Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can we possibly claim that potatoes helped to win the battle of Waterloo ? |
| 2 | It was n't until the early 1950s that ferreters began to receive the benefits of locator systems . |
| 3 | Given that the market has ceased to be an effective mode of regulating the exercise of the economic power of the company it is hardly surprising that arguments employed to regulate the exercise of public power should have been drawn upon to regulate the private economic power of corporate managers . |
| 4 | In that long thin strip of middle England , with its old towns and charmless Birmingham commuter-belt estates , Tory canvassers heard time and time again that voters wanted to punish the government for the poll tax . |
| 5 | The story was that trainees had to pass the exam on the third attempt at the latest , or leave . |
| 6 | It was noted that linguists tended to use the concept of social class rather unreflectingly , primarily as a means of imposing some order on variable linguistic data collected from a large number of ( usually urban ) speakers . |
| 7 | Secluded that is , until climbers began to explore the crag . |
| 8 | Turner 's Automatic Points were installed at the Robin Hood junction , and cars coasted to take the corner for Anerley , but continued under power for the straight road to Penge . |
| 9 | Missionaries and preachers strove to switch the focus of hatred from the God of Change to the products of change dwelling in the interior . |
| 10 | But if subjects failed to recognize the stimulus in the Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) study ( as indicated by the occurrence of dishabituation ) , how could they show latent inhibition to that stimulus ? |
| 11 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 12 | ‘ American House and Gardens came to photograph the house and asked if we could provide 350 of these plates for their best advertisers . |
| 13 | He considers attempts by county councils to set up ‘ industrial liaison groups ’ through which firms were able to express their concerns over planning processes and procedures , and planners tried to influence the behaviour of firms . |
| 14 | The consultants and registrars undertook to see the X-rays and examine the patient , document appropriate treatment and countersign the request forms during the pilot study and until the training had been completed . |
| 15 | Both the Augustinians and Dominicans sought to combine the qualities of actives and contemplatives in their way of life and teaching ; they stressed the need for penance and man 's dependence on God 's grace for that illumination of understanding through faith and love that they believed was knowledge of God . |
| 16 | A possible explanation for this is suggested by the secondary case study ( West , Chapter 3 in this volume ) where it was reported that there were indications that heads of departments and years tended to bear the brunt of the review activities . |
| 17 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 18 | Friends and relatives continued to circle the liner in small boats ; a fox terrier , sent on ahead from Germany , was rowed out each day and held up towards the rail and its distant owners . |
| 19 | After the first decade of Alexander I 's reign censorship became progressively more heavy-handed , and under Nicholas I travel to the West was curtailed and efforts made to prevent the import of seditious books . |
| 20 | Because the event ( the jump ) is known in advance , the effects of practice and mastery could be assessed , and efforts made to influence the coping process . |
| 21 | At a microscopic level , the range of factors and substances behaved to influence the interactions between neurones has been greatly widened . |
| 22 | Finns began to express an interest in Karelia , acquired by the USSR following the Winter War ; and the Estonians and Latvians began to query the status of their boundaries with Russia . |
| 23 | Experiments and observations failed to resolve the controversy . |
| 24 | But in the event , most of the speakers and delegates appeared to relish the challenges that lay ahead . |
| 25 | Debris and tiny bodies circled like a halo of scurf , brightening periodically as those metal shards and corpses tilted to catch the sunlight of space … |
| 26 | The solicitors moved in , volunteers answered phones , typed documents , and novices learnt to operate the computers and word-processors . |
| 27 | Doubters , sceptics and Benthamites sought to dissolve the mystery in the clear light of reason , but succeeded only in creating a vacuum that was equally disturbing . |
| 28 | The spokesman said the Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages refused to accept the Bosnians even after it was given the text of a message from the vice president of Bosnia approving the flight . |
| 29 | Six days later , at the end of the customary debate on the Address , Labour and Liberals united to defeat the Conservatives by seventy-two votes . |
| 30 | Officers , workers and congressmen decided to fight the decision , mostly by persuading the Defence Base Closure and Realignment Commission to shut down Everett instead . |