Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that the Government have decided so far is to cancel the scheme which British Rail spent hundreds of millions of pounds of our money developing . |
| 2 | " Just want to see the set-up my little girlie 's embarked on , " he had said down the telephone . |
| 3 | Administrative structures tend to mirror the problems which that organization encounters routinely ; each sub-organization has responsibility for different factors or problems . |
| 4 | But to write the word themselves Chinese children — those spoilt and individualistic ‘ little emperors ’ ? — will practice writing individual strokes for hours on end until they can get this horizontal or that vertical line exactly right . |
| 5 | The point of the metaphor of father is to indicate the experience which religious people have of God as a loving creator . |
| 6 | The senator found it hard to hide the rancour his own son provoked in him . |
| 7 | It is easy , however , for rhetoric about freedom and choice to blur the reality which professional workers encounter daily . |
| 8 | However , because it is very difficult in practice to evaluate the integrals which this method involves , this does not turn out to be a convenient method for obtaining explicit solutions . |
| 9 | In this situation , the marginal mover acquires the power to reinterpret the way his institutional structure governs a desire for a rigidified world of immobility , and to understand why , for example , those few policemen who move into other areas , such as probation work or the legal profession , become totally suspect . |
| 10 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 11 | The case was instructive from a number of standpoints but particularly in the way it appears to demonstrate the ability of LM potencies to reach the parts which other potencies can not reach ! |
| 12 | But sometimes a tin of Heinz 's best seems to reach the parts my homemade mash , carrots and gravy fails to reach . |
| 13 | Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else . |
| 14 | A much more positive way forward must be found , one which does justice to the insights of both sides , and which seeks to avoid the criticism which both sides must face as to how it is delivered in the classroom . |
| 15 | On Thursday morning , the children went to fetch the presents which other people had promised — eggs , meat , tomatoes . |
| 16 | He later took the floor again to explain his remarks as " shock diplomacy " , intended to illustrate the tone which Russian policy could adopt if the political opponents of President Boris Yeltsin were to come to power . |
| 17 | The fair performance of the German currency appeared to discount the difficulties which many traders envisaged in the wake of German unification and , more specifically , of the controversial decision to unite the East and West German marks at par value , a move which was to weaken confidence in the mark in early 1991 . |
| 18 | Norway has no immediate plans to leave the IWC which last year rejected plans from Iceland and Japan to catch a limited number of whales . |
| 19 | The wedding was set to give the royals their best publicity of the year . |
| 20 | William Brooke Joyce , to give the child his full name , was their first-born . |
| 21 | The new party will emerge out of the Solidarity chrysalis when Mr Walesa judges the time is right to give the venture his full blessing . |
| 22 | The sexuality of Black males is further emphasised in this short sequence by the comment , ‘ The terrible thing is , I am unable to give the chicks my full attention in this weather ’ , and ‘ the weather is turning my blood to ice ’ . |
| 23 | Now the present British government is very anxious to give the Russians our financial expertise rather than practical help to promote a market economy . |
| 24 | This may be partly due to its isolated geographical position , which has helped to give the country its intense feeling of national uniqueness , and its deep conservatism . |
| 25 | Here again , it seems to me that there is not only an opportunity but a necessity for Parliament to give the problem its urgent attention . |
| 26 | In electro magnetism , the repulsion between two electrons can be pictured as the exchange of a photon — a particle that has to be massless to give the force its infinite range , its inverse square law . |
| 27 | If the tribunal decides that the dismissal was unfair then it has the power to order the employer to give the employee his old job back or to give him another job . |
| 28 | It is now being adapted to give the Met its first method for running cost accounting in 150 years . |
| 29 | Once suitable terms have been settled and , one hopes , clearly and concisely set out in a signed agreement , you will be in a position to give the job your undivided attention , secure in the knowledge that you have created the right conditions for job survival . |
| 30 | Coun. John Williams , leader of Darlington borough council , said their £10.324m. standard spending assessment the amount the Government says they need to provide services was not enough to give the town its planned facelift . |