Example sentences of "[verb] move a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the legislature convened in October , one of the those dismissed moved a vote of no confidence which was defeated by 15 votes to five . |
| 2 | The rotor teeth are once again aligned with these stator teeth , except that the rotor has moved a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 3 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 4 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 5 | The electrification of one of British Rail 's busiest commuter routes has moved a step closer . |
| 6 | Not only have they suffered the nightmares of the civil war , but as each day has passed , they 've known that their daughter has moved a stage closer to death . |
| 7 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 8 | Now the exercise has moved a further step forward , with yarn ranges presented to knitwear manufacturers and retailers . |
| 9 | GLOBAL electronic mail , with desktop computers linking Courtaulds businesses round the world , has moved a step nearer reality . |
| 10 | A proposed rail link between Oxford , Aylesbury and Milton Keynes has moved a step nearer reality this afternoon with the decision by Buckinghamshire County Council to invest in the project . |
| 11 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 12 | Hoey claims the SAS watch on the royals is so rigorous that Di must alert them every time she wants to move a piece of furniture or a even a painting at Highgrove or Kensington Palace . |
| 13 | She will also , it is claimed , answer the phone automatically , so you do n't need to move a hand off the wheel to take an incoming call . |
| 14 | For example , suppose a motor with the torque/speed characteristic shown in Fig.5.l has to move a load 1000 steps . |
| 15 | This argument is reversed when the load has to move a large distance , because a high operating speed is then required . |
| 16 | ‘ British Sugar often want to move a load at very short notice and we must always be at the ready ’ he adds . |
| 17 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 18 | Yeah I mean if it 's somebody wanting to move a three-piece suite and just a few books , no , we 'd do it at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't you dare move a muscle ! ’ |
| 20 | And a lawyer involved in the Equity Funding Scandal of the mid-1970s said : ‘ It was like someone asking you to help move a sofa from here to there . |
| 21 | You know , if , if somebody 's got to move a twenty-two R B even three hundred yards , they do n't do that any more , do they , they move it metres . |
| 22 | Got to move a plant for mummy . |
| 23 | ladies and gentlemen I would like to move a very small amendment to do a the second a membership on on item four on where it says up to three represent the area etcetera erm now the which I am currently a member of includes three libraries erm which are and and there are in fact five County Councils involved in the area of those three libraries when in fact Bushey has its own Bushey and there was a but I would like to see |
| 24 | I 'd like to move a petition containing four , two hundred and forty nine signatures of residents of Broadstone who request a ped pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane near road . |
| 25 | I 'd like to move a petition containing two hundred and forty four signatures and my name on the green order page and I ask that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 26 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 27 | This part of the country , referred to as south Oxfordshire or north Berkshire , ( boundaries have tended to move a lot ) , is a startlingly beautiful part of England . |
| 28 | To make a choice from any menu , the Arrow keys ( or mouse if you have one ) are used to move a highlight bar to the appropriate place before pressing the ENTER key to select the option . |
| 29 | Overly euphoric notions inside the company that it 's going to move a million units in the next year ‘ ai n't gon na happen , ’ he said . |
| 30 | And I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away than Fenn Lane . |