Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo . |
| 2 | The government , through a rigorous cash limits approach , is forcing local authorities to carry out most of the unpopular cuts in actual services . |
| 3 | Although interest rates and inflation were both falling , Britain had to struggle through one of the worst recessions since the war . |
| 4 | THE aborigines are back , this time before Paul Keating , the latest prime minister to grapple with one of the trickiest problems in Australian politics : aborigines ' rights . |
| 5 | Thus , despite the fact that he had dealt with the relationship of town and countryside at a very abstract level Bukharin did try to grapple with some of the fundamental , enduring and concrete problems arising from the revolutionary transformation of the economy . |
| 6 | The entry list for next Saturday 's Bangor classic 10k is really starting to sparkle with three of the Liverpool-based Kenyan international stars coming to the Co Down event . |
| 7 | Most of my contact with other musicians has been with other improvising musicians , and to get to work with one of the major American composers on something like that was fascinating . |
| 8 | As the argument over tax bases and tax rates is by no means over , it appears appropriate to comment upon some of the principal proposals . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) The offer must be made to all shareholders of the same class and shareholders must be allowed to accept in full for the relevant percentage of their holdings . |
| 10 | jobs which involve using heavy domestic equipment , or climbing steps and taking down curtains can be a real problem , and the thorough spring-clean they always used to do becomes a complete impossibility if they happen to suffer from one of the common disorders of old age , such as arthritis or heart trouble . |
| 11 | Both these parties would also abolish the assisted places scheme by which children of poorer parents are able to benefit from some of the best schools in the country , and will hand City Technology Colleges over to local authorities . |
| 12 | 4.2.2.1 each Party hereby undertakes to each of the others fully and promptly to communicate to each of the other Parties all such technical information relating to background and results as such other may reasonably require to carry out its respective part of the Project or to which such other Part is entitled pursuant to Clause hereof |
| 13 | If you would like to visit the University we would urge you to try to come to one of the listed visiting days . |
| 14 | THE AUSTRALIANS have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same single-mindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year . |
| 15 | Cretaceous birds are generally scarce , and some of the ‘ toothed ’ birds that are known , like the flightless , aquatic Hesperornis , seem to be difficult to relate to any of the living species . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , he joined the company in 1970 as a sewing machine mechanic but was soon moved to work on one of the large printers . |
| 17 | ( Paradoxically , married women tended to be put to work on many of the heaviest jobs , where welfare provision was least effective . ) |
| 18 | I have asked Lord Ferrers to work on this with the Chief Police Officers , Sir George Young at the Department of Environment and Nick Scott at the Department of Social Security to draw up a strong package of measures which can improve our ability to protect the rural public against these parasites . |
| 19 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 20 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 21 | If the housing market in southern England remains as tight as it stands in 1988 , then the problems created by recent trends in social polarization are unlikely to diminish at any of the three scales treated in this chapter . |
| 22 | Summer brightness is much easier to come by both from the deciduous foliage of shrubs and from herbaceous plants . |
| 23 | To identify them it is usually essential to clean off most of the enclosing rock , otherwise one can be misled by superficial resemblance . |
| 24 | Drink and football are linked by such a strong umbilical cord in Scottish culture that it is virtually impossible to talk about one without the other encroaching . |
| 25 | However , the initiative was welcomed by Jordan , Yemen and the PLO and went on to serve as one of the main diplomatic planks of the pro-Iraqi Arab bloc . |
| 26 | The problem bids fair to rank as one of the unsolved mysteries of the British constitution of longest standing . |
| 27 | The plan is for the theatre to open in 1993 with the first season of Shakespeare plays . |
| 28 | The persuasiveness of Lugard 's arguments owed something to his extraordinary personal reputation , which happened to conform to that of the finest imperial type . |
| 29 | I used to pick on some of the soft ones to survive . |
| 30 | Bermúdez , however , was a vocal opponent of any political accommodation with the FSLN and was known to have been planning to visit to one of the special resettlement regions for former contras [ for details of unrest among former contras in November 1990 see pp. 37849-50 ] . |