Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun pl] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sufficient time needs to be given to listening to the answer and then to prayer and ministry to meet the needs another member has . |
| 2 | In an attempt to demonstrate the benefits two heads cited improvements in public exam results as performance indicators . |
| 3 | Denver Broncos coach Dan Reeves paid for his team 's failure to reach the play-offs last night when he was sacked , less than 24 hours after their 42-20 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs . |
| 4 | And there 's enough psychological insight to give the characters three dimensions . |
| 5 | The success of the policing operation during the miners ' strike was not due to new laws passed by Parliament to give the authorities greater powers . |
| 6 | Things may change after April 2nd , when retail prices are to rise by 60% , though most workers are too afraid of plunging the country into chaos to give the miners whole-hearted support by staging their own strikes . |
| 7 | Madeleine put down her magazine and her cigarette to kiss the children good night . |
| 8 | The decision to hold the elections eight months before they were constitutionally due increased speculation that the aged President was preparing to transfer power to his son . |
| 9 | It was the same sort of hysteria after the Hungerford massacre which persuaded a weak and inexperienced Home Secretary to give the police unfettered discretion to bully , terrorise and generally make a nuisance of themselves among law-abiding sportsmen . |
| 10 | ‘ We have also proposed two new clauses , one requiring the Secretary of State for Employment to increase the amounts Industrial Tribunals can award to successful applicants . |
| 11 | Pilot of the lead aircraft , Glamorous Glen III , was Chuck Yeager , flying his aircraft , who led this formation down the display line to open the days flying programme . |
| 12 | All of Johnson Matthey 's money borrowings are in foreign currency to finance the groups overseas subsidiaries . |
| 13 | However , employees should if possible try to note their assailant 's appearance in order to assist the police subsequent enquiries . |
| 14 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 15 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |
| 16 | ( b ) Discuss the merits and demerits of using this form of note to reveal the ways historical information can inter-connect ( e.g. the direction of the relationship ) . |