Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — THE organisers of National Music Day are looking for clubs to help make the occasion a big success . |
| 2 | Roseberry 's musical background might go some way to explaining her ‘ good ear ’ as well as her sympathy for musicians trying to catch the attention of A&R departments . |
| 3 | Continual efforts to wring out every drop of water from our landscape by improving drainage for agriculture have made the glories of water meadows , winter floods and even overgrown streams extremely rare and precious . |
| 4 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 5 | While Communists had taken an active part in the 1926 General Strike and earned some support within the Miners ' Federation , most trade-union officials looked upon them as enemies trying to control the movement in the interests of a foreign organization . |
| 6 | Labour advocated measures such as nationalisation to help run the economy more efficiently and provide full employment with prosperity . |
| 7 | This demand for money arises to enable the community to fulfil its planned expenditures during the intervening periods between receipts of wages , salaries or other forms of income . |
| 8 | It 's thought that badgers can pass tuberculosis to cattle , but until now the only known test for TB involved killing the badger first . |
| 9 | Nigel Clough 's arrival at Liverpool , Wales ' World Cup prospects and his natural thirst for goals has left the Reds ' striker itching for action in a season which could turn out to be a memorable . |
| 10 | The best of these sausages are loose or in jars — I find that the necessary temperatures achieved during canning tend to make the sausages rather fatty and slimy in texture . |
| 11 | I then proceeded by recording a keystroke macro — that is I used the Record option on the Macros section of the Tools menu , typed in the filename BLOCKCNT into the dialog box that appeared and ran through steps needed to perform the task while the macro recorder was on . |
| 12 | At a crossroads three miles from the square that for centuries has represented the heart of imperial Russia , the independent marchers were told by police that Red Square was out of bounds . |
| 13 | Recall that transfer was good for subjects trained in a simultaneous discrimination to raise a flap bearing the positive stimulus through seven inches but was less good for subjects trained to raise the flap only half an inch . |
| 14 | The Women Artists Slide Library is presently applying for funds to continue to develop the library , run a fuller service for its members and users and to continue with this work for the next year . |
| 15 | Afterwards the plaster would be washed off and the brooms , now brittle twigs , would be used for months to come to sweep the floor . |
| 16 | You can use Edit — the editor supplied with DOS 5 — to search through data produced using the TREE command |
| 17 | Nkumbula 's departure came the day after parliament refused to accept the report of a committee which had investigated the abuse of public funds by Cabinet ministers . |
| 18 | All vegetation was dying , after July had felt the breath of January . |
| 19 | These successes for the SPD and the Greens were due in large measure to declining public confidence in Kohl 's leadership , especially after tax increases to meet the costs of unification became inevitable despite election promises by Kohl that they would not be necessary [ see pp. 37904 ; 38297 ; 38109 ] . |
| 20 | Mr Thomas , of the Bungalow Store , Stratford Road , Hartlepool , said he believed Jackie and a 16-year-old paperboy who she ran to for help had handled the situation well . |
| 21 | Drill start-holes for nails to avoid splitting the wood . |
| 22 | Digging spade Essential for winter digging to leave the soil rough , for digging trenches and large planting holes for shrubs , etc , and any other general shovelling . |
| 23 | However , a strong cup tradition backed up by five Monmouthshire titles in seven years and 18 Ben Francis Cup wins counted for nothing as Blaina struggled to find the consistency necessary to mount a successful promotion campaign . |
| 24 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 25 | On the Mar Lodge estate in the Cairngorms , red deer introduced for hunting have overrun the estate , threatening their own existence and the estate 's other wildlife . |
| 26 | High-yield-bond sales through Drexel helped finance the acquisitions that have turned Hasbro into America 's biggest toy company . |
| 27 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |
| 28 | It is common for defendants to resist allowing the plaintiff 's engineer access until the case is pleaded on the grounds that it is a " fishing expedition " . |
| 29 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 30 | The re-routing of the 126 service follows repeated pleas from the company for youngsters to stop hurling the stones Hostel blaze : Up to 30 people were evacuated from a DSS hostel in Sunderland after a fire in a bedroom . |