Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to restore the former baronial mansion to its original internal splendour as a clubhouse for the proposed 18-hole golf course . |
| 2 | The papal itinerary is expected to include the former Portuguese colony of East Timor , annexed by Indonesia in 1976 , which has a predominantly Catholic population . |
| 3 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 4 | At present , a council has to set the same standard charge for all unoccupied second homes . |
| 5 | When he moved to inflict the same beautiful torture on the twin globe she cried out , drowning in a riot of sensation . |
| 6 | This extends to the appointment of ancillary and technical staff , who would be expected to have the same sympathetic qualities , and to making a case for help from the authority 's teaching and support services or for a welfare assistant to help with an individual pupil . |
| 7 | The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea . |
| 8 | They will also need to take the same long-term view . |
| 9 | The professional clairvoyant also has to ignore the many scriptural bans on fortune-telling ( 1 Samuel 28:3 ; 2 Kings 21:6 ; Isaiah 8:19,20 ; Daniel 2:2 and others ) . |
| 10 | Marriage had now come to occupy the same central position in her mind as religion had formerly : on it all her hopes were based . |
| 11 | The m-derived section is arranged to exhibit the same characteristic impedance and critical frequency or frequencies as the prototype . |
| 12 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 13 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 14 | In an obvious respect all three are similar : all seek to justify the same discriminatory practice and all three have emerged from the same institution which practices discrimination . |
| 15 | She grew up in the African bush , and came to love the many wild animals as well as the domestic animals on her father 's farm . |
| 16 | The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze . |
| 17 | Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’ |
| 18 | The NATO countries agreed to help the former communist countries to reorganize their armed forces , specifically to advise on the role of armed forces in democracies , practical aspects of defence management and methods for the environmental clean-up of defence installations . |
| 19 | If your ability to gain the skills and information needed to combat the many complex issues that you have to deal with is impaired , then the government and employers will have what they want . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he next intends to visit the former Soviet Union to discuss matters relating to technology transfer and aid for the republics . |
| 21 | I suppose you get days when you feel you get up and you 've got to do the same old things — you get bored , you 're stuck in the same routine . |
| 22 | Parsytec intends to use the same basic design of a 1.6Gflop processing unit as a building block for systems executing up to 400Gflops. the largest computers on sale now can perform tens of Gflops . |
| 23 | The age distribution of the working population for two countries , one developed and one developing , which happen to have the same sized labour force is shown in fig. 1.7 . |
| 24 | Organic chemists had been troubled and had had to overcome the same semantic problems a century earlier ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 25 | I am already conscious of the manner in which research students tend to plough the same predictable paths through archival sources . |
| 26 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 27 | Brady aims to field the same 11 players who began Saturday 's Old Firm clash with Rangers at Ibrox and admitted : ‘ I 'm depending a lot on Joe Miller and I 've told him so . ’ |
| 28 | Do we both just happen to share the same good life ? ’ |
| 29 | Dexter guessed she was starting to share the same nagging sense of depression that had afflicted him since the end of the interview with Parkin . |
| 30 | All cell lines were found to have the same basal concentration of cAMP . |