Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts have concluded that , given public health initiatives to minimise or eliminate involuntary public exposure to other environmental pollutants with less carcinogenic potency than several of the substances in tobacco smoke , similar efforts to prevent involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke are necessary . |
| 2 | The ease with which it 's possible to construct very professional looking presentations has to be experienced to be believed , and some of the tools it provides would make professional traditional animators green with envy . |
| 3 | Flip through the wacky but informative manual ( which casts you as a movie director ) and you 'll find that the first three programs let you construct 20-frame icon-sized movies . |
| 4 | Equivalently , on a flow basis , the average daily price ( in Figure 18–1 , the average of the prices P 2 and c , weighted by the fraction of the day for which the demand curves D 1 D 1 and D 2 D 2 are relevant ) should cover long-run marginal cost inclusive of capacity costs . |
| 5 | ( d ) " the ability to select and organise relevant knowledge … to analyse and answer specific historical questions . " |
| 6 | Okay staying cloudy for most of the day should stay dry patchy fog will form overnight with a little drizzle . |
| 7 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs Smith should make pleasant sexual contact at night with each other after a day without argument . |
| 9 | It would be better if the method statement read ‘ Mr and Mrs Smith should make pleasant sexual contact at night after any day without argument ’ . |
| 10 | The initial aim of this application was to show that in a model in which agents were fully rational , even to the extent of having rational expectations , movements in nominal spending could still affect aggregate real output or employment . |
| 11 | A fall in the market rate of interest should make profitable some investments in the economy which were previously unprofitable , so that aggregate investment should increase . |
| 12 | These results suggest that IL2 and IFN-γ could enhance colonic epithelial cell injury mediated by the ADCC mechanism in ulcerative colitis and that ADCC enhanced by cytokines is restored by PSL treatment . |
| 13 | Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems Inc says it has decided on the Code Division Multiple Access technology for its national digital cellular strategy : the Motorola Nortel Communications Inc joint venture will supply the hardware and software for the company 's first deployment in the northeast market in early 1994 ; Bell Atlantic also said it signed a letter of intent with AT&T Secure Communications Systems to test AT&T Secure 's cellular wireless data equipment over the Bell Atlantic network , which the company expects will make possible error-free transmission of cellular data . |
| 14 | Improved morale would also make possible organizational advances outside parliament , all linked to the issue of Ulster , and with the sights fixed firmly on the next election , an election that would make or break the Union , the Empire and Law 's leadership of the party . |
| 15 | As Giovannoni ( 1982 ) has demonstrated , the model was developed in the late nineteenth century when public health developed a methodology and a terminology for mounting programmes and interventions to control and eliminate acute infectious diseases ( Armstrong , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | The local authorities need to know now how the standard spending assessments will be calculated so that they can make definite financial plans . |
| 17 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 18 | Civilian populations may not be attacked as such , but we recognise that the co-location of military targets and civilians may make unavoidable certain injury to civilians . |
| 19 | A 14-YEAR-OLD girl will make British legal history tomorrow when she defends her right to ‘ divorce ’ her parents . |
| 20 | Tight fashionable clothes , the pill , ovulation and hormonal change ( e.g. after pregnancy ) are just a few of the reasons today 's women might experience light vaginal discharge . |
| 21 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Hellenistic , Roman and early Medieval jewellers could only treat transparent coloured stones by rubbing them smooth . |
| 23 | Although many sentences with this surface sequence will always come to the same thing pragmatically , whichever of the two constructions is assumed ( this is one of the features which can make careful syntactic analysis such a delicate matter ) , it is nonetheless possible to find some which are open to either syntactic interpretation but with a clear difference in meaning ; this will then help to throw the syntactic difference into relief . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'd prefer British medical reports . ’ |
| 25 | While discussions of what astronomers expect to find can only be expressed in terms of what they already know , those working on IRAS clearly hope that the satellite will make exciting new discoveries . |
| 26 | The discovery suggests that nature can absorb fresh genetic material — such as the products of biotechnology experiments — without harmful consequences , but may at the same time reinforce fears that " foreign " DNA can find its way into native species , a process known as transformation . |
| 27 | Varying light conditions , and the demands of either close or distance work will make different visual demands on children , and the nature of these visual tasks should be considered in terms of the child 's visual capabilities . |
| 28 | For example , a bank loan may fall due three months after the balance sheet date but the borrower may have obtained a commitment from the bank to provide a further loan for the same amount for a further three years . |
| 29 | An outer-arc ridge , formed of wedges of deformed oceanic sediment and slivers of oceanic crust in addition to sediment originating from the adjacent continent , may undergo extensive vertical development and in some cases rise above sea level . |
| 30 | It makes a beautiful 6ft ( T.8m ) shrub , but it does need dry sunny weather to get the blooms to open . |