Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 2 | In the case of the simple penal code , the essential reason it is in the interest of a firm in this case to carry out the threat of punishment is that it believes that if it does not it itself will be punished . |
| 3 | I packed up three months ' baggage and bought yet another case to bring home the excesses of my shopaholism , wrote down the addresses of many new friends and drove to New York to meet a really old one . |
| 4 | The Regional Health Authority voted this afternoon to shut down the specialist chest and orthopaedic hospital . |
| 5 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 6 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 7 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 8 | The Treasury Select Committee will have fun discussing the precise significance of that measure , which is another attempt to talk up the economy and persuade consumers that it is all right to spend now . |
| 9 | This may be by consulting a specialist in the field or by doing some research to fill in the gaps in knowledge , as part of the project . |
| 10 | This may be by consulting a specialist in the field or by doing some research to fill in the gaps in knowledge , as part of the project . |
| 11 | Now , what we 'll need to get you doing , is some exercise to strengthen up the muscle across there . |
| 12 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 13 | It might be helpful at this point to consider how the opera as a whole works along comparable lines . |
| 14 | For example , Snider examined the enforcement of the Canadian Combine Investigation Act , 1889 , which makes it ‘ illegal to conspire or arrange with another person to limit unduly the facilities to manufacture any article , or to prevent or lessen unduly competition in the manufacture or production of any article and to thereby increase the price ’ ( 1978 : 147 ) . |
| 15 | But they now had a great advantage because they knew that their viral DNA was in the gene and so they could use this knowledge to fish out the gene that clearly plays some role in limb development . |
| 16 | REVIEWING Government policy and achievements in several areas of concern , the Friends of the Earth report finds ‘ some good intentions but relatively few actions to back up the words ’ . |
| 17 | what are the best exercises then or the best form of exercise to build up some ticker to build up the heart ? |
| 18 | Last night , a ministry official delivered a notice to the monastery , stating that officers intended to return this morning to carry out the order to slaughter the birds . |
| 19 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's no secret we are interested , ’ said Keegan , who flew to Belgium earlier this month to check out the £500,000-rated Ghent goalscorer . |
| 21 | G. M. Henry , in his classic A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon , puts forward this argument to explain why the birds that have developed as separate species and subspecies are found in the southern , mountainous half of the island . |
| 22 | It is not the intention in this paper to examine critically the rhetoric and ideology which may be behind the government 's inclusion of these principles within its legislation . |
| 23 | I usually park in Newgate Street , but when feeling unwell have occasionally parked on this road to cut down the walking . |
| 24 | Get another Brownie to write down the dots and dashes you signal to see if you have done it right . |
| 25 | But Melody ( 6-4 fav ) , feeling the strain of a gruelling season , failed by three and a half lengths to pull back the Isle of Man-owned winner . |
| 26 | And yet he went to some lengths to press home the validity of this attitude . |
| 27 | The first stage in calculating the pull-out torque is to establish a suitable model for the phase circuits and then use this model to find how the phase current varies with stepping rate . |
| 28 | The injunction began a saga that was to run for two months , as Virgin scrabbled to find another bank to take over the role played in the lease agreement by Chemical . |
| 29 | This is not an aim — this is a method ; the aim underpinning this response is to get another agency to take on the family . |
| 30 | Layering is another way to sort out the confusion . |