Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It affects us directly — a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full .
2 Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants .
3 She had , to begin with , colonised the boudoir , rearranging the furniture and bringing down pretty china from the spare bedroom , so as , she planned , to sit there often by herself .
4 Saint-Léon laid down certain rules for the staging of character dance based on the traditional folk dance of a particular country .
5 Back in 1952 the then Home Secretary , Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , laid down specific guidelines to the Director-General of MI5 as to how it should operate in the future .
6 The revised law laid down strict rules on the issuing of permits for demonstrations and forbade government and party officials from participating .
7 Several churches were structurally redesigned along Arminian lines during the 1630s ; the Arminian cleric and poet , George Herbert , supervised the restoration of the ruined church at Leighton Bromswold near Huntingdon , and Abbey Dore church in Herefordshire was restored by a local landowner , Viscount Scudamore , who commissioned a new oak roof and screen .
8 DARLINGTON manager Ray Hankin has resisted bringing in young players after the 4–2 home defeat by Reading .
9 Although the major bookmaking firms are represented on the users committee , they were originally not keen on Hong Kong because it meant bringing in extra staff in the mornings .
10 If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it .
11 With the Criminal Justice Act bringing in major changes to the entire justice system , many of the agencies want time taallow it to work .
12 Anything which attempts to reverse this by bringing in unfamiliar work from the past which students have a positive motive for wanting to read must be a good thing , and strikes a blow against cultural amnesia .
13 GENERAL Accident is bidding to stem claims losses and bring down premium costs with the launch of customised household and motor insurance policies .
14 But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st .
15 But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on .
16 When they tried to stumble on , the heavy guns sank up to their barrels in the ground ; meanwhile the buzzards hovered overhead , hurling down great rocks on the struggling men .
17 Dazed , we wandered along flat ground towards the lake , when we heard the roar of an approaching speedboat .
18 No marriage can survive over long distances in the long term , especially if all the effort culminates in the eventual failure to obtain that elusive consultancy .
19 For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed .
20 After about a week she was tearing off big lumps of the dead chicks I was feeding her .
21 Vauxhall beat off worldwide competition for the engine plant contract .
22 Camdessus also urged the industrialized countries to increase aid to the LDCs and to write off official loans to the poorest countries .
23 The migrations had been made possible by geological changes temporarily removing barriers such as the English Channel , or opening up new routes through the creation of land-bridges .
24 Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future .
25 That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) .
26 Over the next few months many places drew up loyal addresses to the Queen , defending the Church and monarchy against those they styled republicans and schismatics , and condemning " the new Revived Doctrine of Resistance and other Republican Tenetts that gave rise to the unnatural Rebellion in 41 " .
27 My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 .
28 With pal Andrew Christie , 21 , Paul planned to smash up parked cars with the baseball bat .
29 Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services .
30 This is the man who has conjured up fresh doubts about the validity of the so-called Dianagate tapes .
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