Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Gorbachev called for superpower collaboration to " make [ the world ] more calm and reasonable " , Bush sought to assure the Soviet Union that " the West [ sought ] no advantage from the extraordinary changes under way in the East " . |
| 2 | This ground-level opposition meant that the mining companies never got to prospect the total area that they wanted to investigate , as they would have needed to get court injunctions to get on each farmer 's land . |
| 3 | Thirdly , he encouraged health improvements in an effort to raise the standards of hygiene and sought to contain the sweeping epidemics that intermittently tore through the population . |
| 4 | Mr Milosevic tried to persuade the Bosnian Serbs that , if they rejected the Vance-Owen plan , they would risk losing their territorial gains . |
| 5 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 6 | Carson pulled out his pad and tried to read the shaky notes that he 'd made on the Underground . |
| 7 | Bernice tried to recall the initial lessons that Cheryl had given her , soon after the TARDIS had landed on Belial . |
| 8 | Some dealers tried to convey the false impression that the two markets were in cahoots . |
| 9 | The abolition of Pomgol was greeted with so many protests from the affected areas of Russia that Kalinin had to issue two statements in which he tried to show the stricken population that it had not been abandoned by the government . |
| 10 | ‘ They tried to tell the Irish delegation that we did n't have the power to negotiate without Jim Molyneaux , but it did n't work . |
| 11 | The opinion evidence was not admissible as it sought to answer the very matter that was for the Special Commissioner 's decision , a question for which the witness was not qualified as an expert . |
| 12 | He was standing in the doorway , his lean frame clad in a loose-fitting tawny-coloured suit that seemed to emphasise the taut muscle that lay beneath it . |
| 13 | After the debate , a number of bishops hastened to assure the mass media that they would not knowingly employ gay clergy , although one or two spoke out against homophobia . |
| 14 | The later theory of instincts , which included the death instincts , as well as the sexual instincts which were retained from the first formulation , seemed to solve the theoretical difficulties that arose with the first theory of instincts . |
| 15 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 16 | Claudine suddenly seemed to notice the flustered looks that Jenna still had , although Alain was as cool as if his heated lovemaking had never happened . |
| 17 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 18 | Soviet leaders strove to convince the non-aligned states that Moscow had no objection to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact or the imposition of restraints on it so long as these measures applied equally to NATO . |
| 19 | They began to institute the actual changes that were necessary : |
| 20 | Soon it began to create the steady whine that she had come to associate with this strange instrument . |
| 21 | It was when the draft for a document on revelation was presented in November 1962 that the Council really began to experience the creative polarization that was to shape its whole history . |
| 22 | She looked down , smiling , then nudged her horse forward , following him , watching as he began to climb the steep path that cut into the overhang above , his horse straining to make the gradient . |
| 23 | They drove towards Lulling , Harrison still barking , and Agnes returned to break the dreadful news that Dorothy might never see the pair again . |
| 24 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 25 | It was five minutes before he stopped yelling , before he started to absorb the terrible pain that burnt through his flesh . |
| 26 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 27 | It was perhaps with this in mind that they decided to spread the only rewards that the Government was likely to confer on the architects for all their work across as wide a field as was possible . |
| 28 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 29 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 30 | Celsus reports that his father managed to persuade the consular consilium that it was still due . |