Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | The sailors have local institutions , but , from causes not unconjecturable , they do not appear to help forward the cause of seafarers . |
| 3 | Sometimes too much can be expected of an opportunity to put forward the company 's point of view . |
| 4 | The argument so far has been intended to put forward the possibility that an art work or image could be official and coercive , and unofficial and subversive , all at the same time . |
| 5 | To that end , a working party was set up consisting of members of the Legal Services Committee and representatives of the CLE including the Dean , to work on the detailed proposals of the Law Society once they were made available and to put forward the Bar 's view . |
| 6 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 7 | This is not to advocate that Nizan should be judged solely by criteria acceptable to Nizan individually or the communist party as a whole , but it is to put forward the idea that Nizan 's situation as a communist writer in interwar France needs to be given prominence in any assessment . |
| 8 | It is suggested that a spokesman on public affairs could be appointed to put forward the Church 's viewpoint on the political situation . |
| 9 | ‘ I in no way wish you to think that I am suggesting that delays and loss of documents should be treated lightly , but I would like to put forward the view that it was not within the power of my client to remedy the situation they took over from an authority since re-organised under Section 5c of the Reorganisation of Ancillary Services ( Domestic ) Act . |
| 10 | I 'd like to put forward the argument that it was by trying to accomodate Cuntona , Wallace and Chappie together at the start of last season that made us a soft touch away from home . |
| 11 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 12 | The way for ecclesiastical expansion was prepared by conquest or marriage , and we must admire the consistency of effort with which , despite his other distractions , Anselm took advantage of the situation to press forward the authority of Canterbury in all areas . |
| 13 | Over-provision has a sort of knock-on effect that er whatever we provide this time , we shall be asked to provide at the next revision of the structure plan and so if we can keep some land back this time , then that might be what we offer next time , we have to roll forward the structure plan . |
| 14 | Alongside resolutions on Russia and Peace , the Convention called for the immediate restoration of civil liberties , and for the establishment of all-inclusive local committees to carry forward the agitation — provocatively named Workers ' and Soldiers , Councils . |
| 15 | After yesterday 's discussions between Albion 's shop stewards ' committee and the STUC general council , a number of joint tactics have been agreed to carry forward the campaign to save the plant , whose future remains uncertain . |
| 16 | In particular , it was to carry forward the engineering and financial planning of a barrage between Penarth head and Queen Alexandra dock . |
| 17 | After talks in Cairo , the Egyptian President , Hosni Mubarak , has said that he and the Israeli Premier , Yitzhak Rabin , are in a position to push forward the peace process in the Middle East . |
| 18 | ‘ We are in the Premier League and in a great position to push forward the club and the town , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In Berlin Bismarck followed events in France with increasing interest and , judging the moment precisely , began once again to push forward the candidacy of Leopold of Hohenzollern to the still vacant Spanish throne . |
| 20 | I am trying to move forward the agreement with the Bank of Scotland and will keep you advised of progress . |
| 21 | On training , we plan to take forward the dynamic of the TEC movement . |
| 22 | With the government insisting on cutting back sulphur emissions from Scottish power stations , the company is likely to bring forward the opening date of the station by several years to 1992-93 . |
| 23 | At some point in the second half of next year , and perhaps even earlier if President Mitterrand decides to bring forward the abolition of French controls , the Government is going to be faced with an inescapable decision . |
| 24 | Helen and Tony were in the kitchen with the rest of the family when she reached home , all excitedly planning to bring forward the wedding to the first Saturday in October . |
| 25 | He praised Mr Michael Heseltine , environment secretary , for trying to bring forward the target date for reduction of carbon monoxide emissions . |
| 26 | He complained the decision to bring forward the start date for the £10 million sun sea and sex drama from September to July left him high and dry . |
| 27 | The object of orders for discovery under the Supreme Court and County Courts Acts is to bring forward the time for the disclosure of relevant documents in a personal injury action by , to use the wording of RSC Ord 24 , r7A , a " likely " party from the stage after action to the stage before action , and to require disclosure after the commencement of proceedings by someone who is not a party to the proceedings at all , eg , a health authority ( Walker v Eli Lilley & Co ( 1986 ) The Times , 1 May ) . |
| 28 | The next move was to bring forward the draft of the new constitution : the first that the Secretary of State knew of this was when he read a report in The Times ( 20 May ) headed ‘ A Republic of Burma ’ . |
| 29 | A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 . |
| 30 | It is to be hoped that everything possible is being done to bring forward the safety regime as quickly as possible . |