Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the consortium agreed to support the overall programme funds would be given , on an agreed schedule , providing the strategies were retained . |
| 2 | Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors . |
| 3 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 4 | Ensure information systems development satisfies user needs : understand the tasks and processes involved to establish the true user requirements . |
| 5 | He stopped to inspect the latest Piaget watches and was tempted to buy one for Susan . |
| 6 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 7 | He also tried to prevent the new grammar schools from being reserved for the sons of the gentry . |
| 8 | His original aim was to study medicine but he narrowly failed to reach the required A-level grades . |
| 9 | The fellows never seemed to rib the other NAAFI girls very much : they joked with them , but not in the same way as they did with Lemon . |
| 10 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 11 | This explanation seemed to explain the general recognition results as measured by P(A) and had the additional advantage of predicting the differences in hits and false alarms . |
| 12 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 13 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 14 | Yanto shouted , as the gang began to slap the heavy deal planks into slings . |
| 15 | In 1986 when young activists decided to revive the six Gaza unions , the leaders were arrested and the unions temporarily closed down . |
| 16 | Partly as a result of this unexpected support , the band decided to release the Ukrainian Peel sessions on a 10-inch mini-LP , ‘ Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela ’ , no doubt most fans just asked for The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian album . |
| 17 | When Charles I 's Attorney-General sought to reclaim the long-lost Forest rights of his master , Crown , this group of returns was among the documents he triumphantly dug out of the records of the Exchequer . |
| 18 | A : What you want me to tell you is how I , victim of a class-ridden society , managed to escape the long side streets of the outer suburbs and reach the shores of academia . |
| 19 | After a row with Leyland , Whistler proceeded to cover the expensive leather hangings with a field of Prussian blue , and to paint caricatures of himself and his patron as peacocks . |
| 20 | He decided to be nice about the whole business , though he still could not see the point of it , and offered to put the little biscuity things into bowls . |
| 21 | The issue of stability or order at the political and social level , and its relation to the interest of national strength and security was also a significant factor in shaping the particular arguments abolitionists advanced to influence the economic interest groups and policy-makers . |
| 22 | Such an identification has important implications for the morticed stones and the timber portico already mentioned , suggesting that the central area preserved some level of architectural pretension ; this can only mean that early excavations failed to locate the contemporary timber buildings continuing Kenchester 's urban tradition into the fifth century . |
| 23 | Head teachers decided to obstruct school performance league tables ; a second teachers ' union voted to boycott the national curriculum tests ; and Lord Skidelsky , a Tory member of the council which sets the tests , resigned . |
| 24 | Delegates voted to oppose the mass opt-out plans and scrap controversial tests for seven and eleven-year-olds . |
| 25 | In chronological order , the first to appear was the fenced fin , on which horizontal fences around the foil aimed to prevent the offending air bubbles from working down the fin . |
| 26 | Even a firm Wall Street opening failed to smother the dearer money jitters . |
| 27 | He also had to work the two arm levers and extend the gun barrel on cue . |
| 28 | With his cuts bandaged tightly with handkerchiefs and two pairs of socks inside his running shoes he managed the morning dash around the garden , but realised as each step became stickier and more painful that there was no real hope of the gashes healing while he continued to fulfil the personal fitness goals in his Training Plan . |
| 29 | In Ipswich the home help service took over the care of these clients ; in Newham the development officer continued to manage the existing support workers until a new development officer took over ( the health authority agreed to fund a continuation of the project for a further three years ) . |
| 30 | then stated that , based on likely costs which he and had discussed , he wished to propose the following subscription rates from 1st January 1994 . |