Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team .
2 Des said : ‘ This trip will give me the opportunity to see how the adopted project is doing and feed back some information to Edinburgh . ’
3 Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible .
4 If it were possible to store all the different types of primary data in computer-readable form then it would become feasible to use the speed of the computer to carry out the required searches , comparisons , overlays and numerical modelling .
5 Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry .
6 First , the results below show that there is always smooth convergence of play to position where the long term player 's type is revealed .
7 In this regard it can be seen that in order for the catechesis to work effectively the various members of the group have to work as a team — the L.C. is responsible for presenting the symbol well ; having a good story that echoes the goal clearly ; and providing the opportunity for EACH person to share their story .
8 It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story .
9 However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends .
10 What appears in English balance sheets as ‘ goodwill ’ is , obviously , more than an attempt to capitalize just the accumulated effects of the advertising of companies acquired .
11 It was such a long trip , ’ she could n't help craning her neck to see where the old witch was .
12 Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication .
13 In particular Mosley was influenced by Lloyd George 's ability to bypass bureaucratic red tape and through dynamic activism attempt to tackle head-on the mounting problems of British society .
14 What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration .
15 The Comintern , completely disregarding their past policy , called upon " all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the united front of struggle with the social democratic workers through the medium of the social democratic parties " .
16 Unix System Labs , which is n't even a party to the action , has been subpoea 'd by the Open Software Foundation in its attempt to ward off the now-famous $100m antitrust suit lodged against it by Addamax Inc that Sun Microsystems Inc could wind up paying for ( UX Nos 404 , 331 ) .
17 According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations .
18 In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid .
19 It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record .
20 It is my intention to trace only the English language sources for the creation of Hercule Poirot .
21 If Protestant zealots were only partially successful in their attempt to sweep away the supernatural aura which had surrounded late medieval religion , their efforts to give the common people some grounding in knowledge of the gospels ‘ and a basic understanding of the Reformed theology of grace and salvation also met with only limited success .
22 Removal of the typesetting information from a dictionary to leave just the bare ASCII text loses useful information that the typography makes visually apparent .
23 It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’
24 Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules .
25 ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules .
26 ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules .
27 Pa shrugged himself into his coat and tied a muffler about his neck to keep out the cold February wind .
28 Secondly , it is an attempt to understand historically the formative relationships between class structure , political institutions , and property , as they operate in time .
29 Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence .
30 John Anderson , principal hydrologist with the Tay River Purification Board , is emphatic that any attempt to hold back the irresistible force of the Tay is doomed to failure .
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