Example sentences of "arrest the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government hoped to arrest the overall decline in domestic investment by " restructuring " industrial production away from the labour-intensive manufacture of goods such as toys and textiles towards more capital-intensive high technology products . |
| 2 | EVERTON must change the habit of a lifetime if they are to arrest the current slide this weekend with a victory at Nottingham Forest , writes Ken Rogers . |
| 3 | Two policemen , near the coach line , saw the waving flag and decided to try to arrest the two men on the steps . |
| 4 | The government of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda came under increasing pressure from Western governments to improve its human rights record as it took action to arrest the pro-democracy campaigner , Chakufwa Chihana , and to expel Mgr John Roche , Roman Catholic bishop-elect of Mzimba . |
| 5 | The secret was out and the magistrates issued a warrant to arrest the illegal mint . |
| 6 | it was n't a move calculated to arrest the awful trend but , most people agree , it was a step in the right direction . |
| 7 | However , the identity of the union remains closely tied to its agricultural as opposed to its ‘ allied ’ membership , and all the efforts of its organizers have not been able to arrest the gradual decline in membership that has accompanied the drift from the land . |
| 8 | Consequence : The odd success as the more sensible reforms of the 1970s take root , but nothing sufficient to arrest the gradual listing of the economy ; continued demoralisation of the workforce , but little threat to stability as élite maintains its cohesion against society ; however , minority factions in élite becoming more forceful in demanding strategy versus drift . |
| 9 | Its purpose is to trumpet the claims of the Eastern European nations to EC membership and to arrest the federalist bandwagon that would render such a transformation almost impossible . |
| 10 | That would be sufficient to arrest the old Lothario . |
| 11 | Is it the Government 's policy to arrest the accelerating decline in manufacturing — both in investment and employment — and , if so , when they will do it and how ? |
| 12 | It was Michel Bonfils , the general secretary of the French Students Union who realised that in order to arrest the declining fortunes of the student game , it needed an inspiring international competition . |
| 13 | He had everything he needed to arrest the whole gang . |
| 14 | They were about to arrest the whole band until I told them I was to blame . ’ |
| 15 | In the end , the radical change of direction which the country took under Mrs Thatcher was the result not merely of the party donning a new suit of clothes but of the electorate despairing at the failure of thirty years of consensus politics to do anything to arrest the inexorable process of national decline . |
| 16 | Meanwhile our three cutters , Active , Safeguard and Swift also came out of hiding , the roar of their engines sounding a death knell for Eloise as they closed in to arrest the white yacht . |
| 17 | Establishment of a Ganges River Dolphin Project , similar to the highly successful Tiger Project which brought together various government agencies , international conservation organisations , and universities in a tightly directed campaign to save remaining tiger habitats and arrest the steady population decline of previous decades . |
| 18 | Some problems are fairly obvious : whether the disability is congenital , or the result of an accident or disease , the maximum amount of medical care available is required , in order to minimize the effects of the disability , or arrest the causative condition . |
| 19 | Students said police entered the campus around 3am and arrested the left-wing president of their representative council , Arthur Mutambara , and the general secretary , Enoch Chikweche . |
| 20 | The first move towards breaking the system was made on 17 February 1992 , when the magistrate Antonio Di Pietro arrested the socialist administrator Mario Chiesa for receiving bribes . |
| 21 | PC Hudson arrested the weeping girl straightaway , and took her to the Reading workhouse . |
| 22 | In November police in Madrid arrested the presumed head of GRAPO , Fernando Silva Sande , along with four other members , as they were allegedly preparing to kidnap a businessman . |
| 23 | As soon as he pronounced that the picture was the original painting by Wtewael , two police officers appeared and arrested the bewildered dealer , who claims that on Bock 's desk there was a book of the ‘ Hundred most wanted paintings ’ missing from German museums since World War II , its page opened to a reproduction of the Wtewael . |
| 24 | First , there was the simple fact of depopulation which diminished the general size of the market and the level of demand for indigenous manufactures , and no doubt thereby arrested the economic development of the whole region ; second , the depopulation affected agriculture , reducing some previous food exporting regions to starvation levels by the nineteenth century ; third , African production of cloth , metalware and other handicrafts was severely affected , not only by the loss of so many of its producers , but also by the fact that in return the slave traders penetrated the markets of the coast and hinterland with European cotton and manufactured goods ; and fourth , as the demand for slaves multiplied and as many African kings and merchants became even more dependent on European trade , war raids for the capture of potential slaves from neighbouring societies became even more frequent , injecting political instability , consuming precious economic resources , and creating a vicious spiral in which rival kingdoms became ever more dependent on the slave trade to acquire the fire arms necessary for capturing more slaves and in turn defending their slaves against slave-hunting raids from neighbouring kingdoms ( Rodney , 1972 , pp. 104–23 ; Davidson , 1974 , pp. 206 — 10 ; Inikoria , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | Libya has arrested the two men named by the Scottish Lord Advocate last November … and begun a judicial investigation of its own . |
| 26 | We 've arrested the guilty parties . ’ |
| 27 | A former member of the élite corps of the National Police was reportedly arrested the following day in connection with the murder . |
| 28 | The police suspected that it was an inside job and promptly arrested the dismissed worker , for no reason other than that she might have borne a grudge against her erstwhile employer . |
| 29 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 30 | Arrested the same day , Saw was found to have concealed large stocks of arms and ammunition in sealed containers in the lake near his house . |