Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At least 88 per cent of sewage from coastal towns is discharged into the sea raw or after only basic screening to sift out solids . |
| 32 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |
| 33 | In those states whose governments have refused to have anything to do with the presidential liaison officers appointed by the president to set up offices in the nineteen state capitals , radio station staff have been likewise forbidden to make contact . |
| 34 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 35 | PONY-owners in Hampshire 's New Forest have launched a Neighbourhood Watch-style campaign in a bid to ward off horse-thieves . |
| 36 | NORTH Wales Police are stepping up patrols of flood areas in a bid to ward off looters . |
| 37 | POLICE are examining security videos in an attempt to track down arsonists who set fire to a football ground and laid booby traps just hours before Middlesbrough played there . |
| 38 | I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients . |
| 39 | John Hoerner , who became Burton 's chief executive 12 months ago , plans to upgrade the group 's 1,700 high street stores and 88 Debenhams branches in an attempt to win back customers . |
| 40 | In an analysis of the 1987 accounts of 470 banks the Commission had found that the three major banks had used such reserves to cover up losses , and that 46 out of 65 banks , which in fact made a loss in 1987 , had reported profits . |
| 41 | Both Watanjar and Patkin were leading Khalqis , a detail that was stressed by the government in an attempt to play down divisions within the party . |
| 42 | It was reported on Oct. 14 , 1989 , that the first attempt to bring together COMECON and EC officials in Moscow was effectively boycotted by the EC in an attempt to play down links between the two organizations in favour of developing bilateral relations . |
| 43 | Rover in bid to buy out jobs |
| 44 | It is good for horse to exercise up hills . |
| 45 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 46 | He caressed her body , peered at her face , used his axe to snick off bits of twig , loose bark , the bulging scars of old wounds . |
| 47 | The anode is a coil of platinum wire surrounding the cathode rod at the base of C. G is a hole in the seal to let out gases . |
| 48 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 49 | Demands for the NEC to draw up proposals for widening the party franchise were led by John Edmonds , general secretary of the GMB . |
| 50 | There were other diners at other tables , but he was alone , using his lunch break to fill in papers laid out on the cloth . |
| 51 | But police do not think the arson attack was a deliberate attempt to put out lights in the town so that the looting could take place . |
| 52 | NEW radio station Spire FM has recruited town crier Bob Scott to shout out details of programmes on the streets of Salisbury , Wilts . |
| 53 | Daily newspapers were far more aware of how society was changing and in 1929 London 's Daily Express invited its readers to send in postcards giving their own views on films . |
| 54 | Chris Stocks was set up by a friend when The Sun newspaper asked readers to send in photographs of Chris Evans lookalikes . |
| 55 | A detached head , who acts with detachment , coolly weighing matters up , allowing the mind to soak up ideas and to put them together in new ways , is not a primary-school image . |
| 56 | This enables water that has been used in the final rinse for previous dishes to be boosted on the next batch to clear off detergents . |
| 57 | Flights took place sporadically throughout the month in a desperate attempt to build up stockpiles of supplies before the winter . |
| 58 | These days , I only play rock to keep up friendships and meet the new generation . |
| 59 | And then too that the Bayonnais became overbearingly careful of their wealth and success , which they protected by placing chains across the river mouth to keep out marauders and by imposing stiff customs duties that enraged the local Basques . |
| 60 | Gangs of Azerbaijanis left the demonstration to hunt down Armenians , roaming the streets of Baku and breaking into homes . |