Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is designed to accommodate the Exotox 60 , 70 or 75 and MiniGas multi-gas monitors which give protection against up to five gases ( oxygen , flammable and toxic gases ) and also monitor temperature and relative humidity . |
| 2 | ‘ I said a suite ; there are two bedrooms , though if you want to spare the maids some work we can share . ’ |
| 3 | Our best plan was to kill the pirates one by one until the rest ran off or sailed away in the ship . |
| 4 | The packings must also be marked in such a way as to enable the person responsible for their movements to be identified ; that person must undertake to supply any Customs officer with any information that may be necessary to ensure the proper application of this simplified procedure . |
| 5 | In addition , the legislation will be strengthened by granting powers to enable the Director General of Fair Trading to initiate investigations where there is a suspicion that prohibitions are being breached . |
| 6 | We have already seen that failure satisfactorily to surmount the Oedipus complex results in pre-Oedipal fixations , notably at the anal and oral stages , and it may be here that we can find the primitive , rudimentary superego elements which can , and indeed must , remain when the mature superego does not develop . |
| 7 | Ryan prefers to wear the No 8 , but can play lock or flanker and his omission stresses England 's strength at the back of the scrum . |
| 8 | ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled . |
| 9 | It took the desire of the Americans to possess an ancient parish church to prompt the authorities concerned to realise its worth and the importance of not allowing such an historic treasure to decline to the state of dereliction and so be lost from our heritage . |
| 10 | If anyone wants to borrow the core brief , they 're welcome to do so . |
| 11 | If you swing the club at 100 mph , you can expect to hit the ball 200 yards . |
| 12 | T2 follows this trend but somehow fails to hit the mark due to poorly designed sequences that , while attractive , are tedious and unexciting . |
| 13 | In an effort to curb the man-eaters some very strange ruses have recently been attempted , including putting out dummy woodcutters wired up to give an electric shock . |
| 14 | They will not reveal any plans to demolish the house next door and erect a block of flats in its place . |
| 15 | The owner of ‘ The Hollybush ’ at Elstree proposed to infill an original coach arch in the pub 's facade and to demolish the timber framed side walls of the passageway behind in order to form a larger and open interior , even though it was this feature that distinguished the building as an historic inn . |
| 16 | The Iraqi government on April 7 agreed to UN demands to demolish the Al-Atheer nuclear weapons complex [ see p. 38838 ] . |
| 17 | She said when , when Mrs said why did you ask Emma she goes , cos we asked you to go the cinema all the time . |
| 18 | It is n't fair , and it ought to go The legislation governing taxation of capital gains is full of anomalies and should be repealed |
| 19 | I 'm wondering whether to go the A one way , or Longhurst way . |
| 20 | The transmembrane columns interact with each other to form a pocket where the agonist binds to induce the conformation responsible for activating the G protein , that is , the next component of the signalling pathway . |
| 21 | One such traveller , riding across the moor , met with this stranger and determined to drain the goblet dry . |
| 22 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | The left margin only : tap Enter ; then tap a cursor ( direction ) key to cancel the highlight Both margins : tap the Right key twice to select right indent : |
| 24 | South Hampstead High School in north London has some 200 Jews among its 510 pupils , but a steady inflow of Muslim and Hindu girls has prompted the headteacher , Mrs Averil Burgess , to cancel the Friday Jewish assembly from January . |
| 25 | Reports in late August said that Germany had increased pressure on its western allies to agree to a ban on short-range nuclear weapons and was locked in conflict with France over its refusal to cancel the Hades short-range nuclear missile programme . |
| 26 | Citrine , with his instinct for seeking stability and continuity , wanted to preserve the EDA intact on nationalisation , but the area chairmen felt the Boards should take over its work . |
| 27 | The method is applicable to gases and crystals , but vibrational relaxation in liquids tends to be too efficient to preserve the simplicity inherent in fluorescence from a single excited vibronic level . |
| 28 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 29 | Michael , 28 , of Wyville Grove , Hunton , won the judges over including the head chef of London 's Savoy Hotel to claim the £500 first prize along with a commemorative medal and certificate . |
| 30 | ‘ But this contravened a beef farmer 's right to claim the premium subject to a two month retention period and overall stocking limits . |