Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems are categorized in elaborate ways and rules devised to determine how the organization should respond to the arrival of any new problem falling into one or another of the existing categories . |
| 2 | The authorities sought to break down the mystique surrounding him , and to present him as a common criminal , parading him before 300 journalists on Sept. 24 in an iron cage erected on the patio of the Lima police headquarters . |
| 3 | In their private lives , many of the repealers sought to live out the ideal of companionate marriage . |
| 4 | The discovery was painful , and his heavy-lidded eyes narrowed to shut out the picture she made with them . |
| 5 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the British warships had to ride out the monsoon . |
| 7 | The factions agreed to boost significantly the powers of Prince Sihanouk within the SNC . |
| 8 | The defendants applied to strike out the statement of claim of the local authority on a preliminary issue on the grounds that the authority could not maintain an action in libel for words which reflected on it in relation to its governmental and administrative functions and that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action . |
| 9 | Although some schools were quick off the mark to evacuate their children , it was not until May 1940 when the German Wehrmacht overran Holland , Belgium and struck deep into northern France that schools in danger areas began to take seriously the need for evacuation . |
| 10 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 11 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 12 | The administrators wanted to question both the manager and assistant manager of BCCI 's Brompton Road branch , so made an application to the court under section 236(2) . |
| 13 | British officials sought to play down the significance of yesterday 's move . |
| 14 | State Department officials sought to play down the significance of the visit and insisted that the USA recognized only one state in Cyprus . |
| 15 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 16 | The bombardment of chilly droplets seemed to drive out the blackness of her thoughts . |
| 17 | This tendency , as Professor Joslin pointed out , accelerated once the landed classes came to appreciate both the security and the convenience of lodging a substantial part of their incomes with London banks . |
| 18 | Before the car could be moved , rescue workers had to shore up the building , which was in danger of collapse . |
| 19 | If Europe 's governments had to say why the ERM needs no repairs , they would say the following . |
| 20 | In hardly any time at all there was a satisfying crackling and an aromatic smell of burning wood as flames began to lick up the logs . |
| 21 | I tried to get a better grip but to my horror my fingers began to run down the door like melting plasticine as I watched from my perilous vantage point . |
| 22 | But what of the farmers expected to carry out the work in a time of recession . |
| 23 | Behind the scenes talks about a coalition programme were initiated and the party " managers met to share out the candidatures for the projected election . |
| 24 | The plaintiff vendors sought to set aside the expert 's decision and to have the court decide the matter , but the defendant purchasers said that the plaintiffs could not do that because the contract bound them to accept the expert 's decision . |
| 25 | In March representatives of more than 1,000 private firms decided to set up the Association of Private and Privatised Business , which they have invited Mr Gaidar to run.Two other lobbies for reform have come into being , the Entrepreneurial Policy Initiative and the Inter-regional Trade and Banking Union . |
| 26 | RECOVERY teams had to fight back the tears yesterday — after a lorry carrying thousands of pickling onions overturned near Wootton , Oxon . |
| 27 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 28 | From about 1983 the courts started to rein back the development they had unleashed . |
| 29 | Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation , leaving their money in high-earning accounts . |
| 30 | The plant 's operators decided to shut down the reactor and clean the rods . |