Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four switching transistors in the bridge require separate base drives to amplify the two ( positive and negative ) phase control signals . |
| 2 | But 100-metres champion Linford Christie failed to make the 5.40 pm showdown and his dream of a sprint double died . |
| 3 | But I 'm not blaming the journalists , they 're under a lot of pressure ; the CBS or the BBC correspondent has to do the one report for the day . |
| 4 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 5 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
| 6 | Mr Guthrie , who was appointed by the Home Secretary in 1988 , recently accepted an invitation from the director , Lt Cdr Brian Miles to visit Headquarters and as the date coincided with the lottery , Mr Guthrie agreed to draw the 20 lucky numbers . |
| 7 | Donna tried to raise the .38 , anxious to get a shot at him , but he knocked her hand down and the gun discharged into the floor . |
| 8 | The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated . |
| 9 | Renault plans to target the 1.4 RT version at long-distance travellers , reckoning that its spacious interior , high equipment and trim levels and supple ride will enable the top-spec Clio to rival bigger cars for commuting . |
| 10 | Anxieties about the START treaty and Russia 's financial capacity to meet its provisions , and also those of a more radical accord concluded with the USA in June [ see pp. 38985-86 ] , were compounded after the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Boris Gomov acknowledged that the government had thus far found only part of the funds needed to implement the 30 per cent cut in nuclear arsenals required under START . |
| 11 | At the time , the force declined to name the five cases under investigation . |
| 12 | While all this was going on , the police had made several arrests , and the Department of Trade and Industry decided to interview the 16 witnesses all over again . |
| 13 | Marketers from all branches of the industry gathered to hear the 1992 Awards for Marketing , sponsored by Marketing Week , the Marketing Society and the ITV companies . |
| 14 | To complete the process actual performance must be compared budgeted performance , any variations understood and action taken to bring the two into line . |
| 15 | As AIDS continues to spread the 80 per cent mortality rate underlines the need for a greater understanding of its root cause . |
| 16 | The Greek-Cypriot administration continues to observe the 1960 Constitution , although provisions for the participation in government of Turkish-Cypriots are in abeyance . |
| 17 | To help redress this imbalance , this chapter seeks to evaluate the MDC's policy and practice and will complement Colenutt 's contribution on London in this volume . |
| 18 | Parties had to exceed the 5 per cent limit to win seats in the Czech National Council , but the threshold in Slovakia was only 3 per cent . |
| 19 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |
| 20 | The C helix happens to have the 3 10 conformation ( hydrogen-bonding to the third residue along , rather than the fourth , as in the α-helix ) , and the answer is that the glutamate generates a bulge ; moreover the local helix geometry switches from 3 10 to α . |
| 21 | IN THE final of this year 's Essex Senior Trophy , to be staged at Chelmsford City , Harwich & Parkeston hope to repeat the 1990 triumph over Tiptree , against Southend Manor . |
| 22 | Why did Doctor Jekyll want to separate the two sides of his character ? |
| 23 | In June the two countries agreed to extend the 1986 microchip deal by a further five years [ see p. 38292 ] , and finalized a pact granting greater foreign access to Japan 's construction industry . |
| 24 | Administrative secretaries were in early January appointed to run the two new parties , the National Republican Convention and the Social Democratic Party [ see p. 36968 ] . |
| 25 | With Graeme Hick looking far more relaxed in the one-day contests , England raced to beat the 254 target and booked themselves £25,000 in prize money . |
| 26 | The key point here is that it only attempts to link the islands into a loosely coupled way , and avoids the expensive development work needed to synchronise the two systems together exactly . |
| 27 | As Jenny wanted a conservatory and the fish needed a new home , a plan evolved to combine the two . |
| 28 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 29 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 30 | The money had been donated by Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin , but Haibara refused to name the 60 or so politicians to whom the money was later distributed to assist with their re-election campaigns . |