Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 25 , leaders of a number of armed groups reached agreement in the Supreme Soviet to end the fighting . |
| 2 | The film-makers used a chink in the technological armour to record the candidates in their unguarded , uncensored private moments . |
| 3 | Smith went on Ireland 's recent tour of North America and the stand-off is now hoping to gain selection for Leinster in a push for a place in the Irish side to face the All Blacks next month . |
| 4 | A fire was burning in the small grate to take the chill off the autumn evening . |
| 5 | If you 're putting in new pipework , it might be easier to make all the holes before the cistern is taken up to the loft ; with a replacement cistern , it is important to make the holes in the correct position to take the existing pipes . |
| 6 | It took ten years of experiments in the Soviet Union to find the definitive evidence and so confirm Vesman 's resonance theory . |
| 7 | US intelligence sources , who revealed the deal at a time which coincided with a visit to the USA by Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir ( see p. 36599 ) , alleged that Libyan pilots were receiving training in the Soviet Union to fly the planes and that a Libyan Il-76 transport plane was being converted into a refuelling tanker . |
| 8 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |
| 9 | As someone who knew Gedge in both Middleton and Leeds , she was in the perfect position to notice the personality changes brought on by university life . |
| 10 | However , in the headlong rush to develop the newborn calculus of Leibniz and Newton , absurdities arising from the free use of intuitive geometrical arguments ( see problem 1 ) led to the so-called second great crisis and a call for analysis to be made more rigorous ; in other words based on arithmetic ( whose foundations were obviously ( ! ) secure ) . |
| 11 | Shafts of sunlight probe down into secret nooks and woodland hollows , just as they did in the wintry days to frustrate the birds in their efforts to conceal nests . |
| 12 | It , it 's really because as somebody gets older the risk gets very , very great , and it needs all the money that 's built up in the early years to sustain the risk , the charges for the risk later on , in the later years . |
| 13 | Both loans were dependent on major economic adjustments to reduce dependence on oil exports and to improve domestic competitiveness , and in the medium term to strengthen the current-account position consistent with real annual economic growth of 4.5-6 per cent , to reduce the external debt-service burden while strengthening the external reserve position , and to improve domestic investment . |
| 14 | More than 60 key business people and 150 representatives from the voluntary sector as well as community councils attended the presentations in the Regional Chambers to hear the findings of an independent study into implications for Edinburgh and the Lothians of the proposals for reform . |
| 15 | In ex parte Johnson , Lord Roskill quoted from the speech of Lord of Morton of Shuna in moving an amendment to delete the words ‘ of his ’ in the relevant clause to establish the context of the ministerial speech opposing the motion . |
| 16 | The lower limb , said Lovejoy , had been totally reorganised for upright walking and there were no compensatory modifications in the upper limb to suggest the creature was still partly arboreal . |
| 17 | LINFORD CHRISTIE , Britain 's athlete of the year , could only finish sixth in the international poll to find the world 's top track and field stars of 1992 , won by American hurdler Kevin Young . |
| 18 | The House will recall that we took a strong lead in the international effort to help the Kurds in Iraq . |
| 19 | These were fed into the system in the usual manner to create the required data base . |
| 20 | The court said : " If the right to be heard is a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . |
| 21 | ‘ If the right to be heard is to be a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . ’ |
| 22 | A refinement of the design of the Cambridge bridge over the original was the incorporation of wrought-iron latticework in the unglazed windows to prevent the lovelorn emulating their Latin counterparts by leaping to their deaths in the river . |
| 23 | THE GOVERNMENT is seeking a better drinks tax deal in the European Community to boost the Scotch whisky industry , the agriculture minister , David Curry , said yesterday . |
| 24 | She was following fellow nurse Justine Glynn who was waiting in a gap in the central reservation to cross the East Lancashire Road in Windle . |
| 25 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |
| 26 | A Victorian gentleman called A.J. Munby toured the Wigan coalfield talking to the pit brow " lasses " who worked at the pit top sorting coal from muck during an intense instance in the nineteenth-century struggle to regulate the sex of waged workers and of men and women . |
| 27 | If so , he clearly failed in this , as he did in the abortive negotiations to stop the Scottish army from moving south in support of a civilian government — and ultimately of a free Parliament . |
| 28 | Texas Instruments said the decision to sign the non-exclusive agreement was based on several factors : first , the technology is available now ; second , the ARM core operates at low voltages and offers ‘ the best MIPS per Watt in the industry ’ — approximately 200 MIPS per Watt , compared with the AT&T Co Hobbit at 37 MIPS per Watt ; third , it integrates easily into larger chip designs ; fourth , it provides good price-performance — to buy chips in volume from Advanced RISC would cost less than $30 per unit ; fourth , the chip is tiny — an ARM6L has a die size of 5.9mm square — and there is a strong need in the automotive industry to reduce the size and weight of components . |
| 29 | A note has been entered in the technical file to explain the end of part 6 has to be cut down as illustrated . |
| 30 | I think those pressures will still be there and that another solution will have to be found , albeit in the middle term to reduce the further demands , continuing demands for peripheral expansion of the city . |