Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were n't huddling because of the trying to ease the pain a bit ? |
| 2 | The twelve member states , by a separate protocol , would authorise the eleven to use the Community 's institutions for the purpose of implementing social policies pursuant to the Social Charter . |
| 3 | And — have I got the right to take the risk ? ’ |
| 4 | This means that a player ca n't pass back to himself , as it were , run into the '22 to take the pass and then clear his lines . |
| 5 | And , with the usual fervour from the Ibrox crowd behind them , I 'm looking to the Scots to rekindle the fire that burnt inside them during the summer and keep Roxburgh 's World Cup dream alive . |
| 6 | In 1548 , therefore , there was no reason for the Scots to fear the alienation of their queen . |
| 7 | Under ERM strong currency nations were forced to help the weak to re-establish the equilibrium of the system , although large-scale fluctuations could lead to an alteration of the ‘ central rate ’ . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter observed the truth of our Lord 's teaching that it is hard for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven , but the poor received the Gospel gladly . |
| 9 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 10 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 11 | Mr Saleh said : ‘ He was the youngest to have the treatment and still is . ’ |
| 12 | May I come to the aid of your correspondents who have been so severely maligned for daring to question the divine right of the English to claim the whole of these islands as their own ? |
| 13 | The air which he breathed was that of the famous treatise on the resting places of the old English saints , and of the days when , in Eadmer 's words , ‘ it was the custom of the English to prefer the patronage of the saints to every worldly aid ’ . |
| 14 | As she sat facing him , rigidly upright , he saw that her chair was one designed for the disabled with a button in the armrest to raise the seat when she wanted help in rising . |
| 15 | The Poles reluctantly asked the British to cancel the visit but the British insisted that the visit should go ahead as planned . |
| 16 | In the event , through the use of a US air-base on Ascension Island , the gift of antiradar weapons and Sidewinder missiles , and much intelligence information , the Americans materially helped the British to win the war . |
| 17 | It was therefore vital for the French to retake the north bank and this they achieved amidst vines heavily laden with fruit , reoccupying both Épernay and Reims by 13 September . |
| 18 | During a visit to Spain yesterday , the Prime Minister declared he will not allow the French to stop the deal being ratified at the EC 's Edinburgh summit later this month . |
| 19 | Fearing that a weak German left flank might enable the French to invade the Fatherland ( which Schlieffen had been prepared temporarily to tolerate ) , Moltke allocated eight of his nine new divisions to the left flank and added only one to the right — precisely the reverse of what Schlieffen had intended . |
| 20 | Edward probably realized , after the failure of the Rheims campaign , that he lacked the resources to mount the kind of campaign that would be necessary to compel the French to accept the Treaty of London . |
| 21 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 22 | You will need to gauge the distances covered so the best way is to take a car ride around your proposed route and use the odometer to measure the distance between familiar landmarks . |
| 23 | It did not take long for the Japanese to recognise the value of railways , and their natural imitativeness served them well in grasping the salient features of railway work . |
| 24 | There was no need for the accused to reach the restaurant door . |
| 25 | Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table . |
| 26 | As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression . |
| 27 | Thompson and West in a study of preferences for sheltered housing which included a sample of people of all ages who suffered from rheumatism and arthritis , found among these respondents ‘ a strong feeling of not wanting to impose on relatives ’ ( Thompson and West , 1984 , p. 318 ) , and the older respondents were even less willing than the younger to consider the option of being cared for by kin . |
| 28 | John 's legs stick out from under the bed towards the door The older man signals for the younger to cover the door . |
| 29 | IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) . |
| 30 | The railings were removed in the 1940s to assist the War Effort . |