Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 2 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 3 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 4 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 5 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 6 | Our range of sleeping beauties have all been especially designed to meet the two highest standards there are : you and your child 's . |
| 7 | At current production rates , production from the Wytch Farm field was expected to pass the 100 million barrel mark in early October . |
| 8 | The discussion process has been overseen by Howell James , director of corporate affairs , who as an adviser to Lord Young helped to write the 1987 Conservative manifesto . |
| 9 | The Theory of Everything ( TOE ) has to combine the four fundamental forces of nature , the strong and weak nuclear forces , electromagnetism and gravity , and use them to explain how the Universe , space and time could come into existence without recourse to divine intervention . |
| 10 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 11 | On his way to the harvest supper Gabriel stopped to check the eight huge hay- and wheat-ricks . |
| 12 | Why do n't the B B C , both radio and television , take advertising , and then we not only would not need to pay an extra twenty quid , we probably would n't need to pay the eighty odd pounds that we 're paying already for a colour television licence . |
| 13 | The original board ( linked by the presence of John Locke to the Carolinas and the colonies of the 1660s ) helped to unite the two New Jerseys , and continued the policy of encouraging proprietors to sell or give up their special powers and turn their domains into royal colonies . |
| 14 | The ‘ cost pass-through ’ mechanism is designed to override the five yearly profit limits set by the director general , called the K-factor . |
| 15 | Renault plans to target the 1.4 RT version at long-distance travellers , reckoning that its spacious interior , high equipment and trim levels and supple ride will enable the top-spec Clio to rival bigger cars for commuting . |
| 16 | No attempt has so far been made to incorporate the two higher levels ( discourse rules and world knowledge ) within the present project . |
| 17 | On July 31 the Grand National Assembly passed a bill refusing to extend the 1967 Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship Treaty beyond August 1992 when it was due to expire . |
| 18 | The C helix happens to have the 3 10 conformation ( hydrogen-bonding to the third residue along , rather than the fourth , as in the α-helix ) , and the answer is that the glutamate generates a bulge ; moreover the local helix geometry switches from 3 10 to α . |
| 19 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 20 | Factories which had been switched from military production because of cuts in defence spending were instructed to meet these needs , and it was decided to supplement the 36,000 Interior Ministry troops by diverting new conscripts from Army work . |
| 21 | Not as clear as that , it 's not a ris , it 's not that they 're either going to lose the six double O one and half a million , it 's the thing that 's , admit that they might , and it weakens our position . |
| 22 | The rest of her livestock will be sold to meet the twelve thousand pounds costs awarded against her . |
| 23 | Second , the known state of the left-hand arm was used to provide the two translational functions describing the motion of the left-hand end of the coupler rod . |
| 24 | The arrangement sprang out of Compaq winning a contract to supply hardware , which was used to manage the 1991 national elections . |
| 25 | A single filled circle was used to represent the two Long transgenics containing one copy of the Ea transgene for the purpose of clarity . |
| 26 | They totalled only some 10,000 regulars , perhaps 3000 of whom were needed to hold the 38 fortified strongholds in the country , particularly Plymouth , Portsmouth and Tilbury . |
| 27 | So I 've got to take the four one megs out and put four four megs in . |
| 28 | The angles thus calculated for all frames are then used to produce the two rotational functions shown on the right of Figure 7.12 . |
| 29 | Immediately , the arena doors opened to admit the four armed guards . |
| 30 | Mr Guthrie , who was appointed by the Home Secretary in 1988 , recently accepted an invitation from the director , Lt Cdr Brian Miles to visit Headquarters and as the date coincided with the lottery , Mr Guthrie agreed to draw the 20 lucky numbers . |