Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a charge is made to someone on income support , this reduces the income available to pay for basic necessities . |
| 2 | This led to the development of widespread commuting , the importance of improving public transport , and increased isolation for the housewife unable to escape from her suburban house . |
| 3 | Soil around the bunker and on top of the slab provides further protection and makes the base difficult to see from the air . |
| 4 | The tenor of his argument was that the Parliament due to meet in February 1545 could not provide enough money in time . |
| 5 | we could see it all set in the in the kitchen ready to put in the oven you know . |
| 6 | The chosen redesigners were Information Design unit of Newport Pagnell , UK ; and we asked them to make The Lancet easier to read by attention to the typography , layout , and production techniques . |
| 7 | Mitchell poised by the entrance ready to respond to any threat . |
| 8 | So we need to identify to what extent the o the quotes problem erm is cau is , is skewing the figures primarily to be able to get a forecast view of , okay what 's the overtime likely to do over the year ? |
| 9 | Molly and Hugh sat on the terrace unable to concentrate on anything else . |
| 10 | Weed control must have been a major problem for a one pass cultivation system before the development of herbicides , and the extra weight of the rotor unit and the engine must have made the plough difficult to handle at the headlands . |
| 11 | Where state ownership is not at issue , they can be neutral , leaving the sector free to respond to market forces and to the general , national policies . |
| 12 | ( iii ) Denial to the council of the right to sue in libel would still leave the council free to proceed for damages in an action for malicious falsehood and to invoke , if they could , the law of criminal libel . |
| 13 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 14 | It would be a matter for the Council concerned to decide in er itself what it wanted to do with them . |
| 15 | To make the machine easy to handle for those perhaps unused to petrol-engined tools , McCulloch has incorporated several useful features . |
| 16 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 17 | But within the first interpretation of the term , many authors have emphasized how the increase in the number of legal statutes makes the law impractical to apply in every case , so that Sheehe has calculated that only one offence in every 7,600 is detected ( see Dix and Layzell 1983 : 7 ) . |
| 18 | The programme for 1988/89 is organised so as to maintain the flexibility necessary to allow for the covering of new research results and to enable distinguished overseas visitors to present papers to the Group . |
| 19 | Many new farmers leave the village poor to fend for themselves . |
| 20 | What might be seen to be a hurdle is that the ‘ likely adverse effects on the animals concerned ’ will be weighed against ‘ the benefit likely to accrue as a result of the programme ’ ( 5.4 ) . |
| 21 | The debate was concluded , and the Question necessary to dispose of the proceedings was deferred , pursuant to paragraph ( 4 ) of Standing Order No. 52 ( Consideration of estimates ) . |
| 22 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 23 | Familiarity with the material generates the skill necessary to distinguish between normal and abnormal development and to assess the developmental stage that the embryos have reached . |
| 24 | Rupert hesitated , unwilling to admit that anthropologists did no good , yet for the moment unable to think of a positive example that would convince her . |
| 25 | Time is required , often to summon the courage necessary to talk about their real problems and difficulties . |
| 26 | IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will . |
| 27 | Pearlin and his colleagues have discussed the effectiveness of commonly used coping responses to various chronic role strains of the sort likely to erupt at any time into major events ( Pearlin and Schooler , 1978 ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The body bold to come across the clearings and at last the the fox is really there . |
| 29 | What on earth is the collector supposed to make of all this , and who should he or she believe ? |
| 30 | Surrounding mountains make the site difficult to evacuate in an emergency and the area lies in an earthquake fault zone , adding to safety concerns . |