Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the conference lacked the hardware launches that dominated last year 's show , companies announced more software for their systems as supercomputers try to move into the mainstream . |
| 2 | Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses . |
| 3 | It need not be individual life , since in Bilbo 's second version others can take it up and follow it in their turn ; however in Frodo 's and Bilbo 's first version the image of the traveller pursuing the Road looks very like a symbol of the individual pursuing his moment of consciousness down the unknown road which is everyone 's future life , to an end which no one can predict . |
| 4 | The iris diaphragm that opens and shuts the pupil prevents us from being dazzled in bright light , while allowing us to see in dim light . |
| 5 | It is , however , suggested that where a new basis for constitutionality has come to enjoy universal acknowledgment or sufficiently widespread acquiescence , the judge 's obligation to uphold the law points in the direction of endorsing charge rather than blindly ignoring it . |
| 6 | The rear suspension deforms slightly on corners , allowing the rear wheels to steer up to 3° in the same direction as the front wheels . |
| 7 | Once completed the exercise enables comparison to be made between hospitals/specialties and thus the inequities in financial distribution to be identified . |
| 8 | Once the deal is completed the German holds a dollar bank deposit and the American holds a DM bank deposit . |
| 9 | As each target is completed the client encounters the next , until all targets are overcome . |
| 10 | The need to kill the animal restricts the value of this method . |
| 11 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 12 | Between the grantor of a leasehold and the tenant ( lessor and lessee ) there is a relation of tenure , and while the lease subsists the lessor has a reversion . |
| 13 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 14 | Now this may not be characteristic of modern Christianity — more the pity for it — but I do believe that it is a just reflection of New Testament Christianity , because in the earliest preaching the emphasis falls on his resurrection . |
| 15 | When a cancellation is received the reservation has to be cancelled throughout the system , in the diary and reservation chart and noted on documents in the filing system . |
| 16 | Thomson invites Ormanroyd to move forward and he drives it on and as he did so presume the referee has whistled for a free kick for the challenge by Gemmell , yes he has . |
| 17 | Lotus 1-2-3 release 3.4 , on the other hand , promises a more graphical outlook than its predecessors for the DOS user , whilst maintaining the power features that folk have come to expect . |
| 18 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 19 | To swim the channel costs £1,000 . |
| 20 | And what should she do when the engineering company which is building the road offers her younger brother his first chance of a job ? |
| 21 | Building the form takes two sheets of 18mm Sterling board and about half a day . |
| 22 | In ‘ edit ’ mode , rotating the control varies the selected effect , while pushing turns the effect on or off . |
| 23 | Having made sure that the rear cross-spars are correctly located , the bridle is clear and the stand-off sockets in their right places , push the spar ends well into the leading edge vinyls . |
| 24 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 25 | Touching the siphon stimulates 24 sensory cells . |
| 26 | Touching the Rock has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph and on BBC Radio 4 's Sunday and In Touch programmes , and is shortly to be the subject of Michael Burke 's 40 Minutes on BBC2 . |
| 27 | For example ‘ the ’ is signalled by two fingers placed together in the shape of a T , touching the ear indicates ‘ sounds like ’ , patting your hand on your head means ‘ name ’ , and it is often helpful to indicate the number of words by fingers . |
| 28 | Once again the politicians had to seek to reverse their Lordships ' decision and passed the Trade Disputes Act 1965 . |
| 29 | Back the man goes across the comes back |
| 30 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |