Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , everyone in the House will join in thanking those responsible for bringing about the peace conference that opened in Madrid yesterday . |
| 2 | After making a political volte-face he went on , without even a glimmer of embarrassment , to be responsible for bringing in the council tax . |
| 3 | Short-term money market accounts yielding high interest were abolished , to be replaced by a " Social Development Fund " where short-term money would be pooled to finance the debts of state and local government , blamed by the government as being primarily responsible for driving up the money supply . |
| 4 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 5 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 6 | Islip was sent off after bringing down the goalkeeper Iremonger ( they were ‘ probably two of the most hot-headed players in the League , ’ said the Examiner ) , then Mint of Notts County was also sent off for attacking Smith . |
| 7 | After wiring up the Xmas tree lights and programming the computer , even managed the washing up ! |
| 8 | After booting up the initiation sequence on my 700,000,000 Mb supercomputer , I fed in the works of supposedly brilliant Earth dwellers , namely Einstein , Newton and Wayne Campbell . |
| 9 | After cutting out the neck shape , the raw edge is enclosed with a double band , which can be backstitched on the right side and slip stitched into position on the wrong side . |
| 10 | After slipping down the exit ladder , the aircrew showed a mixture of feelings . |
| 11 | The England football captain has appeared on Simon 's show and it was after reading out the press report announcing that Gary 's wife Michelle is going to have a baby , that Simon told the world he was going to be a dad , too . |
| 12 | The current production is a triumph on every level , and after witnessing both the dress rehearsal and the initial performance , niggling criticisms are far overshadowed by the immensity of the achievement . |
| 13 | In Ashdown School , a school for young disabled people from 3 to 19 years old , the idea that the students could have a greater say in the decision-making within the school has been a topic for discussion for some time , particularly as part of drawing up the school development plan and of the staff development programme . |
| 14 | Evocation is the name given to the work of drawing out the life experience of each person by using the symbol . |
| 15 | These arrangements will be reviewed during the year with the aim of speeding up the performance reporting process . |
| 16 | A two-pronged attack was instigated — a placement student was asked torun a campaign with overseas customers for the return of packages and Castner Kellner works personnel investigated wsays of speeding up the refurbishment process . |
| 17 | Guidance on ways of speeding up the planning inquiry system which supersedes the previous rules contained in Statutory Instrument 1974/420 . |
| 18 | Everything would be ‘ in the melting pot ’ ; centuries of settled case law would be jettisoned , lost ; the whole process of building up the case law would have to start again ; or the definition would have to be construed and interpreted in the light of the old case law , with attendant problems . |
| 19 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 20 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 21 | The SDP had been formed in 1981 with the intention of opening up the centre ground of British party politics [ see pp. 30911-12 ] , but after the Social and Liberal Democratic Party ( SLDP — now termed Liberal Democrats ) was formed in March 1988 combining most members of the former Liberal Party and of the SDP [ see p. 36501 ] , David Owen led the rump as a " continuing " SDP . |
| 22 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 23 | And he will be one of the players given the job of keeping out the twin threat of Frenchman Eric Cantona and Lee Chapman . |
| 24 | Also high interest rates have the effect of driving up the exchange rate , which in turn can be damaging to exports . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) Rumours of a full bid may have the effect of driving up the target company 's share price . |
| 26 | This will have the effect of driving up the market price of long bonds , making their yield lower than normal , and perhaps even lower than short-term yields . |
| 27 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |
| 28 | Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water , I had put Mrs Joe 's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake . |
| 29 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 30 | There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice . |