Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Coimbra , accommodation can be arranged either in pensions , hotels or with a family where opportunities to practise are plentiful . |
| 2 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |
| 3 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 4 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 5 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 6 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 7 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 8 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 9 | Moreover , the contribution of developing countries to research is considerable and seldom mentioned . |
| 10 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 11 | The lovers ' attempts to escape are frustrated , but the opera ends happily since the Pasha decides that magnanimity is the best course and releases all of them . |
| 12 | All is not lost for the Albion works , as it supplies axles to DAF 's Belgian factory at Westerlo , which will continue in operation . |
| 13 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 14 | One of the easiest plants to grow is Canadian Pondweed ( Elodea ) . |
| 15 | Other Italians to watch are 24-year-old Massimiliano Lelli and especially Franco Chiccioli , nicknamed ‘ little Coppi ’ . |
| 16 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 17 | Here , as elsewhere in Scandinavia , the chief buildings to survive are ecclesiastical ; some are based on the French or English pattern but most are of Baltic design , in brick , with decorative gables and on hall church pattern . |
| 18 | The English monks seem for some years to have been able to resist the discipline of Lanfranc . |
| 19 | Some good hand products to use are Crème Vitarome à l'Avocat and Arom-essence Néroli Oil by Decleor , Develop 10 Hand Cream and Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion . |
| 20 | All the skills of presenting as a ‘ non-threatening ’ person , and the techniques of assisting counsellees to talk are necessary here . |
| 21 | In Pizzorno 's words , an ‘ actor ( generally the government ) which has goods to give is ready to trade them in exchange for social consensus with an actor who can threaten to withdraw that consensus ’ ( 1978 : 279 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Who considers those persons to have been involved in abuse or attempted abuse of the immigration laws ? |
| 23 | But the independence being sought for in higher education , and for which the rights to learn are necessary conditions , is an independence of thought which is exercised within a dialogue with others . |
| 24 | A leading article described the CNAA process as ‘ sticky and demanding ’ and believed that when the Council finally approved diversified courses in the colleges they would find the efforts to have been beneficial . |
| 25 | Now , however , she had grown tired of Davis , and her excuses to avoid being alone with him became more frequent . |
| 26 | An examination of the transcript of what the judge actually said in full not infrequently shows the comments to have been excessive and unfair . ’ |
| 27 | The pressures to spend are solid enough . |
| 28 | The time span which is likely to be required for a generation of more effective large-scale entrepreneurs to evolve is considerable . |
| 29 | Commenting on the poor quality of bibliographies in published papers , Kochen concludes that failures to cite are due to : |
| 30 | David Pytches and Brian Skinner have written an account ( unpublished at the time of writing ) questioning the usefulness of parish boundaries and citing twenty-seven precedents in which they believe the parish boundaries to have been unhelpful . |