Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think keeps the petty thieves and the people who run a bawdy house away from my door ? ’ |
| 2 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 3 | Ca n't make Friday the ninth . |
| 4 | Families with sleep-destroying babies will enjoy Beeswax The Bad 's Noisy Night by Andrew and Paula Martyr ( Hamish Hamilton , £7.99 ) . |
| 5 | Erm so that 'll include September the fourth which is my last Sunday one , September the fourth . |
| 6 | Do you think Alan the Managing Director 's got a plan ? |
| 7 | The agreement will make Tuxedo the only on-line transaction processing technology on mainframe AIX . |
| 8 | The redirection will probably make Corollary the only company to produce a generic P5 multiprocessor board and chipset targeted at OEMs . |
| 9 | ‘ What will give companies the competitive edge is the quality of the way their people treat customers and that is linked to the way they are treated by managers . |
| 10 | The facts that will now be provided will give parents the missing information which will allow them to judge a school overall . |
| 11 | Do n't give Katherine the wrong idea , ’ Jacob intervened playfully . |
| 12 | We 'll probably do things the old-fashioned way . ’ |
| 13 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 14 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 15 | What 's more , we 'll give families the economic and technical support they need to irrigate land , grow crops , raise livestock and so provide a better future for their children . |
| 16 | Ward Sisters are actually managing resources at the moment , and part of their job is to actually give patients the best possible care within the resources that they actually have . |
| 17 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 18 | I could give people the last part , be careful in the second one . |
| 19 | What would you do re-offer the whole thing ? |
| 20 | They argue that this effluent fee would give motorists the proper incentive to ensure that exhaust emission control devices were efficiently maintained . |
| 21 | The combination of a national broadcaster and the world 's leading sports management agency must give Britain the best chance of success in a difficult contest . ’ |
| 22 | Dumping at sea : New powers governing dumping at sea will give Britain the widest controls in Europe . |
| 23 | He envied it , but he feared for it , too , for when the Rabbi departed to Eretz who would show Jacob the same affection ? |
| 24 | Grammar school rock may give Morrissey the perfect adoring audience for his ramblings but it does not help the wider case of rock or rock 's present stagnance . |
| 25 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 26 | Manchester City player-manager Peter Reid shares a joke with Mike Sheron yesterday , and is banking on his ace winger to hit the goals which will give City the last laugh on rivals United tomorrow . |
| 27 | Finally Anne said firmly , ‘ Why do n't you show Terry the good job you made of the cellar , Dad ? |
| 28 | Combined with the preparatory work now being undertaken , that will give councils the maximum time to prepare themselves before April 1993 . |
| 29 | The forms that are issued will give householders the first indication of the valuation band their property has been placed in and which will be used to calculate the level of council tax . |
| 30 | 1 What could be the first verse ? 2 What could be the last verse ? 3 What order do you think makes the best sense ? |