Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various plans failed to restore the confidence of either foreign banks or foreign investors . |
| 2 | With its three times zoom range the FZ–3000 covers the vast majority of everyday shooting conditions . |
| 3 | The Georgian mill owner 's house has been restored and houses displays exploring the history of the mill . |
| 4 | The size and range of the relief activities undertaken shows the strength of public support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 5 | In the strategies formulated to popularise the V&A , design has played an important role . |
| 6 | However , it was Mr Deerey who resigned after his calls failed to gain the support of the local YC executive , which included Chalmers 's brother and brother-in-law . |
| 7 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 8 | In this and other chapters we have discussed the various LEA-based and school-based strategies devised to secure the implementation of PNP . |
| 9 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 10 | She stood transfixed , with one hand out , but her fingers failed to obey the command to take the proffered bag . |
| 11 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 12 | The Roman authorities intend to refurbish the Casina delle Civette at Villa Torlonia , which already has splendid Art Nouveau furnishings and stained glass , to house twentieth-century decorative arts , whilst the Ministry has decided to allocate the Villino Boncompagni , near Via Veneto , to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna for a similar museum . |
| 13 | It is the consonant sounds which make speech intelligible ; therefore it is not surprising that people who lose the high frequencies tend to hear the voice but not to be able to distinguish words . |
| 14 | This could , of course , occur even if the Member States failed to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | Although these classifications and their spatial patterns tend to confirm the generally accepted view of rural population already discussed here and in Chapter 4 , Webber and Craig admit that multivariate classification is a subject on which virtually no two practitioners agree either in the UK or in other countries like France ( Chapius , 1973 ) and therefore argue that the crucial test should not be the methodology but whether the classifications are useful . |
| 16 | FOR a nation which fire-bombed Hamburg and destroyed Dresden to complain when the Germans planned to celebrate the anniversary of the V2 rocket is ridiculous . |
| 17 | Gill and Jackson had the ideal opportunity to demonstrate how the phenomenon of identity confusion could be understood through the process of racial discrimination in society , a path whereby children of minority groups tend to internalise the values of the dominant society , and internalise derogatory values about themselves . |
| 18 | Americans and Russians sought to outflank the great European shipping routes . |
| 19 | However , if farms remain profitable , yield-increasing technologies tend to mask the effect of soil degradation and erosion and make up for declines in fertility that would have occurred if land had been cultivated with a constant level of technology . |
| 20 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 21 | Should Wycombe fail in their promotion campaign , there will doubtless be a number of League clubs clamouring to employ the Wanderers manager , who last summer turned down the opportunity of going to Bristol Rovers . |
| 22 | In some sense this mental exploration can be seen as coextensive with the work of the other " social explorers " who , continuing a tradition from Victorian times sought to investigate the " dark continent " or " jungles " of working-class life . |
| 23 | Animals that are too aggressive , too daring , or too timid for their own good in terms of reproduction are gradually eliminated so that in a stable environment the median values tend to become the population norms . |
| 24 | At the 12th annual summit meeting of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference ( SADCC ) in Windhoek , Namibia , on Aug. 17 , leaders of the 10 member states agreed to transform the organization into the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) . |
| 25 | It is certainly a long way from the crowds cheering at John F. Kennedy 's ‘ Ich bin ein Berliner ’ speech in front of the Berlin Wall in 1962 to the communiqué issued after Honecker 's visit to West Germany in 1987 : ‘ both states agreed to respect the sovereignty and independence of each other in both domestic and foreign matters ’ . |
| 26 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 27 | One way contemporaries sought to curtail the influence of the Court was by securing free and frequent Parliamentary elections , and therefore electoral reform became a key element to the Country platform . |
| 28 | After overnight negotiations the authorities agreed to refuel the plane and let it fly to Pakistan on condition that the remaining 38 passengers and crew would be released on arrival . |
| 29 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 30 | With hindsight it is clear that left-wing opponents planned to disrupt the meeting , for over 1,000 anti-fascists were involved in a counter-demonstration and in the systematic attempts to wreck the occasion . |