Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time these institutions are instructed to speed up the introduction of Hindi . |
| 2 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 3 | The problem is compounded when attempts are made to find out the costs of individual services when subsidies are paid line-by-line , rather than for whole sectors ; yet this is what RENFE 's 1984 programme contract with the state claimed to achieve ( RENFE 1984a : 80 ) . |
| 4 | But creditors are threatening to wind up the business unless six figure debts are paid . |
| 5 | Researchers are trying to sort out the difference in genetic make-up both in cancers and in normal tissue . |
| 6 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 7 | But unfortunately er it seems to fall on many deaf ears and we the Society as other many charities who deal with animals are left to pick up the pieces . |
| 8 | This concept is in keeping with the observations from the remedy provings , since the low potencies produce mainly physical symptoms , and the high potencies are required to bring out the full mental symptomatology . |
| 9 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 10 | At the beginning of 1937 steps were taken to sound out the feeling of the congregation about opening a Building Fund . |
| 11 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 12 | Under the Brady deal , the banks that made these swaps were asked to tear up the old loans and choose among three new deals in their place . |
| 13 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 14 | Andrew Lees , campaigns director of FoE , said : " While the public has a right to know about what companies are allowed to put down the sewers , the details of their actual discharges are kept secret " . |
| 15 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 16 | In parallel the three Managing Directors are starting to sort out the detailed issues connected with the new structure . |
| 17 | So the adapters are attempting to get up the career using sort of tried and tested ways of digging and sort of hauling each other up , and this sort of thing . |
| 18 | We term this the level of computer architecture , at which a set of logically integrated hardware functions are programmed to carry out the processing of data . |
| 19 | In defining these limits , Christians are trying to carry out the pattern laid down by God , who created our sexuality . |
| 20 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 21 | Self-evidently he does not go out and list them himself , and very early on historic building investigators were appointed to carry out the task and guidelines for listing drawn up . |
| 22 | Ice-blue blinds were lowered to keep out the noonday sun . |
| 23 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 24 | Pale colours were used to map out the image and fill in areas much as they might have been used in watercolour painting . |
| 25 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 26 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 27 | The securities firms are trying to prop up the tumbling stockmarket by cutting the supply of new issues . |
| 28 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 29 | Three other LEDs are used to set up the operating status , arranged in a horizontal ‘ traffic light ’ formation : red indicates that the input signal is below the Threshold level , yellow that it has reached Threshold , and the green that it is above Threshold . |
| 30 | Only after it is decided that company collection agencies are unsuitable for the job should outside agencies be contracted to fill in the gaps . |