Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as in their trade policy the Federalists are prepared to sacrifice the Member States ' economic prosperity for the political goal of a United Europe , so does the establishment of a Common Foreign and Security policy sacrifice their military and strategic needs to that same political end . |
| 2 | Furthermore , if such an event occurred , everyone recognized that the PLO would be under intense external pressure to sacrifice the refugee right of return . |
| 3 | Ask the fishmonger to skin the plaice fillets for you . |
| 4 | In R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , ex parte Northumbria Police Authority , the police authority sought judicial review to compel the Home Secretary to withdraw a circular issuing plastic bullets and CS gas to local police forces . |
| 5 | I think not : in Case 145/88 the court had no need to rely on the criterion of proportionality — any more than it does in these cases — since it was immediately apparent , as it is now in these proceedings , that the obstacles created by the national legislation in question certainly were not , and are not , of such a kind as to compel the member state to dispense with a measure necessary for the attainment of a justified objective . |
| 6 | In 1943 he was seconded from the army to advise on how to reorganize the munitions factories . |
| 7 | On the same day two of Spain 's leading private electricity companies ( Iberduero SA and Hidroeléctrica Española SA ) announced plans to merge to compete with the state-owned ENDESA ( Empresa Nacional de Electricidad SA ) , in a move welcomed by the government which was aiming to reorganize the power industry and planned to introduce a new national energy plan by the end of July . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry , ’ Michael said as our photographer 's head banged against the ceiling , which has an unfortunate bulge in it to accommodate the sun roof . |
| 9 | On the broad canals of Yorkshire the locks were built to accommodate the sailing keels which were about 60 feet long and 14 feet wide . |
| 10 | Three bridges have been constructed — at the mineral railway , Lasswade Road and Gilmerton Road and are , in order to accommodate the Park Burn which crossed the rote in several places , two culverts have been built . |
| 11 | Two concrete drainage culverts have been constructed to accommodate the Park Burn which crossed the line of the Bypass at a number of locations . |
| 12 | The Home Unions have steadfastly refused to alter the timing of the tour to accommodate the Wallaby tour to South Africa and have also denied the ARU 's request to permit the Wallabies to tour South Africa prior to arriving in Ireland and Scotland . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , in order to accommodate the monarchist lobby , when the first local government elections since the Civil War were held , in Madrid , in November 1954 , Franco allowed a group of monarchists to stand as candidates alongside the official list . |
| 14 | Changes to guidance notes are needed to accommodate the Money Laundering Directive currently being implemented through the Criminal Justice Bill and supplementary European Community regulations . |
| 15 | This being sufficiently large to accommodate the circuit board , mains transformer , sockets , switch and volume controls . |
| 16 | Where teachers have sought to accommodate the subject requirements of the National Curriculum , have they achieved a truer balance than that shown by our figures , or has the result been an imbalance even more marked than that which obtained previously ? |
| 17 | I think that it would be true to say that , nowadays , most materialists want to avoid theories that are as nakedly behaviouristic as this , and want to accommodate the common-sense intuition that something inner and introspectible is missing in the blind or deaf , for example , in addition to their lost capacity to respond . |
| 18 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 19 | Make sure these holes are large enough to accommodate the strain relief bushes to be fitted later . |
| 20 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 21 | Cut the board to size with a hacksaw and cut out two corners 8mm square to accommodate the corner pillars in the case . |
| 22 | Negotiations are under way to acquire an additional 41,000 sq metres of land at Gonfreville to accommodate the town centre operations . |
| 23 | Dig a hole wide and deep enough to accommodate the root system without undue bending and fill it with water . |
| 24 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 25 | The next day , make six holes at equal intervals around the top edge of the blue cake drum to accommodate the candy canes . |
| 26 | At the turn of the century the town expanded to accommodate the sugar cane workers , and a railway line led to the Haleiwa Hotel . |
| 27 | He also took a small stone from the centre of the strange formation , and shortly after his return home , he attended a meeting with other dowsers and suggested that it might be interesting to dowse the crop circle samples . |
| 28 | Not one to shirk the product testing , she eats in the restaurants five times a week and , on some occasions , has a chef cook the entire menu for her . |
| 29 | Are there any plans to re-badge the Yorkshire Volunteers ? |
| 30 | His only polite response to the chairman 's objections is to uphold the tact maxim ( " minimise the cost to others " ) superficially by claiming that his paper is not a " technical " one ( p. 88 ) and stating that he will 'speak a little slower " . |