Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was treated with nebulised salbutamol , which relieved the symptoms , and was reassured and asked to attend the general medical unit of her hospital for follow up . |
| 2 | In the other three novels frothy dialogue and sparkling wit tend to overshadow the deeper philosophical issues at stake . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 5 | It is intended to restore the former baronial mansion to its original internal splendour as a clubhouse for the proposed 18-hole golf course . |
| 6 | Since fencing is expensive , he will want to enclose the largest possible area with his 36m of fencing . |
| 7 | As a result of the bi-modal pattern of female involvement in paid employment ( reflecting the demands of child rearing ) , women tend to be absent from work during the period in which men tend to acquire the post-entry professional qualifications which are required for promotion . |
| 8 | In short , he sought to restore the Holy Roman Empire of Germany , Burgundy and Italy . |
| 9 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 10 | Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city . |
| 11 | Specialist departments combine to provide the widest possible spectrum of coverage . |
| 12 | However , plans to send members of the Japanese armed forces to the Gulf in a non-combat role had collapsed in November after Kaifu failed to secure the necessary bipartisan support for the measure 's approval in the House of Councillors — the upper chamber of the Diet — where the LDP lacked an overall majority . |
| 13 | These titles are retrospectives , released by Savoy shortly after Parker 's premature death ( aged 35 ) ; with this handful of LPs , Savoy sought to encompass the late great alto saxophonist 's complete Savoy discography , which to all intents and purposes they do . |
| 14 | At present they are made by the politician or the hospital administrator responding to the group which can shout the loudest or bring to bear the keenest political acumen . |
| 15 | She kept her lashes lowered to hide the raging green fire of her eyes . |
| 16 | Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback ( the defending champion ) and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test . |
| 17 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 18 | Robinson contributed by helping to found the Central Statistical Office in 1941 . |
| 19 | He trained as an architect and town planner before helping to found the Panhellenic Socialist Resistance , the forerunner of PASOK , while in exile from the Colonels ' dictatorship from 1967 to 1974 . |
| 20 | Although buyers will want to secure the best possible deal for themselves , sellers will only want to sell if they too think that they will obtain a good deal . |
| 21 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 22 | Iraq , which had been barred from exporting oil since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , was permitted to attend the sixth ministerial meeting . |
| 23 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 27 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 28 | The physical environment would have to be remodelled to enforce the new legal speed limits , so that speeds would be reduced by design as well as sign ( Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |