Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 2 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 3 | A law signed on March 5 ( given in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of May 6 ) laid down the legal foundations of individual and state security and set up a Security Council responsible for this area , chaired ex officio by the Russian President . |
| 4 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 5 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 6 | That year the great Earl of Chatham , formerly the elder Pitt , laid down the basic principles of British naval policy : |
| 7 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 8 | Perhaps this is the reason for the bashfully truncated picture of the F/A-18 which , although admittedly showing the aircraft 's refined canopy shape successfully developed from the grasshopper 's eye concept , plays down the disappointing lack of progress in the other aspects mentioned . |
| 9 | Unstable rock , high on the left flank , periodically cascades down the lower section of the route . |
| 10 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 11 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |
| 12 | Perhaps the essential task of bringing in the new democracies of eastern Europe will founder on economic collapse , ethnic unrest and social upheaval . |
| 13 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 14 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 15 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 16 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 17 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 18 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 19 | If one person in a twin room cancels , we reserve the right to pass on the full cost of the twin room to the person using that room . |
| 20 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 21 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 22 | Our role has been to put forward practical suggestions — and sometimes to rein in the larger ambitions of our partners . |
| 23 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 24 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 25 | It seems , although the statement of claim does not set out the matter in any systematic way , that C.M.C. drew down the full loan of £420,000 and subsequently defaulted in its payments to B.M.T. It does not appear precisely how the £420,000 was expended by C.M.C. After obtaining the possession order in respect of the bakery , B.M.T. sold it for about £183,000 . |
| 26 | One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening . |
| 27 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 28 | Scott wandered down the short set of steps to Carol 's door , noticing that there was a pint of milk on the step . |
| 29 | Since unionization levels among white-collar workers are about half those for blue-collar in both countries , this shift worked to pull down the average level of unionization even though more white-collar workers started to join unions . |
| 30 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |