Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the sets were completely different , the Theatre Royal having a much taller stage , White had to restage the movements during the two-week break . |
| 2 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 3 | There 's no need to nail the shelves down , as they ca n't move sideways because of the spacers . |
| 4 | Mr Charles Gray , QC , Lord Aldington 's counsel , asked : ‘ Have you come here to nail the bastards or to help to discover the truth ? ’ |
| 5 | United need to nail the cobblers who are bottom of the league with just one point |
| 6 | Continuity in subcontracting allows parent companies to diversify the risks of specialization and promotes the exchange of technological information so that the quality of inputs is ensured and delivery schedules guaranteed . |
| 7 | Continuity in subcontracting allows parent companies to diversify the risks of specialization and promotes the exchange of technological information so that the quality of inputs is ensured and delivery schedules guaranteed . |
| 8 | Instead , the factor that most influences the outcome of inferotemporal cortex lesions is not memory load but whether or not the animals are required to categorize the stimuli before making their choices ( Dean 1982 ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is possible to classify plants in the field by taking leaf samples and performing appropriate tests ( see Dirzo & Harper , 1982a ) and to categorize the plants into four groups Ac Li , Ac li , ac Li , ac li . |
| 10 | And through it all were shafts of golden splendour , shooting down from above to burnish the leaves with brilliance . |
| 11 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 12 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 13 | It must be said , however , that it is not only the obviously authoritarian Third World regimes , desperate for FDI , that have sometimes been prepared to sacrifice the interests of their workers in order to insure the jobs created by the TNCs . |
| 14 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 15 | The participants from Eastern Europe may well have been surprised at how lightly their Western counterparts were ready to sacrifice the traditions of the great east Berlin museums . |
| 16 | It appeared he also liked to skin the bodies of his victims and had a capability to swallow eyeballs . |
| 17 | Well the , the lads used to skin the rabbits for the customers and throw the skin ov over the top of this cart , horse and cart . |
| 18 | In 1943 he was seconded from the army to advise on how to reorganize the munitions factories . |
| 19 | UNO 's platform , announced early in September , included plans to expand the market economy , to extend social freedoms and guarantees including trade union freedoms , to revise the Constitution to provide for a strict separation of the state , the Army and the ruling party , to abolish compulsory military service , to reduce radically the size of the armed forces , to reorganize the police under civil authority and to grant an amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a three year refurbishing plan for our homes and while we are undertaking that project we will need to accommodate the residents . |
| 21 | Or maybe the meanings were a little brighter because where their radiance spilled out into the darkness , the rose and jonquil and lavender and jade washed into each other and each mote changed a fraction to accommodate the contiguities , and a perfumed necklace of logic darted away , jewelled shooting-stars too fast for her to catch . |
| 22 | I am very pleased that , in so far as it is possible , we have been able , through the usual channels , to accommodate the wishes of the Opposition on the allocation of time to different parts of the Bill . |
| 23 | The club is large enough to accommodate the Inspirals ' fans , but not a lot more . |
| 24 | National Certificate Modules are delivered in schools , further education colleges and other approved centres throughout Scotland and because they are separate units in their own right , modules can be taken in a variety of ways to accommodate the circumstances of the individual — full-time , part-time , distance or open-learning or a combination of these . |
| 25 | In a related development , the EC environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , strongly criticized the latest draft of the Convention on Climate Change as a " sellout " to accommodate the interests of the US government ( which has thus far refused to commit itself to specific emission reductions ) . |
| 26 | It was only when democracy was restored in Spain that this legacy truly began to break down and the form of state enterprises changed to accommodate the interests of organized labour . |
| 27 | Now we have to accommodate the tastes of partners of immediate family as well as our own offspring , so choice is careful indeed . |
| 28 | The printers have been designed to reflect Hewlett-Packard 's ‘ anywhere to anywhere ’ print strategy , which aims to accommodate the complexities of heterogeneous computing environments while keeping pace with users ' demands for speedier and more advanced printers . |
| 29 | In chapter 13 the Group suggests that , for pupils taught mainly through the medium of Welsh , the programmes of study but not the attainment targets for English in key stage 2 will need modification , to accommodate the matters , skills and processes which have been included in the English programmes of study for key stage 1 but have been disapplied in respect of such pupils in key stage 1 . |
| 30 | ( 1989 ) acknowledge the reality of these problems for their theory and present additional features of the connectionist model that might allow it to accommodate the findings . |