Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , including Field Marshal Lord Roberts , at one time Commander-in-Chief of the British Army , were for landing at Antwerp to sustain the Belgian Army and pose an inhibiting threat to the German right wing . |
| 2 | ‘ We have now asked Reed to suspend the proposed changes until we have had a meeting with them on 22nd April . |
| 3 | A strong force of 26 heavy line-of-battle ships was based on Plymouth to protect the western approaches and patrol up-Channel towards the Nore , while Vernon himself took command of a smaller fleet , of rather weaker vessels , in the Downs , which could either sail west down the Channel or north-east to intercept an enemy making for the Thames estuary . |
| 4 | Mr Baker said it would be ‘ exceedingly difficult ’ for Mr Gorbachev to revitalise the Soviet economy but it was premature to predict failure . |
| 5 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 6 | In real life , Edward returned unexpectedly from Swindon to visit the Noble household and , though unable to see his dying mentor , became a support to Mrs Noble and her daughters , while his friendship with Helen grew into love . |
| 7 | Would it not be nice for the SRU to encourage the latter course and pick a full Scotland team to meet them , treating the match as a full ‘ capped ’ game ? |
| 8 | He pulled out the battered sea captain 's telescope that he had bought in Caen to replace the expensive glass that he had lost after Toulouse . |
| 9 | It appeared that sympathetic foreign governments regarded exports to Lithuania to alleviate the Soviet blockade as diplomatically contentious . |
| 10 | Long term care could develop , allowing the NHS to use the highest standards and train the staff required to run the private facilities . |
| 11 | Architects and craftsmen came to Russia to build the first churches and to share their experience with the Russians . |
| 12 | She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball . |
| 13 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 14 | We visited Ferrymead on Waitangi Day to see the penny-farthing races and a staged Victorian wedding , and I had a ride on a ‘ sociable ’ , a bike from the 1890's where the riders sit side-by-side sharing one set of handlebars . |
| 15 | Woodward waited for Duncan to absorb the awful truth before he continued . |
| 16 | It was Boyer who helped Coleridge to understand the subtle logic and ‘ fugitive causes ’ which gave the greatest poetry its power , and who taught the lesson , not immediately applied in Coleridge 's teenage work , that conventional metaphors and needless elaboration seldom made good verse : |
| 17 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 18 | R.S. used Hill and Knowlton to research the five counties and to help it produce the relocation documentation . |
| 19 | The main differences between Italian Fascism and Nazi Germany seem to be in the greater degree of autonomy of industry and the failure of Mussolini to unite the middle classes and the working classes even superficially . |
| 20 | A doctor at Wycombe General , Bucks , told Tom to return the next day and refused to lend him crutches . |
| 21 | Will he assure the House that the necessary funds to enable the TECs to undertake the additional responsibilities that he announced will be provided for those excellent bodies ? |
| 22 | An army was dispatched under the Count of Wissenland to intercept the advancing Orcs before they reached the capital . |
| 23 | Eastwood had lost the services of fly-half Scott Johnson and coach Geoff Johnson looked to Roebuck to play the important brains and link role instead of the custodian role at fullback . |
| 24 | Within the last ten days the leading Provisional figure , Martin McGuinness , took the opportunity through the medium of the BBC to advise the British Government that the IRA would not move ‘ unilaterally ’ to bring its campaign to an end or declare a temporary ceasefire . |
| 25 | With the opposition of Israel , Resolutions 44/2 of Oct. 6 and 44/48 ( several parts ) of Dec. 8 expressed concern at the means used by Israel to suppress the Palestinian intifada and at Israeli practices affecting human rights in the occupies territories . |
| 26 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 27 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 28 | Observers from the UN and the Organization of American States ( OAS ) began arriving in Nicaragua in August to oversee the electoral process as requested by Nicaragua . |
| 29 | Two advance parties , including Lt Col Neame , have already flown to Nepal to organise the 500 sherpas and scores of yaks who will carry nine tons of supplies to the south face base camp . |
| 30 | He urged states such as India , Afghanistan and Egypt to join the European neutrals and the states belonging to the Warsaw Pact and NATO in a summit conference to end international tension . |