Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The university authorities seemed to trust the students . |
| 2 | Acting attorney general Stuart Gerson and FBI director William Sessions declined to identify the man held , named by a TV station as Salama Mohammed , 26 . |
| 3 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 4 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 5 | Eastern bloc states refused to attend the Los Angeles Olympic Games , East Germany 's Erich Honecker cancelled a visit to West Germany , and Reagan was re-elected as US President . |
| 6 | It was argued that in the verbal rehearsal condition subjects had to name the picture probe before a match could be performed on a verbal basis , while in the imagery condition a match could be made directly . |
| 7 | As war approached , growing numbers of PPU supporters came to accept the necessity of abandoning these unhappy attempts at political engagement . |
| 8 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 9 | Sadly , however , a few Opposition Members sought to block the Bill as it neared the end of its passage through Parliament . |
| 10 | Indeed , over 20% of sole practitioner respondents appeared to accept the proposal . |
| 11 | Over the following five years , in a textbook case of the value of basic research , the microprocessor programmers learned to adapt the ideas worked out by the academic researchers , and in doing so created a new , if quite small , industry . |
| 12 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 13 | Away to the left was a small encampment of black nomad tents , their side flaps hoisted to catch the afternoon breezes . |
| 14 | To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system . |
| 15 | THE battle for the ownership of ITN , the TV news service , took a fresh turn yesterday when the bidding companies decided to extend the offer to November 18 . |
| 16 | Trumpets sounded , press-men hoisted their notebooks and their Kodaks , and cinema newshounds began to crank the handles of their cameras . |
| 17 | The work of the NLRB and the publicity generated by civil liberties groups helped to turn the tide against industrial violence : |
| 18 | Accordingly the fast-sailing Brixham smacks arrived to purchase the fish and race them to Portsmouth . |
| 19 | Council officials refused to allow the chemicals to be used unless it could be shown they were not harmful to humans . |
| 20 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 21 | The Green Belt around London has been preserved not because someone put a price on it but because voters in the Home Counties wanted to stop the city sprawling outwards seemingly for ever . |
| 22 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |
| 23 | There was further evidence of this on March 1 when the four Premiers of the country 's Atlantic provinces met to explore the concept of creating an informal " common market " by eliminating trade barriers between them . |
| 24 | The large forces that most NATO countries fielded to guard the alliance against the Warsaw Pact provided enough flexibility to deal with most crises outside Europe , such as the Gulf war . |
| 25 | And when agents or casting directors deigned to see the show , and stayed to the end , which was rare , the actors crowded around them afterwards , buying them drinks and roaring with laughter at anything they said . |
| 26 | The leader sounds relieved to reach the belay . |
| 27 | Most of these were already being worked on , but three chief officers , together with the director of purchasing and three unit general managers decided to form The X Factor Group . |
| 28 | Only 24 hours earlier conference delegates voted to reduce the unions ' voting strength . |
| 29 | Income tax thresholds were raised from G$10,000 to G$48,000 with lower tax rates planned to offset the withdrawal of personal allowances . |
| 30 | He 's been told he and twenty nine other senior council officers will have to pay back golden handshake payments made to streamline the council 's management . |