Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret decision to continue producing the new generation of so-called ‘ binary ’ nerve gas weapons would also seem to preclude a Bush-inspired bilateral agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to start reducing their arsenals of chemical weapons before the new global treaty is concluded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 4 | We have two principles of political integrity : a legislative principle , which asks lawmakers to try to make the total set of laws morally coherent , and an adjudicative principle , which instructs that the law be seen as coherent in that way , so far as possible . |
| 5 | It thus offered a form of compensatory training for them and made no attempt to try to alter the racist structures and attitudes in the labour market by which they were disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 6 | The sole churchman to try to raise the Black issue in an effective way was Rev. Roy Magee , minister of Saintfield Presbyterian Church . |
| 7 | Mike Burton , the former England rugby player , had accused the club of operating a cartel to try to dominate the secondary market in tickets for the two-week event . |
| 8 | Rather , it is efficient to deliberately introduce a new distortion to the film industry to help counterbalance the inevitable distortion in the meals industry . |
| 9 | The company , established 25 years ago , received a £120,000 grant from the Department of Trade and Industry to help finance the new investment . |
| 10 | Bachelor Dr Smith , of Northampton , said he and his father had remortgaged their homes to help meet the growing bills . |
| 11 | Buckinghamshire County Council 's Draft Structure plan earmarks the area for the building of 4,000 homes to help meet the expected housing needs of Milton Keynes by the year 2011 . |
| 12 | Eva and her emergency team were amongst the first on the scene taking in food and clothing , and assessing the need for financial aid to help rebuild the shattered homes and schools . |
| 13 | But he had the backing of what the chronicler calls the ‘ more foresighted ’ part of the council , and this tacit approval suggests that the argument was not simply that of an ‘ anti-Woodville ’ faction , but represented a genuine attempt to avoid rocking the political boat — an attitude in line with what is known of council policy . |
| 14 | But he had the backing of what the chronicler calls the ‘ more foresighted ’ part of the council , and this tacit approval suggests that the argument was not simply that of an ‘ anti-Woodville ’ faction , but represented a genuine attempt to avoid rocking the political boat — an attitude in line with what is known of council policy . |
| 15 | Pictures to help obliterate the hideous truth : that suddenly , one night before another Christmas , in 1992 , their child was savagely beaten , then dumped , half-naked , in a water-filled gravel pit , a mile from her home . |
| 16 | In November 1963 , President Kennedy visited Texas to help unite the warring factions in the Democratic Party in that key southern state . |
| 17 | One of the significant sub-themes of de Klerk 's visit was his assertion of South Africa 's readiness to help revive the economic fortunes of its neighbours in southern Africa . |
| 18 | They are to visit the 1993 Games in Vancouver to help to plan the five-day event , which will be open to athletes who have received organ transplants . |
| 19 | He has taken steps to help resolve the financial difficulties and hopes to return to a normal trading position in due course . |
| 20 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 21 | The first neutrons to arrive had the highest energy and the later ones had lower energies . |
| 22 | The colt is the only horse to have beaten the flying Arazi and is a stablemate of Tertian , the 6–1 favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 . |
| 23 | After further clashes in mid-September near Dire Dawa and Harar town , the two organizations sent a joint delegation to attempt to reconcile the various groups . |
| 24 | In the conventional view , data are collected by the sponsor of a study to attempt to answer the specific questions posed . |
| 25 | Just told the older kids to stop frightening the younger ones . ’ |
| 26 | Einstein , therefore , set to work to try to demolish the accepted version of quantum mechanics . |
| 27 | Helen Pearson , lecturer in medical education at the University of Leicester , has introduced a scheme whereby SIFT money ( service increment for teaching ; the additional resources provided by the NHS to help offset the extra costs of providing health care in a teaching hospital ) is allocated to hospital departments in proportion to the amount of actual teaching that students receive . |
| 28 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 29 | ‘ Since I had all the arrangements made for the trip , I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some sponsorship to help replace the missing equipment . ’ |
| 30 | Experienced social workers from Strathclyde were drafted in to Orkney to help remove the nine children alleged to have been sexually abused from South Ronaldsay . |