Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The university authorities seemed to trust the students . |
| 2 | Shortly after Chaptal 's publication a few Champagne manufacturers began to add the sugar , not at the time of pressing , but immediately prior to bottling in order to promote the second fermentation or , as the French call it , the prise de mousse . |
| 3 | Eastern bloc states refused to attend the Los Angeles Olympic Games , East Germany 's Erich Honecker cancelled a visit to West Germany , and Reagan was re-elected as US President . |
| 4 | It was argued that in the verbal rehearsal condition subjects had to name the picture probe before a match could be performed on a verbal basis , while in the imagery condition a match could be made directly . |
| 5 | As war approached , growing numbers of PPU supporters came to accept the necessity of abandoning these unhappy attempts at political engagement . |
| 6 | Sadly , however , a few Opposition Members sought to block the Bill as it neared the end of its passage through Parliament . |
| 7 | Indeed , over 20% of sole practitioner respondents appeared to accept the proposal . |
| 8 | Over the following five years , in a textbook case of the value of basic research , the microprocessor programmers learned to adapt the ideas worked out by the academic researchers , and in doing so created a new , if quite small , industry . |
| 9 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 10 | Away to the left was a small encampment of black nomad tents , their side flaps hoisted to catch the afternoon breezes . |
| 11 | To gain recognition unions had to accept the logic and rules of the capitalist system . |
| 12 | THE battle for the ownership of ITN , the TV news service , took a fresh turn yesterday when the bidding companies decided to extend the offer to November 18 . |
| 13 | Trumpets sounded , press-men hoisted their notebooks and their Kodaks , and cinema newshounds began to crank the handles of their cameras . |
| 14 | Council officials refused to allow the chemicals to be used unless it could be shown they were not harmful to humans . |
| 15 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 16 | The Green Belt around London has been preserved not because someone put a price on it but because voters in the Home Counties wanted to stop the city sprawling outwards seemingly for ever . |
| 17 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |
| 18 | And when agents or casting directors deigned to see the show , and stayed to the end , which was rare , the actors crowded around them afterwards , buying them drinks and roaring with laughter at anything they said . |
| 19 | The leader sounds relieved to reach the belay . |
| 20 | Most of these were already being worked on , but three chief officers , together with the director of purchasing and three unit general managers decided to form The X Factor Group . |
| 21 | Only 24 hours earlier conference delegates voted to reduce the unions ' voting strength . |
| 22 | Income tax thresholds were raised from G$10,000 to G$48,000 with lower tax rates planned to offset the withdrawal of personal allowances . |
| 23 | He 's been told he and twenty nine other senior council officers will have to pay back golden handshake payments made to streamline the council 's management . |
| 24 | A state of emergency was declared as the homeland 's security forces failed to restrain the rioting . |
| 25 | When the security forces sought to empty the pastor 's house of its possessions , a human chain of several dozen formed around the house , setting in train a flood of protest that was to escalate into what appears to have been a massacre on Sunday . |
| 26 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
| 27 | As Irish people are given naturally to speculating over ‘ CIA plots ’ , their excitement when real CIA security men arrived to safeguard the President can be imagined . |
| 28 | The industry used local resources ; charcoal and other articles were made from wood ; iron and silver ores were processed and fashioned ; and flax , hemp and wool were spun and woven into clothing , the Italian Chimney sweeps came to symbolize the migration at its most miserable , but other persons repaired watches or became itinerant vendors of fabric , haberdashery , and other items . |
| 29 | A hearth tax agreed in the autumn of 1367 aroused particularly bitter opposition , and two Gascon lords refused to levy the tax in their domains . |
| 30 | IT TOOK three head-on rail collisions before safety specialists started to analyse the risk at controversial junctions , a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday . |