Example sentences of "[verb] forward the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in luck , for the sky was still murky and a thin drizzle falling , excuse enough for him to cover his head and shadow his face within his capuchon , and for her to pull forward the hood of her old cloak , and hide within it . |
| 2 | This could mean that they will become major forces driving forward the concept of sport , leisure , cultural and artistic movements during the 1990's . |
| 3 | Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful . |
| 4 | The statues of Athena and Zeus respectively at Athens and Olympia by the sculptor Phidias carried forward the tradition , but the figures in which flesh was rendered in ivory and hair and garments in beaten gold were in this case around forty feet high . |
| 5 | Through our International Monetary Fund membership , we have pushed forward the idea that the CIS countries should come under the IMF . |
| 6 | Community care has pushed forward the idea of bringing more people out of institutions to live as independently as possible . |
| 7 | The HSWP government published in September 1989 an amended economic reform programme which put forward the reduction of state ownership , easing restrictions on private businesses , and creation of a market economy , with the use of foreign capital . |
| 8 | Although addressing a different problem , Ruttan ( 1982 ) along with Boserup ( 1981 ) both put forward the idea of ‘ induced innovation ’ as the means by which research and development of agricultural technology is directed to address appropriate problems both by the state and farmers themselves . |
| 9 | One theoriser , Seville Chapman , put forward the idea that a fielder used trigonometry without realising what he was doing , making unconscious calculations from the rate at which the tangent of the angle of the elevation of the ball changes . |
| 10 | The story really begins in 1935 when Hideki Yukawa , a Japanese theorist , put forward the idea that the forces operating in the atomic nucleus should have associated with them specific ‘ exchange ’ particles . |
| 11 | In fact the first person to say it was anthropologist Thomas Hornsby Ferril , who wrote an article in the Rocky Mountain Herald in December 1955 that put forward the idea that American football is actually a : |
| 12 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 13 | I I I er put forward the idea that twenty five percent was dying out , this . |
| 14 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 15 | Galbraith ( 1976 ) put forward the idea that in the technological world the technology is so demanding that a given new technology is handled in the same way anywhere in the world no matter what the local culture . |
| 16 | Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter . |
| 17 | In the weeks which followed NATO representatives , presenting NATO as a vital factor in the maintenance of stability within Europe , put forward the alliance 's views on the developments in Eastern Europe and plans for NATO 's future . |
| 18 | The results have to be published and should not be only of interest to the client group who put forward the proposal . |
| 19 | This time , the chief of the Nationalist Airforce , General Kindelán , put forward the proposal that , for the duration of hostilities , the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces should also have responsibility for " all national activities : political , economic , social , cultural , etc . " |
| 20 | You questioned Mr Mayor at the city board when I put forward the proposal to increase the er turnover figure from three percent to four percent . |
| 21 | They put forward the notion that we construct routine groupings of aspects of experience , schemata , which tend to occur regularly together . |
| 22 | Gallus himself died in 551 , and at his death the local clergy put forward the name of the priest Cato ; the bishops officiating at the burial of Gallus offered to consecrate Cato there and then , and to square the appointment with the king , who was only a minor , subsequently . |
| 23 | The followers of Eufrasius resorted to simony , backed by the financial support of the Jews , but the clergy put forward the name of Avitus . |
| 24 | In 1970 , I put forward the concept of ‘ primary leys ’ : a structure into which all other leys were supposed to fit . |
| 25 | The demand was heavy , for a payment of one-sixth on the goods of the laity and of one-third on those of the clergy , and some men refused payment outright , while others put forward the plea that they could not afford to pay . |
| 26 | Harry MacAdoo , then the Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin , on several occasions put forward the argument that Southern protestants were a minority group with their own culture and traditions , and thus deserved to have schools for themselves in order to hand on their own traditions . |
| 27 | Those which used Aube wines put forward the argument that the Aube was not only part of the historic province of Champagne , but its chief town , Troyes , was the ancient provincial capital and once the seat of the counts of Champagne . |
| 28 | On the basis of their findings , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) put forward the suggestion that latent inhibition derives from a loss of effectiveness by the specific cues that characterize the CS ( and thus requires pre-exposure to that very stimulus ) , whereas neophobia is taken to be a reaction to the aversive properties of novelty per se and can be attenuated by prior exposure to any other novel event ( see also Braveman 1978 ) . |
| 29 | For the first time in its history the 1935 Annual Conference of the ILP was attended by a fraternal delegate from the Communist Party , Harry Pollitt , who put forward the policy of " organizational unity " , that is of merging both Parties , now equal in membership , into a single unit . |
| 30 | The government 's crusade against that ( often Tory ) opposition will bring forward the day when Britain can confidently return to ’ go ’ . |