Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [noun] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The combination of a national broadcaster and the world 's leading sports management agency must give Britain the best chance of success in a difficult contest . ’
2 There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is .
3 But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field .
4 New research could make coal the cheapest means of generating electricity — but the Government 's being accused of wasting the work .
5 Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news .
6 The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news .
7 I could give people the last part , be careful in the second one .
8 The decision to enter could be announced any time after completed negotiations and entry could take effect the next weekend , when markets are closed .
9 A decisive victory in a battle brought patriotic celebration , while at other times when things were going less well the failure to seek a peace could swing sentiment the other way .
10 But who would deliver King the full count ?
11 He envied it , but he feared for it , too , for when the Rabbi departed to Eretz who would show Jacob the same affection ?
12 They argue that this effluent fee would give motorists the proper incentive to ensure that exhaust emission control devices were efficiently maintained .
13 ‘ But who would dare approach the aloof Lady Eleanor ?
14 Brian had chosen Bath as a place to which he would take Celia the following weekend , partly because it was not too far away and partly because he remembered how happy they had been there before .
15 Later in the day I would tell Jack the exact distance that the first bunker was from the tee .
16 I shall tell Alan the bad news .
17 To hold otherwise would leave municipalities the helpless victims of all those who choose to publish untrue imputations which injure their reputations .
18 Well , at least , he thought , with a glimmer of the old wry humour , at least I shall witness things the legitimate Wolfprinces did not .
19 Construction of a sixth train , due to be completed in 1993 , will make Bontang the largest operating LNG facility in the world .
20 ‘ What will give companies the competitive edge is the quality of the way their people treat customers and that is linked to the way they are treated by managers .
21 Dumping at sea : New powers governing dumping at sea will give Britain the widest controls in Europe .
22 The facts that will now be provided will give parents the missing information which will allow them to judge a school overall .
23 The forms that are issued will give householders the first indication of the valuation band their property has been placed in and which will be used to calculate the level of council tax .
24 Manchester City player-manager Peter Reid shares a joke with Mike Sheron yesterday , and is banking on his ace winger to hit the goals which will give City the last laugh on rivals United tomorrow .
25 Combined with the preparatory work now being undertaken , that will give councils the maximum time to prepare themselves before April 1993 .
26 The Rest of the World will play Pakistan the following evening .
27 'If my writings are to last , ’ he said in 1835 , ' … they will please tor the single cause , ‘ That we have all of us one human heart ’ . ’
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