Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 2 | Whether your hair has been chemically treated or not , you should take extra rich products to put back the moisture removed by the sun , sea and chlorine . |
| 3 | Whether specific plans to follow up the lesson have been made . |
| 4 | There have not yet , however , been any far-reaching attempts to tie together the insights of the different disciplines and perspectives . |
| 5 | A greenhouse offers an unparalleled opportunity to extend both the season of growing and variety of plants you can raise . |
| 6 | Three members of the Supreme Court , Justices Brennan , Marshall and Blackmun , joined in a concurring opinion , rejecting the view of the majority that each forum had , in effect , complete freedom to decide when the Convention should control ; it was ‘ implausible ’ that that represented the intention of the drafters of the Convention . |
| 7 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 8 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |
| 9 | Last week the President instructed the Department of Commerce to seek firm proposals from private industry to take over the government 's remote-sensing satellites . |
| 10 | Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower . |
| 11 | Forgive my curiosity to see her : I prodded the ball of workers with a long stick , in a vain attempt to flush out the queen . |
| 12 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 13 | People close their windows at night in a vain attempt to shut out the sound of sirens and gunfire . |
| 14 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 15 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 16 | An introductory programme to show how the service works and how to get the most from the accompanying training materials . |
| 17 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 18 | Mr Patten played Cinderella last night and cancelled a private engagement to carry on the polishing while Margaret went to the Blue Ball . |
| 19 | Some water companies might let you have a meter in kit form , but you will have to ask locally , because most prefer a professional contractor to carry out the installation in case of possible back-siphonage or other problems . , . |
| 20 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 21 | At the same time , he was totally loyal to Franco and unlikely to seek Allied aid to bring back the monarchy . |
| 22 | Eachuinn Odhar closed his watery eyes to shut out the din , smiling dimly . |
| 23 | The Conservative Party took the rare step of disclosing the amounts after Prime Minister John Major faced a demand from Labour leader John Smith to change the law , forcing political parties to make public the donations they received . |
| 24 | Despite Adam 's devious attempts to play down the collaboration behind this superb work ( several resplendently bound copies are on display ) , credit is now given to James 's role as project manager , co-ordinating teams of engravers in Venice , Rome and London over the seven years before publication in 1764 . |
| 25 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 26 | All this formed a background to the first century of crusading ; and it goes some way to explaining the more secular aspects of the magnetism which drew French knights to take up the cross in their thousands . |
| 27 | As we have seen , this may apply for perfectly sound reasons to research where the determinand or matrix is especially exotic . |
| 28 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 29 | In the case of the simple penal code , the essential reason it is in the interest of a firm in this case to carry out the threat of punishment is that it believes that if it does not it itself will be punished . |
| 30 | I packed up three months ' baggage and bought yet another case to bring home the excesses of my shopaholism , wrote down the addresses of many new friends and drove to New York to meet a really old one . |