Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he could feel as if this were a frontier post , with everything out there just waiting and passing time until the opportunity came to grab the territory back . |
| 2 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 3 | The majority failed to understand the motivation of some of the characters . |
| 4 | At the right moment , the American dropped his flaps , the Yak banked to avoid the collision and ploughed straight down into the forest at three hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 5 | The Pakistanis seemed to find the answers to all these questions a vehement ‘ yes ’ . |
| 6 | In the truncated finale , for instance ( given a puckish rather than a trenchant slant by Kun ) , I was all too conscious of moments when the speed of articulation and lively nature of the acoustic conspired to widen the distance between soloist and woodwind , making for an uncomfortable out-of-phase sensation in their exchanges . |
| 7 | She was still crouched in the niche where the upright descended to join the girder . |
| 8 | When the pickets tried to prevent the importation of coal into the country , or its movement into major steelworks like Port Talbot and Ravenscraig , they once more found lines of constables in their way . |
| 9 | The Pentagon declined to state the number of weapons or troops affected by the plan , or to indicate the savings involved . |
| 10 | finally it 's back to the Manor Ground to pick the winners in our competition to pick the new Oxford manager … who better to make the draw than the new man himself |
| 11 | The Scotsman chose to acknowledge the event by printing a colour photograph of three women in a fashion show . |
| 12 | The Reverend offered to forgo the proceedings , and Boswell advised Johnson of the ‘ over-delicate scrupulosity of our host ’ . |
| 13 | There is no way of knowing that the writer intended to write the word books , but by a lexical substitution error wrote boots instead . |
| 14 | Like the army officers , the writer attempted to justify the recruitment practices of the Guards , and , as might be expected from a serious organ of right-wing opinion , more ingenuity was shown in the search for justificatory reasons than was by the lower-ranking quoted officers . |
| 15 | Even as the flames seemed to deepen the blackness around them , the light gave comfort and a sense of security . |
| 16 | The Board resolved to refuse the suggestion from the Ministry on behalf of the electors , and on the grounds that it was necessary to exercise tight control of expenditure in the public services ! |
| 17 | ‘ But after a long deliberation of all the circumstances , the Board agreed to sanction the contest on the conditions laid down . ’ |
| 18 | The Office of Fair Trading had considered an alternative approach : either ceilings ( a maximum permissible rate of interest ) or thresholds ( a rate beyond which the creditor had to bear the burden of proof in showing that the transaction was not oppressive , as in the old Moneylenders Act ) . |
| 19 | had found that plough carriers mounted on one of the bogies tended to throw the ploughs about , particularly if the pony wheels were worn or had flats . |
| 20 | Referring to appeals before the Transport Tribunal in 1984 and early 1985 , the LA had to consider the use of an operating centre as a place to keep authorized vehicles ‘ when not in use ’ , an expression unfortunately not found in the Act or regulations . |
| 21 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 22 | Oliver could hardly see where he was going , but the Dodger seemed to know the way , and helped Oliver up . |
| 23 | On Nov. 7 the parliament voted to appropriate the property of both the Soviet and the Lithuanian Communist Party ( CP ) without compensation ( the CP had been banned in Lithuania from Aug. 23 — see p. 38373 ) . |
| 24 | The conduct of the defenders and the effect of such conduct on the minds of the pursuers are significant factors from which it may be inferred that the defenders intended to repudiate the contract . |
| 25 | The Roman Research Trust says the publicity from the case helped to sell the manor for more than the reserve price . |
| 26 | On Nov. 21 , according to the Chinese Xinhua news agency , 67 per cent of the deputies voted to change the country 's name from the People 's Republic of Mongolia to the Republic of Mongolia . |
| 27 | However , it was not long before the courts began to use the provision in an attempt to curb insider trading . |
| 28 | In consequence , the courts came to limit the cases in which recovery of an ultra vires impost was allowed to cases where there had been an extraction colore officii . |
| 29 | This , following the House of Lords decision in Scottish Insurance v. Wilson & Clyde Coal Co was , in effect , done by capital reductions even though the shares were irredeemable and quoted at above par , for the Lords decided in that case and in Prudential Assurance v. Chatterley-Whitfield Collieries in the same year , that the courts had to confirm the reductions since the preference shareholders were being treated in strict accordance with their class rights . |
| 30 | Prior to 1932 the courts refused to allow the chain of contracts to be disturbed by tort actions . |