Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme |
| 2 | The D12 has been designed to perform as the ultimate in digitally controlled amplification . |
| 3 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 4 | To do that operation , you are expected to wait until the first of the month to start planning the month . |
| 5 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 6 | An even greater sustained impact on productivity has occurred amongst the thousands of small farmers in the former reserve areas of Zimbabwe . |
| 7 | The main debate within planning has focused on the first of these types of development . |
| 8 | I tried to shout like the two of them , but my cry came out strangled and distorted ; I just could n't express my anger in English . |
| 9 | The same was true when I tried recording with the ME-6 through a Fostex desk onto cassette . |
| 10 | She seemed to stand staring at the two of them , and they at her , for a long time , while outside , where night was making of the road a strange country , the vegetation grew black and monstrous . |
| 11 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 12 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 13 | Your family will enjoy choosing from the 100's of books brought to you every month in The Red House Post and At Home magazines . |
| 14 | Material needs to arrive by the 8th of the month previous to publication . |
| 15 | Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four . |
| 16 | The dolphin is practically extinct in the Punjab , where only 60 to 70 are reported to survive in the thousands of kilometres of river which were until recent times the home of many more animals . |
| 17 | Closing the door of her flat behind her , she thought : something rather important has passed between the two of us . |
| 18 | It is the hardiest breed of all , able to be productive where other cattle could not even survive , and , like other hardy old breeds , it is long-lived and can make do with the poorest of grazing . |
| 19 | On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) . |
| 20 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA plans to pitch at the top-end of the volume workstation business with high-performance machines built around Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC that will compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp — if it can figure out how to market the things . |
| 21 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 22 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 23 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |
| 24 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 25 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 26 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 27 | They then couch their message in terms with which their hearers will be familiar , seeking to move from the known to the unknown . |
| 28 | Right , for the next item members will need to note the statements from the joint trade unions liaison committee and the non-domestic rate-payers group and to find item twenty-one two today 's papers , the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , meeting held on the eighteenth of January , agenda item twenty-two brackets one . |
| 29 | The report forecasts that the UK fast food market is set to continue growing through the 1990s at between 5% and 6% at constant prices , compared with 10% value growth in turnover during the mid-1980s . |
| 30 | They 're much easier this way round because you have n't got to go through the minor at all to reach them . |