Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream . |
| 2 | They were described as designed to disadvantage the fledgling opposition parties which could expect substantial support from West German sister parties . |
| 3 | He moved to Lotus the following season and enjoyed his first win at Estoril . |
| 4 | His League career was terminated by a particularly nasty injury sustained at Sheffield just before Christmas 1923 , as ten-men Palace went down 6–0 to The Wednesday and , after recovering , he moved to Folkestone the following summer . |
| 5 | Torquay 's Paul Hall swung a frustrated punch at midfielder Steve Harrower , who reacted by appearing to head-butt the young winger . |
| 6 | I reapplied to Switchboard the next day . |
| 7 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 8 | The right-wing Tory rebels want to stymie the Social Chapter opt-out because , if they do , Mr Major says he will drop the entire treaty . |
| 9 | The man did the same again as he turned the paper , revealing to Mungo the front page with its lurid headline : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 10 | As he was picked to second the Loyal Address today , I think that he can confidently look forward after the next general election to a leading position on the Opposition Front Bench . |
| 11 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 12 | Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories . |
| 13 | If all goes according to plan the first stage will cost about $7m a day . |
| 14 | According to Eccleshall the Conservative Party , like Faust , has always been able to declare ‘ Two souls together live in my breast ’ , with the philosophy of a strong , paternalist authority competing with the notion of a strong , non-interventionist authority . |
| 15 | According to experts the other trick … is just to slow down . |
| 16 | Due to ship in 1994 , with an estimated product turnaround time of 90 days , the monster nCube 3 follows the same architecture as the previous nCube 2 models , enabling software compatibility across the range — the nCube president insists the new machine ‘ uses no magic ’ , and claims a full 65,000-processor configuration will be completely feasible — according to Meirer the whole thing would measure just 20 square feet , compared with Thinking Machines Inc 's Sparc-based TeraFLOPS-performance CM-5 which is estimated by Thinking 's Danny Hillis to measure the size of a tennis court in full 16,000-processor configuration . |
| 17 | According to G.B.S. the last thing of importance that had happened in this agricultural community was , perhaps , the Flood . |
| 18 | ( According to Worsley the associated notion of a ‘ pressure group ’ forms the bridge between formal and informal politics . ) |
| 19 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 20 | According to Petrobras the state-owned oil company and largest corporation in the southern hemisphere some $8.7 billion in dollars and cruzeiros have been invested in the Campos Basin alone and there are signs that the state may be taking a similar line in developing Brazil 's gas resources for energy . |
| 21 | Even if shot to pieces the commanding position of the banqueting hall would still make it defensible . |
| 22 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 23 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 24 | When Ika came to London the following year , he was to describe Buckingham Palace , by comparison , as ‘ a modest little house ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a peculiar fact of life that since tourism came to España the average height of our nation has increased dramatically . |
| 26 | Now Fenna rose , higher and higher , and , holding all his power for one sharp second of perfect concentration , revealed to Maggie the crazy onrushing of the galaxy where everything spins through space so fast that the observer is locked in stillness . |
| 27 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 28 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 29 | Different indices represent the ingenuity with which the theoretical constructs can be made to produce satisfactory elaborations that result in different indices and , equally important , the extent to which different indices can , plausibly , be said to measure the same concept . |
| 30 | This type of book may be said to ante-date the classical detective story , which we have called the template or original of most crime fiction . |