Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then after the war , Disney and Reagan , he was running the Screen Actors Guild , they ganged up together to feed names to the McCarthy Committee … ’ |
| 2 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 3 | The possibility of permission being granted for such a hunt was thought to be instrumental in persuading Japan not to break ranks with the IWC . |
| 4 | Engineers have invariably passed through Western universities and polytechnics , which train them more to run projects for the Thames Water Authority than for undertakings in the Third World . |
| 5 | The Network was set up to enable journalists in the UK to campaign on behalf of journalists overseas who suffer human rights abuses . |
| 6 | Reports suggest Microsoft Corp has nearly completed a compiler that will be used internally to generate applications for the PowerPC RISC being developed by Apple , IBM and Motorola . |
| 7 | John Knight would like to sell the hull or cut it up to make souvenirs like the Berlin Wall . |
| 8 | The same is true in the US , where the banking sector has been eager for some time now to find loopholes in the Glass-Steagall Act 1933 ( which segregates to a large extent the banking and securities business ) and expand into other , more profitable , areas of financial service activity . |
| 9 | Suggesting that ‘ the end product of basic research is an increase in knowledge ’ in applied research he suggested it was first a product , e.g. an antibiotic , an artificial hand , a drought-resistant variety of wheat ; then a process , e.g. for the manufacture of an antibiotic , or for removing nitrogen oxides from exhaust gas ; then a method of operation , e.g. to prevent collisions in the English Channel , to speed up the delivery of letters , or to give advice , sometimes in the discharge of a statutory obligation ( the emphasis is mine ) . |
| 10 | AT TREVOR , I crossed the Dee by Thomas Telford 's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct , built nearly 200 years ago to carry barges on the Shropshire Union Canal across the deep valley ; then cycled up past the church on steep Methodist Hill , built surely as a penance for sinning churchgoers . |
| 11 | Adenauer 's foreign policy continued to cause some controversy and even to provoke divisions between the CDU and FDP by 1957 . |
| 12 | A COFFEE morning is being held today to raise funds for the Farndon and Holt branch of the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 13 | ‘ If a sensible Government would release adequate funding for higher education institutions — not least to maintain things like the Torrie Collection — then a situation like this is unlikely to have arisen . |