Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a surge in voltage of this nature , short-lived or not , may be carried on the mains to other equipment in the vicinity . |
| 2 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn has thrown down the gauntlet to much-travelled striker Howard Gayle , who trained at the Racecourse for the first time yesterday . |
| 3 | KEVIN Keegan yesterday threw down the gauntlet to refreshed Newcastle winger Franz Carr . |
| 4 | A group of American venture capitalists laid down the law to European hopefuls at the Etre conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago . |
| 5 | Thus , one of the major criticisms formulated by the social movements of the 1960s , and by radical groups within socialist and labour parties , was directed against ‘ consensus politics ’ which placed a high value upon the existing parliamentary institutions and played down the commitment to radical changes in the social system . |
| 6 | Then moving down the table to outstanding planning consents , Whelan Road , Eggborough , three point three hectares . |
| 7 | Having narrowed down the list to local companies which promise a quick call-out service , you 're all set to dial . |
| 8 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 9 | He stressed that the US would abide by the Canal Treaty timetable to hand over the canal to Panamanian rule . |
| 10 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 11 | You could be opening up the way to new prosperity . |
| 12 | In turn these open up the field to considerable latitude of local interpretation . |
| 13 | send up the survey to old Hughey , he , he 'll give you a few . |
| 14 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 15 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 16 | It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] . |
| 17 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
| 18 | Government plans ( i ) to privatize state companies ( beginning with the projected sale of the state airline , Viasa , and the state telephone company , CANTV ) ; ( ii ) to cut subsides to the state sector ; and ( iii ) to open up the economy to foreign investment by a sharp reduction in tariffs , were also deeply unpopular and strongly opposed by trade unions . |
| 19 | Measures aimed at opening up the economy to foreign investment and the privatization of state companies continued apace throughout November . |
| 20 | He saw the Shah 's reform movement as designed to sell out the country to foreign powers , especially Israel and the Untied States , and he exhorted the mullahs to resist . |
| 21 | Check out the intro to Little Wing for more of this kind of 4th type fill — very useful indeed for ballads or minor blues . |
| 22 | When executive search consultants leave or retire , they are forced to sell back the equity to other partners who , on election to the partnership , are encouraged to purchase stock at an agreed rate . |
| 23 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |