Example sentences of "stop the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-way through the last act we 'll call a doctor , and the police if you like — they wo n't stop the show then and the delay wo n't harm Bunty , poor little cow . ’ |
| 2 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |
| 3 | After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back . |
| 4 | In most cases with either incipient or full spins , any movement forward , or even just relaxing the backward movement of the stick , would prevent or stop the spin immediately . |
| 5 | some drugs may stop the pill working — a doctor will advise . |
| 6 | Lifts also should have a micro sensitive pad at the bottom which means the lift will cut out and stop the moment it touches or lands on anything . |
| 7 | In this case , the referee will stop the bout as soon as you score , so your step-out will occur out of time . |
| 8 | No one believes the TPLF can take the capital , but their continuing success could persuade senior army officers that President Mengistu should be replaced by someone who can stop the war and negotiate . |
| 9 | The fact that the English and Irish Derby winners will never meet on the track does not stop the followers of the dynamic duo hammering home their cases . |
| 10 | That should stop the gossip . |
| 11 | Sir : Roy Hattersley says that he is against electoral reform as it would stop the Labour Party winning an overall majority . |
| 12 | Though both new directors are accountants with a wealth of experience , the appointments did not stop the shares falling 1¼p to a new low of 16½p . |
| 13 | But a Washington court could stop the launch today , if it agrees with anti-nuclear activists that the space probe 's plutonium generators are unsafe , writes Mark Champion . |
| 14 | This would stop the slaughter of the flock until there had been a full hearing in the High Court , according to Mr Richard North , an environmental health officer and technical adviser to the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association , which is backing the nuns . |
| 15 | Windy conditions did n't stop the fish feeding at Long Load drainage channel at Martock in Somerset , as Matthew Lee discovered when he tempted a 5 lb 4 oz bream from the venue . |
| 16 | They say that the police could stop the violence overnight if the Special Patrol Group was assigned to patrol the area , or if the Home Office made it sufficiently clear that this kind of activity must stop . |
| 17 | He formed the idea early in 1958 that a new front end with very unequal length wishbones would stop the roll centre moving about . |
| 18 | I shut my eyes real tight to try and stop the room going round . |
| 19 | we have written and published a new ‘ Good Wood Guide ’ to help stop the sale of rainforest hardwoods ; |
| 20 | In the last three months , which should have seen the culmination of Jubilee Year , a number of things happened which combined to slow and stop the momentum of Jubilee Year . |
| 21 | He admitted the federation could not stop the tournament . |
| 22 | Fortunately this did not stop the women from trying , and Basnett , senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick , describes in some detail the individual practitioners who set about the task . |
| 23 | ON January 13 the Turks will stop the flow of the mighty Euphrates river for a month to build up the water level in their new Ataturk dam ; fine , except that the Euphrates flows into Iraq which needs the water for irrigation and electricity . |
| 24 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 25 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 26 | None of this will stop the Franco-German alliance from remaining the Community 's dominant force . |
| 27 | The Discobolus , a life-size model of a discus-thrower , was a Hellenistic reworking of a classical sculpture in the first place , but that did not stop the BM from buying it ; fakes seem to get less fake with age . |
| 28 | Not that that would stop the terrorists from acting pretty well as they pleased . |
| 29 | The Bundestag is due to vote on June 20th , the Bundesrat the next day , although the upper house can not stop the lower one from leaving if it wants to . |
| 30 | It could also stop the central government from imposing half-baked measures in the guise of reform , which is largely what has been happening until now . |