Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poet Marvell can thus be somehow separated from the political Marvell working to maintain the Interregnum 's government . |
| 2 | Cries of anguish were heard from the medical instructor , who was beginning to despair after seeing his practice resuscitation doll murdered by an overenthusiastic driver attempting to learn the principles of expired air resuscitation . |
| 3 | Political change helped to articulate the drive for reform . |
| 4 | Under such conditions the total correction required to counter the combination of the effects of wind and pressure meant subtracting 0.6m to 0.7m from the normal predicted tide level . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 6 | The same hopes as any other pensioner , unless of course that pensioner happens to hold the purse strings . |
| 7 | Although the single currency and the new powers for the European Parliament continue to grab the headlines , they are not the only issues to be hammered out at Maastricht next week . |
| 8 | In many stories of contests such as these , each contestant struggles to learn the identity of the other . |
| 9 | Former England spinner Nick Cook clashed with Wasim Akram when the Pakistani all-rounder tried to leave the field during a last-wicket partnership in the tourists ' match against Northants . |
| 10 | Private money tends to take the form of individual donations from friends and organisations associated with Highlander . |
| 11 | Another important feature is the professional judgement needed to discontinue the nurse/patient relationship when it is no longer relevant . |
| 12 | The deal , which also takes Nigel Jemson back to Forest , was agreed but neither club wants to complete the move before the two teams clash tomorrow . |
| 13 | This retrospective study aimed to analyse the survival of patients with an adenocarcinoma in columnar lined oesophagus in relation to surgical treatment , staging , and the differentiation grade of the tumour . |
| 14 | The Company were already building ships at their yard which was sited opposite the Customs House and the dry dock helped to consolidate the repair side of the business . |
| 15 | Nobody in this business is infallible , but if something does go wrong , the customer must know that the contractor has the technical resources and financial muscle to put it right ; just as that contractor needs to have the resources and skilled manpower to tackle any infestation , and be neither too big to care nor too small to cope . |
| 16 | But around 1955 various smart operators in the American and Canadian blasting industry began to see the light . |
| 17 | Emotional equilibration tends to reduce the possibility of social interactions of aggression or avoidance that would lower the maintenance of an individual 's potential inclusive fitness . |
| 18 | It is presumed that ivalon injected to plug the liver biopsy leaked intraperitoneally and caused the foreign body reaction seen . |
| 19 | If a successful parse was obtained then its probability was calculated by determining the product of the probability of each rule used to achieve the derivation . |
| 20 | Interestingly , the dielectric loss appears to match the loss modulus more closely than the loss compliance when data are compared for the same system . |
| 21 | In Punjab the confrontation between the central government and the administration of the Chief Minister , Nawaz Sharif , leader of the opposition Islamic Democratic Alliance ( Islami Jamhoori Ittehad-IJI ) , worsened as each side tried to destabilize the other by a variety of means after the failure in March 1989 of the PPP 's attempt to win a no confidence vote against Sharif in the provincial assembly ( see p. 37150 ) . |
| 22 | In the religious wars of the past , each side tried to convince the other of the truth of its own religion . |
| 23 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 24 | European investment tended to follow the flag . |
| 25 | Chelsea entertained Wimbledon at Stamford Bridge , but neither side managed to find the net , and they finished with a point apiece . |
| 26 | Will she therefore welcome the repeal last week of section 2 of the Kenyan constitution , as that action seems to pave the way for the introduction of multi-party democracy ? |
| 27 | Fitting the blade is easy using the allen key supplied to clamp the blade between the blade holder and a clamping plate as often found on jigsaws . |
| 28 | Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them . |
| 29 | The prefix " horse " in many plant names does not mean that the plant is a particularly delectable food as far as those animals are concerned ; it did in fact evolve from " coarse " , and in this case served to separate the plant from the one which actually supplied a radish root . |
| 30 | It leaves this to eventually crawl ashore and pupate among the roots of trees , to emerge as the adults — shown in this case mating to complete the cycle , the female returning to lay her eggs on the water . |