Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity agreed to ask the national parliaments of Western Europe to lend their voices to the argument . |
| 2 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 3 | Police have mounted a series of operations to try to catch the rustling gangs , some of whom are thought to travel from various parts of the country . |
| 4 | Travel : Copse and robbers Christopher Somerville sees how woodland has usurped the ancient cattle thieves of the Cheviot Hills |
| 5 | The new Christian has to learn the old hymns and to appreciate them . |
| 6 | Moreover , Brooks has stressed the verbal similarities between S 22 and S 985 , which records an alleged gift by Cnut and was copied by Eadui into a Christ Church gospel book in the form of a royal writ . |
| 7 | And I think that it might be useful , Mr Chairman to emphasize the fact that we are a rural county , and a rural county has specific rural problems , er , and I do n't think that the district auditor has recognized the particular problems that we have er , in a rural county . |
| 8 | The division has poisoned the neighbouring countries ' relations — further complicated because the official language of Ghana is English , that of Togo French . |
| 9 | British proposals helped to shape the key provisions of the Treaty , including those strengthening the enforcement of Community law , defence , subsidiarity and law and order . |
| 10 | Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened . |
| 11 | Much of the literature on the non-equivalence between these trade policies has considered the polar cases of monopoly and perfect competition ( for review see Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 13 | After the beginner has acquired the basic principles of kung fu and enough knowledge to string together simple one- and two-step techniques , he comes into contact with what are known as ‘ forms ’ . |
| 14 | First , while parliament has to vote the annual Estimates , the party system in the House of Commons is such that it is virtually unknown for Parliament to amend the Estimates put to it by the government . |
| 15 | However since that date parliament has passed the Matrimonial Homes and Property Act 1981 , the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 and the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 . |
| 16 | The present economic recession has highlighted the growing problems of financing an expanding education system and it has revived the debate on the contribution of education , and particularly higher education , to economic growth . |
| 17 | But recession has blighted the high hopes of the late 1980s . |
| 18 | His is an angry , radical critique of the changes taking place , arguing that market ideology has pervaded the Scottish universities to the extent that their work has lost its breadth , its pace , its ability to question and its identity . |
| 19 | Drake Educational Associates has appointed the following representatives : Kent , East Sussex — Pamela Teague , South Winds , ( ) ; Beds , Bucks , Berks , Oxon , Herts and Northants — Deborah Newling , ( ) ; Staffs , Salop , Worcs , Warks , West Midlands — Fiona Boyle Wolverhampton , West Midlands , Cambridgeshire , Suffolk , Norfolk , Essex — Stan Carter ( ) . |
| 20 | The Board has appointed the following committees to deal with specific aspects of the Group 's affairs . |
| 21 | Moscow tried to encourage the non-aligned states to commit themselves in this region to the ‘ gradual curtailment of distinct forms of military-political cooperation … the non-creation of new forms of multilateral and bilateral alliances , the non-adoption of military functions by non-military regional organisations ’ . |
| 22 | In Germany turnover taxes have been abolished and the Bundesbank has dismantled the remaining restrictions on issuance and underwriting of foreign currency bonds by borrowers domiciled in Germany ( until then issuance in foreign currency required a non-resident financial subsidiary ) . |
| 23 | Dr Margaret Spufford has examined the varying fortunes of three different Cambridgeshire parishes — Chippenham , Orwell and Willingham — in Contrasting Communities : English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ( 1974 ) . |
| 24 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 25 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 26 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 27 | Gradually , however , different shapes developed to suit the respective functions , and the visual appearance of the separate tool and weapon types suggests that different alloys were used for each . |
| 28 | The research sought to identify the key factors affecting urban economic change , to examine the consequences of change for the urban economy and the employment of inner city residents , and to assess the effects of public policies in impeding or facilitating urban adjustment to change . |
| 29 | Phonics involves making the appropriate noises for particular symbols : it is , by definition , about reading aloud , or about finding out what a word is by saying it . |
| 30 | At first the flats had been let to carefully chosen tenants and an attempt made to preserve the modest amenities ; the square of lawn bordering the road , the two rose beds , the hanging windowboxes on each of the balconies . |