Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
| 2 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 3 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 4 | Instead there is the now familiar resort to notoriously slippery and unreliable lifestyle and consumption indices to trace out the contours of projected readerships . |
| 5 | If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously . |
| 6 | Diamond thieves used old shoes in the woods in North Lane to pass on the goods . |
| 7 | At a meeting with US Secretary of State James Baker on July 13 , Prime Minister Hage Geingob asked the USA to use its influence with South Africa to speed up the negotiations over the port of Walvis Bay , which remained under South African jurusdiction . |
| 8 | Such surveys , whether by sea or land , again required not merely naturalists to accompany them , but museum staff to write up the collections and make the knowledge public . |
| 9 | We will establish regional technology transfer centres to bring together the resources of industry , colleges , and government labs . |
| 10 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 11 | It needed considerable force of character , whatever the merits of the issue , for the Thomson family to shut down The Times and The Sunday Times for a year and for Murdoch to move the papers to ‘ fortress Wapping ’ later , in his struggles with the unions . |
| 12 | The late 1980s saw the start of a long overdue restoration programme to clear away the scars of industrial exploitation and ‘ green ’ the South Wales Valleys . |
| 13 | And that interest was reflected when over 100,000 people filled six blocks of George Street from Circular Quay to the Town Hall to cheer home the Wallabies . |
| 14 | But it was the failure of the Windscale Inquiry to represent adequately the protesters ' arguments which encouraged the first example of direct action in this country . |
| 15 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 16 | I meet my big chief on Monday morning to find out the details . ’ |
| 17 | Primarily , it will be for the British Transport police to carry out the tests . |
| 18 | First , there had to be a major subversive or espionage activity that was likely to injure the national interest , and secondly the material likely to be obtained by the interception had to be of direct use in compiling the information necessary for the security services to carry out the tasks laid upon them by the state . |
| 19 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 20 | The Harpers had attended every day of the Bristol Crown Court trial to hear how the girls died in a late-night blaze in a hay-filled barn at Uckington , near Cheltenham , Glos . |
| 21 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 22 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 23 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 24 | At present it is left to the planning officers of the district council to decide how the views of parish councils are pesented to the planning committee or indeed if they are presented at all . |
| 25 | Salad , Four Bean p105 Salade Niçoise p76 Salami p9/ A group of air-dried sausages made from raw , cured meats and eaten very thinly sliced Salt , types of p49 Salt p49/ A natural product used as a flavour enhancer to bring out the flavours of other ingredients . |
| 26 | This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home . |
| 27 | But , less than three years on , a barrage of unforeseen problems has compelled Peter Mantle to take on the responsibilities of a new role : that of vigorous country crusader . |
| 28 | They ordered the auto firm to haul down the flags , claiming they were ‘ excessive ’ in a residential area . |
| 29 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the continuing Government pressure to bring about the improvements is welcome news ? |
| 30 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |