Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Government has embarked on the first ever strategy for health . |
| 2 | The EC guideline is 26 ppb. * Greater use of catalytic converters in the Netherlands has led to the first ever recorded drop in Nox concentrations . |
| 3 | The gradual perception of this has gone with the still more necessary shift by which people have at last gradually begun to realise that human welfare too converges very considerably with both these things . |
| 4 | The plan therefore built on the proposals put forward in 1937 by Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens for London 's traffic , and proposed to add to the two already partly-built outer ring roads ( the North and South Orbital and the North and South Circular ) with two corresponding inner rings — ‘ the fast traffic ring-road an |
| 5 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 6 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 7 | So I said to her she said would you like to go to the Regal so I said I do n't mind . |
| 8 | When we left at 11.20 am the forecourt would be crowded with another congregation waiting to enter for the 11.30 am Celebration of the Sung Eucharist . |
| 9 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 10 | Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) . |
| 11 | As you may have heard in the seven o'clock news , three British hostages are now on their way home from Iraq , after being freed from jail in Baghdad . |
| 12 | In that case the County Council will have to look after the sick there , possibly with supervision of the staff by representatives of the Regional Hospital Board . ’ |
| 13 | Two day hospitals are provided to cater for the elderly mentally ill , one for those with functional illnesses and one for those with dementia . |
| 14 | A band like that survived because of the existence of indie labels that kept going in the Eighties even though many of their major acts like The Smiths , and now The Fall and Blue Aeroplanes , deserted them for the majors . |
| 15 | Even the moral reformer was primarily concerned — at least in terms of practical politics — with encouraging greater efforts in the regulation of the public arena , though imperceptibly many began to attempt to evangelise in the private too , in a tradition that had a considerable history , and a long future . |
| 16 | For example , if the treaty breaks down and the Soviet Navy wishes to return to the Mediterranean rapidly it would have to bypass potentially hostile chokepoints at both ends of the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade . |
| 18 | Charles 's Navy had fought very well against the Dutch in the 1660s until the money ran out , and had kept going in the 1670s satisfactorily enough . |
| 19 | The years 1990 and 1991 had emerged as the warmest ever recorded , outstripping the 1980s , which had been the warmest decade to date . |
| 20 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 22 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 23 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 24 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 25 | Moreover , endoscopic and percutaneous cholangiography have become during the 1980s widely used methods to diagnose bile duct abnormality , including common duct stones . |
| 26 | We have concentrated on the three most important diagnostic signs : upward or downward straggle in individual batches ( figure 11.2 ) , wedge-shaped data where batches with higher medians have greater spread ( figure 11.3 ) , and curvy lines in a scatterplot ( figure 11.11 ) . |
| 27 | Even the lighter songs ‘ Ständchen ’ and ‘ Der Abschied ’ have their own individuality with Reimann 's clipped playing in the former exactly conveying the timbre of a guitar . |
| 28 | My general position would be that if this policy is to go ahead the more it 's worded in the positive rather than the negative the better . |
| 29 | Beginners in Japlish use that sound for both ‘ l ’ and ‘ r ’ , but more advanced speakers learn to distinguish between the two so that they can get them mixed up . |