 A FORMER British Aerospace executive hopes to hold talks with the company this week to keep alive a British bid for the 125 business jet .
10 Next in popularity were the various almanacs Professor Harrison has described as having " catered to the needs of a great part of the nation , and their peculiar form served to keep alive the ancient traditions of folk astrology " .
11 Because the international reputation of the University is firmly based on its achievement in research and the advancement of knowledge , it is particularly anxious to welcome postgraduates , many of whom will follow careers to keep alive the great traditions of scholarship .
12 It was as irrational as it was melodramatic , but so was the darkened room where for nearly thirty years Alfred had striven to keep alive the great illusion of his youth .
13 One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion .
14 I would like to end with a plea to all those out there of similar mind to keep alive the trivial names , the odd stories , the quirky characters and the strange anecdotes , and to pass these on to the next generation with a simple message .
15 These developments may have been in keeping with the new vision of Empire , but they did nothing to keep alive the Christian symbolism of death as the gateway to life .
16 As a result there ceases to exist unalloyed the direct feedback , characteristic of primitive societies , between natural conditions and consciousness .
17 Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues .
18 Doctrines of governmental restraint are those which deny the government 's right to pursue certain valuable goals , or require it to maintain undisturbed a certain state of affairs , even though it could , if it were to try , improve it .
19 I believe that many visitors would like to have available a short paper about the early history to enable them to derive greater enjoyment from their stay and I hope those who want to know more will be stimulated to consult the Inventory .
20 Explaining his decision , he originally felt that he ‘ would be very unlikely ever to have available the full weight of a team and a manufacturer to give me what should be a reasonable opportunity ( to win the championship ) . ’
21 When looking at individual assessments it is valuable to have available the whole armoury of tools provided by the computer , in order to satisfy the marker 's ad hoc needs for further information .
22 He caused a sensation at Maisons-Laffitte in April when making the most of a falsely-run race and heavy ground to beat Zafonic a short head .
23 He caused a sensation at Maisons-Laffitte in April when making the most of a falsely-run race and heavy ground to beat Zafonic a short head .
24 For behaviour has both been less studied than some parts of morphology , and its inheritance is generally too complex to lay bare the elementary principles .
25 So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) .
26 Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it .
27 It must in fact plunge into the heart of the matter in order to lay bare the fundamental conditions which made it all even possible .
28 ‘ It marks the first genuine attempt to bring alive the remarkable range of heritage and culture which has sustained the area for hundreds of years . ’
29 The conditional projections made in 1969 by David Butler and Donald Stokes about the differential fertility — death rates between the social classes , combined with the transmission of political loyalties from parents to children — appeared to make Labour a natural majority party .
30 Second , to make possible a detailed account of specific changes in villages , over a 35-year period in which Turkey virtually accomplished the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society ; population up by a factor of 2.5 , GNP per capital up by a factor of around 3 ; more than 20 million people recruited into non-agricultural occupations .
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