Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The morning after the general 's briefing , Iraq brought its latent air capability out of hiding , and tried to hit allied warships in the Gulf . |
| 2 | ‘ In spite of that , we still managed to bowl 128 overs in the day . ’ |
| 3 | The government remained reluctant to implement political reforms along the lines suggested by Soviet President Gorbachev , however , preferring to maintain its traditional Marxist-Leninist model of development . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the shareholders as the principal were entitled to issue specific instructions to the directors which as agents they were obliged to implement . |
| 5 | It is possible to climb the circular stairs to enjoy far-reaching views from the towers and battlements . |
| 6 | He said that the PLO would call on all Arab states to implement economic sanctions against the USA . |
| 7 | Dungannon 's Darren Clarke followed Friday 's sizzling 66 with a 71 to go eight shots off the pace . |
| 8 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 9 | The conference will be held as part of the European summit in Rome next December and the aim will be to agree far-reaching changes to the Community 's constitution to achieve Economic Monetary Union ( EMU ) as soon as possible after 1992 . |
| 10 | With that said , however , it is still possible to produce impressive results provided that opportunities to plant tall trees in the middle of the road are taken . |
| 11 | Editors still had to submit their material for inspection ( after it had been printed , but before it was distributed ) ; they could be penalized both by indictment in the courts and by direct action on the part of the Minister of Internal Affairs ; and they had to lodge monetary bonds with the authorities to facilitate the payment of fines if the government moved against them . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the continuing need to protect British interests and to support friendly states in the Middle and Far East , they recommended that steps should be taken to build up RAF Transport Command 's capacity to provide greater strategic and tactical air mobility . |
| 13 | It was always a Russian ( and later a Soviet ) ambition , for instance , to acquire warm-water ports to the south , and to develop a network of client states in Eastern Europe to strengthen the country 's defences against the other continental powers . |
| 14 | The classroom observations ( see 1a ) were written up in the form of case studies , to include descriptive accounts of the pupil 's microcomputer use , teachers ' class organisation and intervention occurrences . |
| 15 | There are many requirements to be met in order to conduct licensed premises within the scope of the law : |
| 16 | Visibility was not good because of approaching darkness but the crew were able to see some trees at the approach end of the field . |
| 17 | It was just possible to see some buildings in the distance . |
| 18 | I am particularly pleased to have been able to see through the work to stamp out default and to promote high standards in the profession . ’ |
| 19 | The British introd-uced the poll tax to colonial Kenya precisely to drive self-sufficient villagers into the plantation economy to earn the real money to pay it . |
| 20 | He was referring to a development of a policy document first published in early May 1989 , calling for the state sector " to issue public tenders for the sale of all profitable or non-profitable production , service and trade units , with the exception of important and strategic units " . |
| 21 | The company has also introduced a network licensing scheme to enable tools and compilers to support different versions of the Solaris environment interchangeably . |
| 22 | Community wildlife officer Dave Muir and Ann Lolley of the Tidy Britain Group join local people to plant British wildflowers at the Children 's Forest in Pennywell , Sunderland , on Wednesday . |
| 23 | You should be on the look-out for any grammatical or contextual clues which are being used to signal different senses of the meaning , and which are automatically understood by the native speaker . |
| 24 | After the decision to suspend further negotiations on the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide [ see p. 38716 ] , the Haitian Senate voted on Feb. 13 to resume talks under the auspices of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 25 | However by Key Stage 2 pupils should be encouraged to compare different elements in the past — the differences between the Celtic and the Roman armies , for instance , or the lifestyle of the Celts and the changes that the Romans introduced to Britain . |
| 26 | The revenues from North sea oil and privatisations helped this Government to restore public finances to the kind of good shape that those of few other countries are in . |
| 27 | Holograms are 3 dimensional images of scenes and events , enabling the viewer to look around from side to side , up and down to see different areas of the subject . |
| 28 | Naturally those anthropologists who grant culture such imperative force tend to see social relations as the product of cultural patterning and conditioning , and thus tend to concentrate on child-rearing practices , enculturation , and socialization . |
| 29 | Brightness 's destiny — so we were informed — was to be returned to prison where she will have to perform mindless tricks for the entertainment of rouble-paying humans . |
| 30 | The pilots were able to search some areas below the fog , but said visibility was almost nil at higher levels . |