Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 2 | Legislation created a host of unemployed bureaucrats , municipal and seigniorial officials , who exhibited what liberals called ‘ passive ’ opposition to the constitution — the refusal of local authorities to carry out the administrative changes and apply the laws of the Cortes . |
| 3 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 4 | She was standing at the gas-stove , turning a plucked chicken over the flames to singe away the tiny feathers left behind in the skin . |
| 5 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 6 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 7 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 8 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 9 | The aims of the research will be : to obtain a national picture of the approaches to assessing the quality of schooling to develop a typology of these approaches and an understanding of their different rationales to establish how the various approaches are perceived by those involved to explore , through detailed case studies , how the different approaches influence the practice and development of schools , both in the short and medium terms . |
| 10 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 11 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 12 | I fully understand the considerable cross-party support for what was said in the ten-minute Bill , but it is important that we wait a few months to see where the European Court comes down . |
| 13 | PWMI has studies these sectors to work out the average lifetime for the material in the market . |
| 14 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 15 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 16 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 17 | She pushed him away , closing her eyes to shut out the present image of his face . |
| 18 | He pressed his hands to his eyes to shut out the dreadful picture . |
| 19 | Thames Valley Police have rounded up some of the world 's fastest cars to ram home the anti-speeding message . |
| 20 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 21 | In fact development of Housing Action Trusts to deal with particularly run-down estates and Scottish Homes to break up the public sector suggests an alternative vision , based on state-sponsored restructuring and renewal from above , rather than individual choice . |
| 22 | For conservatives , this policy is part of a trend to encourage private initiatives and voluntary organizations to take over the traditional government role in the health services ( SCF , op. cit . ) . |
| 23 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 24 | Each door and drawer is individually finished by craftsmen to bring out the full beauty of the grain . |
| 25 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 26 | Some mobile phone retailers are now supplying the once popular car phone free , bar an installation charge , and rely on bill-related bonuses to make up the entire profit . |
| 27 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 28 | The 62-page report , which sets out to establish both market share information by vendor and key trends , attempts to pinpoint where the real opportunities lie and provides some nifty competitive data . |
| 29 | The manager may take on that role but the new volunteers may find that they lack support as the manager is likely to be too busy with other duties to carry out the in-bureau training task thoroughly . |
| 30 | Hardy needed three rounds to work out the Mexican southpaw before taking over . |