Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 2 | The proposal , described in the report as " unprecedented " , was apparently intended to signal the Hinduja 's long-term confidence in the Indian economy . |
| 3 | The election could hardly have been better designed to promote the DUP . |
| 4 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 5 | Mr. Routley added : ‘ We believe that a charitable trust dedicated to conserving railways is better equipped to revive the WHR than a county council . |
| 6 | Perhaps , if we had only tried to wield the Spear , we would have been saved ; but none had the heart or the courage . |
| 7 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 8 | To this end we have just agreed to sell the Great Tower Street office to an overseas investor for £18.4 million and we shall remain in place as the head tenant . |
| 9 | An interesting aspect concerning my widely-flung net for Pathfinders was that Groups after a short while sent crews who had not volunteered to join the PFF and , in many cases , had made a nuisance of themselves . |
| 10 | Gorbachev was not invited to attend the Alma Ata meeting , but sent a letter setting out his views on the new developments . |
| 11 | So imagine the confused looks on the faces of viewers in America , where the PBS network has just started to show the Yorkshire Dale 's soap for the first time . |
| 12 | Whereas many of my Army friends can trace their ancestry back and produce forebears who were generals and colonels , some of them were surprised to learn of my Army background but shocked to learn that Tam somehow managed to join the Gordons as a drummer-boy and , 22 years later , reached the rank of Private soldier . |
| 13 | Spurred on by the promise of really good lighting , more than a million women have already paid to see the Chippendales . |
| 14 | The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself . |
| 15 | Despite the ‘ fine cast of characters … assembled for a morality play , even a tragedy , that once promised to rival the Watergate scandal ’ , only twelve people sat in the public seats . |
| 16 | It was further agreed to ask the UN Security Council to endorse this decision and to make the application of sanctions mandatory for all UN member states . |
| 17 | ICI had once hoped to price the Zeneca rights issue much higher , at 650–675p . |
| 18 | She had always wanted to see the Spice Islands . |
| 19 | The baskets of fruit behind the sink and hob were specially created to match the Villeroy & Boch china that the Mills have collected over the years . |
| 20 | Miss Foley reminded Brenda of Mona Rigby at school , who was always chosen to play the Madonna in the Christmas nativity play . |
| 21 | Intending to complete two weeks of intensive training whilst sailing to Southampton , he was distracted by the food and entertainment , but still managed to cross the Marathon finishing line on Westminster Bridge just over four hours after the starter 's gun had fired . |
| 22 | The designs have been specially chosen to complement the Concorde range of porcelain finger plates and door knobs . |
| 23 | With a Mozart concerto framed by Beethoven and Richard Strauss in the first , and the British premiere of American composer John Corigliano 's First Symphony scheduled to be partnered by four Ravel pieces in the second , the originally announced programmes for its two Festival Hall concerts had been deliberately chosen to illustrate the Chicago 's versatility . |
| 24 | Lotus has also decided to use the DEC systems as the development environment for Unix versions of Ami Pro . |
| 25 | It was also decided to involve the VHWs more directly in the health centre . |
| 26 | German officials have repeatedly threatened to leave the EC integration process unless they can have it their way . |
| 27 | A joint communiqué issued on Sept. 21 , welcoming the " final phase " of a search for a solution , noted the SNC 's agreement on the electoral system , and said that the SNC had also agreed to provide the UN Secretariat with a detailed report on military forces in order to implement the partial demobilization agreed in Pattaya [ see p. 38389 ] . |
| 28 | Ghorbanifar had also offered to provide the CIA with intelligence about Iran in return for being allowed to smuggle drugs . |
| 29 | ‘ Yet the Labour Party has repeatedly refused to repudiate the TUC motion rejecting inward investment as alien . |
| 30 | Peacock grabbed two penalties and Liam O'Brien , Franz Carr and Kevin Brock also scored to maintain the Magpies ' 100 per cent League record . |