Example sentences of "[vb past] forward the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But it was the railway which pressed forward the industrialization of the United States and of parts of Europe and which confirmed the continental power of Europeans in North America , Asia , Australasia , and Africa . |
| 3 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 4 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 5 | Further , the Prime Minister brought forward the deadline for nominations to the leadership contest to 15 November in order to force the hand of any challenger and to reduce the time available to mount an effective campaign . |
| 6 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 7 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 8 | Giving the opening address on June 19 , Gorbachev put forward the proposal that the conference should become the Russian Federation CP 's founding congress . |
| 9 | Addressing the Board , Mrs Copeland put forward the council 's case for the priority provision of a new library in Bangor in preference to Lisburn and nearby Newtownards . |
| 10 | In 1986 TVEI ceased to be experimental , and in the White Paper Working Together. : Education and Training the Government put forward the plan for a national scheme with the aim that ‘ all young people in schools should have the opportunity of following a more relevant and practical curriculum leading to the achievement of recognized standards of competence and qualifications ’ . |
| 11 | When she asked him if he would come with her to see Joanne he put forward the excuse of having his article to write , so Lyn went with Kevin . |
| 12 | It was Virchow in the middle of the nineteenth century who first put forward the concept of arterial wall injury leading to the development of the atheromatous plaque . |
| 13 | In more than one story Clifford Simak put forward the notion that the flesh-tones of dinosaurs might have been iridescent , rather than the drab grey-greens and browns depicted in so many artists impressions . |
| 14 | He put forward the proposition that adherence to the exchange rate mechanism is what causes unemployment in socialist France and socialist Spain . |
| 15 | Ms Foster put forward the idea of a similar investigation for plant and animal biotechnology because she was troubled by the unnecessary secrecy and seeming insensitivity of government departments to issues other than the narrow technical one of safety . |
| 16 | Stewart Wilson of the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford put forward the idea of using a Chinese sailing wheelbarrow instead of the two-wheeled cart which I was considering , and one of his students , Khalid Nazir , made a wooden prototype . |
| 17 | Our current committee chairman put forward the idea of ‘ a visit to an incident room and a talk on police/press liaison ’ . |
| 18 | Sharpe 's 1963 article put forward the idea that the return of any security could be related to the return of the market . |
| 19 | In 1829 Elie de Beaumont put forward the idea that the Earth is contracting and argued that compressional stresses set up in the crust as a result of the cooling of the Earth 's interior would give rise to faulting , folding and thickening of the crust , and eventually to the formation of mountain ranges . |
| 20 | He put forward the idea as a means of ending the fierce competition between the two airport companies , which are both putting forward major expansion proposals . |
| 21 | He put forward the idea as a means of ending the fierce competition between the two airports . |
| 22 | The subject of modern poetry coming up , which it might have been expected to do , D'Arcy put forward the view that the best of the younger poets was Louis MacNeice , because he had had a classical education . |
| 23 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 24 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 25 | Just before his own death Asimov completed Forward the Foundation , a new novel about Seldon 's last years . |
| 26 | From then onwards , and throughout the 1930s , the Conservatives operated within the National government and pushed forward the type of protectionist policies which both Baldwin and Chamberlain favoured . |
| 27 | He pushed forward the safety catch of his pistol . |