Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
2 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
3 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
4 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
5 | How would you like to lead out the Merseyside Select XI at Goodison Park a week tomorrow when they take on the pride of Manchester in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial game ? |
6 | Sprinkle sharp sand along the slit — enough to fill in the bottom 4–5 inches ( 10–12cm ) or so . |
7 | Stephen Hughes , MEP for Durham and Blaydon unveiled the competition to draw up the Ecu European Currency Unit during a visit to the school . |
8 | But despite their limitations , circulation measures can provide librarians with a good deal of valuable information for the assessment of stock and user needs , and the promoters of automated circulation systems have been quick to point out the facilities such systems offer for a closer analysis of detail . |
9 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
10 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
11 | Those resources in property and money could be put to good use to top up the £23 million housing improvement programme allocation this year , the £12.5 million of estate action money , the £71 million of Housing Corporation money and the £15 million for the vacant dwellings initiative . |
12 | The full extent of the pollution was , however , less than had initially been feared , with gale force winds helping to break up the 40km long slick . |
13 | All Soviet technicians were withdrawn ; trade between the two countries dropped off sharply ; and a series of hostile open letters was exchanged , the Chinese accusing the Russians of ‘ revisionism ’ while the Russians accused the Chinese of ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ splittism ’ ( or of attempting to break up the world communist movement ) . |
14 | The fire brigade were called in to take down the ropes that year . ) |
15 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
16 | Carmen Callil and Julie Burchill are not the only celebrities to have been approached by the Sunday Times with an offer to take over the £60,000-a-year literary editorship of the paper from John Walsh . |
17 | Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle . |
18 | Can we be certain that aggregate demand will be sufficient to take up the OQ 1 units of output produced ? |
19 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |
20 | They will be used to bring in the rock crushing plant , the industrial chemicals and the explosives . |
21 | Mr Wheeler , now moving to the rear of the plant to show off the £2m smoke-cleaning section , which had just broken down , pointed out that his company achieved destruction of at least 99.9999 per cent of all materials . |
22 | Rain made a mental note to get Holly to follow up the story next day , she could visualize it leading the column on Friday unless anything better turned up . |