Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Characteristically Morse sought to swallow back the bitter-tasting fluid that had risen in his gorge ; and the surgeon , with understanding , pulled the rubber sheet over the head again . |
| 2 | Third World states tend to take over the foreign investments that they consider to be important for national development . |
| 3 | In view of all this , one might characterize second language pedagogy as a set of activities designed to bring about the gradual shift of reliance from one systemic resource to another for the achievement of indexical purposes . |
| 4 | The agent has to fill in the financial returns has to send in a report of financial expenditure . |
| 5 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 6 | On their way to the Hotel Colombi , their shoulders stooped to ward off the falling snow , Horowitz paused when he saw a car hire firm which was still open . |
| 7 | There is an increasing number of local authorities , universities and schools wishing to try out the artist-in-residence idea . |
| 8 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 9 | It absorbed over £500,000 from Mr Green and his fellow private investors in the capital investment needed to set up the electronic links between the telephone ordering service and wholesaler Heathcote Books ( which did not invest any money ) . |
| 10 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 11 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |
| 12 | The 1992 programme seeks to tighten up the public purchasing process so as to provide businesses with the prospect that in practice , rather than theory , the whole of the EC market is truly open to their competitive offers . |
| 13 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 14 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 15 | Some in industry have to carry out the same operation . |
| 16 | The search for such solutions fails to draw out the full implications of the criticisms of the traditional method of legitimating corporate managerial power . |
| 17 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 18 | Gale-force winds helped to break up the 40-km oil slick , reducing the impact of what was initially reported as a massive environmental disaster , although oil continued to seep out of the sunken vessel . |
| 19 | West ( 1975 ) develops a taxonomy designed to separate out the different strands in the ‘ great public debt debate ’ . |
| 20 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 21 | In the immediate vicinity of the vent , ashes and lapilli pile up to form a mantle many metres thick , which blankets the countryside like a dirty snow fall ; like a snow fall too , the ash tends to smooth out the earlier irregularities of the ground surface , ultimately producing a landscape of soft , gently moulded hillocks and hollows . |
| 22 | The borrower gets the amount of this loan , minus the unpaid balance of the original one , as cash in hand , and then pays off the full number of instalments needed to pay off the full sum . |
| 23 | Because of the amount of work needed to put out the burning tip , it may be some time before this area of outstanding natural beauty becomes a smoke free zone . |
| 24 | ACT decided to go down the object-oriented route for several reasons . |
| 25 | Candidates have a 5-year period to accumulate the module certificates required to make up the full group awards of : |
| 26 | Perhaps Wordsworth intended to break down the cultivated reader 's protective distinction between literature and life : he certainly succeeded in confusing people , in 1798 and ever since . |
| 27 | If an architecture fails to take over the mainstream computer market in its first ten years , it 's not likely ever to do so . |
| 28 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 29 | This selects the case which takes the shortest time to generate the income needed to pay back the total investment in the project . |
| 30 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |