Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1943 he was seconded from the army to advise on how to reorganize the munitions factories . |
| 2 | Already next season 's Ulster Senior Challenge Cup final has been brought forward a week to April 23 in order to accommodate the Lions party who will take in the game as part of their celebrations . |
| 3 | While he is generally careful to uphold the Politeness Principle , he wishes above all to preserve his own negative face . |
| 4 | If they decide to kill the customs officer we 'll take our time over it , we 'll make it very difficult and very unglamorous . |
| 5 | Regulators like these restrictions because it makes it easier to monitor the risks banks are taking ; bankers object to the extra cost . |
| 6 | Environmentalists now say that a completely new transport policy is essential to curb the effects vehicles are having on our planet . |
| 7 | I was rather late back , when I got back I heard a knock on my bedroom door and she said it 's Miss and er I said , oh come in , I undid the door and she came in and er and so she said to me er , I just had a telephone message from Peel er to say that you have been subpoenaed to go the Police Court next Thursday and I said what a day out of my holiday and she said , well I 'm sorry but you 'll have to go . |
| 8 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 9 | An action was then brought to enforce the costs agreement . |
| 10 | The existence of a National Health Service paid for out of taxpayers ' money in the UK is also thought to affect the claims level . |
| 11 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 12 | With many smiles , they were enticed to sample the sardinhas grelhadas from this smoking barbecue , to choose this table , to patronise this establishment which , it was winsomely claimed , provided the choicest view of the sparkling blue mouth of the Arade river . |
| 13 | He conquered the still-surviving British kingdom of Elmet ( HB ch. 63 ) and extended over the men of Lindsey ( among whom the missionary Paulinus baptized at Lincoln and Littleborough ( HE II , 16 ) ) , a lordship which must soon have come to embrace the Mercians north of the Trent and , no doubt by slower degrees , those south of it . |
| 14 | Most of the family were present when Anne asked her mother if she could have her dress altered , and after she had gone to see the Misses Dolan Tony said , ‘ I think it 's a shame Anne ca n't go out and enjoy herself . |
| 15 | Erm , is she going to see the doctors Sally ? |
| 16 | When Carco called to see the paintings Zborowski ran to buy a candle , stuck it into the neck of a bottle , then showed Carco into a narrow , unfurnished room where a stack of Modigliani 's canvases stood in the corner . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know the bloody title but I wish to see the ones Hopkins studied ! ’ |
| 18 | Compare , for example : ( 16a ) I was glad to see the police car come around the corner . |
| 19 | It was touching to see the preparations Constance — and her new maid — had gone to . |
| 20 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
| 21 | We have tried to list the connections existing across contributions in this discourse fragment to emphasise the ways speakers make what they 're talking about fit into a framework which represents what we ( as discourse participants ) are talking about in conversational discourse . |
| 22 | In reality it is impossible to estimate the probabilities P ( wi|w1 , … , wi-1 ) for all but very small values of i , and only for quite a small vocabulary . |
| 23 | We hate : The Blues Brothers ; people who like The Blues Brothers ; people who think it 's cool to like The Blues Brothers ; people to have seen The Blues Brothers 20 times ; people who know every word of The Blues Brothers ; people who quote The Blues Brothers ; fake cover versions of Seventies soul classics . |
| 24 | The houses claimed , however , that they had informed the Ministry of Finance of the payments in 1990 , and that the ministry had chosen not make the information public , preferring to instruct the securities houses to discipline those personnel responsible . |
| 25 | MINISTERS at the Department of the Environment have decided , after all , to implement the Reservoirs Act that parliament passed in 1975 . |
| 26 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 27 | Black social workers claimed last week that some SSDs were failing to implement the complaints procedures under the Children Act , or even to tell young people about them . |
| 28 | Asked by Anderson 's solicitor , Liam McNally , about the nature of the evidence to connect the police officer replied : ‘ It is circumstantial evidence and there is ongoing forensic examination of various items . |
| 29 | The Board has decided to change the rules to require duty solicitors to attend the police station where a suspect is to be questioned about an arrestable offence , when an identity parade is to be held , or the suspect complains of serious maltreatment by the police ; unless the solicitor can show exceptional circumstances justifying non-attendance . |
| 30 | The patient is asked to attend the Outpatients Department for the biopsy results which can take 7–10 days . |