Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Some Americans wanted to open up the Spurling yard , and offered big money to the Borough Council , but that useless lot — that bunch of pen-pushers — they turned down the offer in favour of the Japanese . |
| 32 | Brazil 's Environment Secretary , Flavio Perri , has announced that the government intends to open up the Amazon to economic exploitation in a " sustainable , nondestructive way " and that cattle-raising , mining and agriculture would all be considered . |
| 33 | That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning . |
| 34 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 35 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 36 | In 1979 widespread disruptive action led the then Labour government to set up the May Inquiry , intended to be a major review of the entire prison system ( May , 1979 ) . |
| 37 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 38 | Her Majesty 's Government is also involved , for it is planning to set up the BritTrak Consortium which would reduce the rail network to a single , high profit track , ‘ running from the City to a decent little pub in Chobham ’ . |
| 39 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 40 | A UN General Assembly resolution on Oct. 15 called on the Cambodian leaders to co-operate and to exercise self-restraint , and welcomed the agreement to set up the SNC and to send an SNC representative to occupy Cambodia 's seat . |
| 41 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 42 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 43 | The first was over £1 million to set up the George Pitt-Rivers Chair of Archaeological Science in memory of the distinguished anthropologist , the late Captain George Pitt-Rivers . |
| 44 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 45 | The major combatants will be the Council of Europe and the European Economic Community , The EEC 's commissioner for industry , Etienne Davignon , has been trying to sort out the EEC 's scientific programmes . |
| 46 | The RSPB is pressing the Government for stricter import controls and to sort out the EC 's double standards , which allow the importation of many Asian , South American etc birds , but ban trapping of European birds . |
| 47 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 48 | He 's a great coach and organiser , and in my view there 's nobody better qualified to sort out the Everton mess . |
| 49 | One of the fighters later became a club steward , and dressed in a white coat with a red armband was officially hired to sort out the Rowdies . |
| 50 | There by the window was the portable gramophone all ready to blare out the Hörst Wessel the very next morning . |
| 51 | How would you like to lead out the Merseyside Select XI at Goodison Park a week tomorrow when they take on the pride of Manchester in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial game ? |
| 52 | At the London final , where they were interviewed by Gloria Hunniford , one contender wanted to paddle down the Amazon and another wanted to climb Kilimanjaro . |
| 53 | Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive . |
| 54 | X/Open is attempting to spice up the UK 's independent software vendor community with a ‘ software supplier of the year ’ award : the winner will be announced during ICL 's Software Open exhibition at Birmingham 's Metropole Hotel this week — finalists are Firefox Communications , IXI Ltd , Micro Focus , Software AG , Unify Corp and UniSoft Ltd . |
| 55 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 56 | Apparently the Stateside A&M label wanted their charges to cut a couple of cover versions , to gimmick up the US public , hoping for some obvious pop . |
| 57 | Apparently the Stateside A&M label wanted their charges to cut a couple of cover versions , to gimmick up the US public , hoping for some obvious pop . |
| 58 | You forgot to cover up the Anglia Television badge on the front end ! |
| 59 | If you decide to come here , be sure to look up the ACAUS chapter in your city and we will be glad to assist you to the extent we can . |
| 60 | Thorfinn had said , ‘ To get to Dunkeld … to get to anywhere that matters , he would still have to sail up the Tay or march north by the Forth crossing . |