Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the commitment expressed by the US President , George Bush , to withdraw all US invasion forces from Panama by the end of February 1990 [ see p. 37177 ] , García agreed to attend the international drugs summit in Cartagena ( Colombia ) on Feb. 15 [ for which see pp. 37243-44 ] . |
| 2 | He also sought to promote the local iron industry , and to continue the development of Whitehaven as a planned town along lines laid down by his father in the 1680s . |
| 3 | As then , he dealt with the motion as a three-part whole rather than as separate clauses and refused to incorporate an amendment ( carried 2:1 ) which sought to modify the proposed Committee revision in respect of the Captains , which many members considered was a continuation of the sort of privileges previously enjoyed by bondholders . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , and irrespective of the debate on the degree of influence of annual weather variations on long-term ozone trends , the fact that 101 areas in the country failed to meet the 0.12 ppm ozone standard in 1988 is extremely worrying . |
| 5 | Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune . |
| 6 | He helped to reorganize the local golf course so that students could play legally and cheaply . |
| 7 | In the UK , price increases for food , clothing and footwear , tobacco , alcohol and petrol helped to drive the retail price index 0.7 per cent higher in October , taking the retail price index ( January 1987=100 ) to 116.6 . |
| 8 | For example , some Health Authorities tried to obstruct the competitive tendering process for ancillary services . |
| 9 | Biotechnologists at the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have been testing rice modified to resist the red stripe virus , which can destroy entire harvests in Southeast Asia . |
| 10 | This image of Celtic was one that dated back to the '20s when the club tried to sell the free scoring centre-forward Jimmy McGrory when he was en route to a catholic pilgrimage at Lourdes . |
| 11 | The decline in the position of history in many of our schools is signified by the fact that it failed not only to be ranked as a core subject in the National Curriculum reinstated under the Education Reform Act of 1988 but was struggling hard for its survival on the list of foundation subjects as schools in the early 1990s tried to pour the National Curriculum quart into the school timetable pint pot . |
| 12 | The argument for ‘ national efficiency ’ helped to win the Liberal Party leadership to the case for social reform after they gained office in 1905 . |
| 13 | While there he tried to form the Labour Church Settlement , a community to function as a centre of intellectual and cultural life for the surviving Labour churches . |
| 14 | As teams of temps struggled to cope with the mounting chaos , Jackson tried to keep the Equal Opportunities flame burning . |
| 15 | Although the V&A 's sculpture department tried to keep the sixteenth-century bronze statue in the country , it seems that it was not felt to be of sufficient merit to meet any of the Waverley criteria governing rules on the export of works of art from Britain . |
| 16 | But his mother went to the police and tried to have the old custody order enforced . |
| 17 | They stood watching him as he tried to manoeuvre the five foot cabinet through on to the landing with them . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's — ’ She tried to place the faint West Country burr in his voice . |
| 19 | Although on every side people tried to raise the old Watergate question , ‘ What did the President know and when did he know it ? ’ , it seemed curiously flabby and unsatisfactory ; as Elizabeth Drew wrote in the New Yorker , ‘ When one talks about what Reagan ‘ knew ’ , one could be dealing in metaphysics . ’ |
| 20 | At the same time , our cleaning lady , an ex-bus conductress and union member , tried to join the same Streatham branch and was turned away because they were ‘ too busy ’ . |
| 21 | A close friend and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King , Abernathy helped to organize the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott which marked the beginning of the modern US civil rights movement : he was with King when the latter was assassinated in Memphis on April 4 , 1968 , and succeeded him as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) , the organization which the two men had founded in 1957 . |
| 22 | He tried to telephone the British artillery unit nearest the balloons , but the operator could n't get through . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 24 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 25 | The Party 's leaders were held up to the public 's scrutiny ; it was not the Party 's fault that some , those with speech defects in particular , failed to receive the customary standing ovation after their speeches from an enthusiastic conference , or that others , standing some way up the ladder of promotion , were pinched for drunken driving . |
| 26 | But Europeans increasingly during the I 1980s came to see the global electronics market as offering key advantages to the United States and Japan . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is an oddity that he seemed to see the criminal justice system as being the only aspect of the environment that influences individual decisions about whether it is worthwhile to commit crime or not . |
| 28 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 29 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 30 | We have found no documentary evidence at all to explain how such a large body of men came to leave the 5 Corps area , eventually to turn up in northern Italy . |