Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DUNES : To most people dunes are sandy hillocks to enjoy a stroll around but to golfers they are the enemy . |
| 2 | The main impediments to the free flow of people are those placed there to facilitate the free flow of motorised traffic , particularly road crossing barriers , signs embedded in the pavement and steps and ramps to carry the walker over or under the roadway. little seems to have been done in the way of formal schemes of assessment of pedestrian problems or of priorities for maintenance or design . |
| 3 | Rather than being thrown away , the contaminated milk was poured into tanks of clean milk to dilute the lead down to permissible levels . |
| 4 | We utterly condemn all the IRA 's cynical attempts to bomb the heart out of Belfast . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that , after 13 years in power , had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse , or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery . |
| 6 | Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that , after 13 years in power , had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse , or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery . |
| 7 | All Bailey had to do was tell the Mossad why you were here and they would have got Al-Makesh to pass the information on to Bernard . |
| 8 | This was the line of reasoning adopted in the Takeover Panel case : the government had apparently made a conscious decision to encourage the setting up of a self-regulatory body , and the Panel operated against the background of a network of statutory provisions relevant to its activities . |
| 9 | inability to find a way out of the financial tangle that they were in . |
| 10 | The big bay three quarterbred was being driven hard into Artemis 's lightly framed thoroughbred , and Artemis could feel the distress signals through her hands and seat as the horse shortened its stride in a desperate attempt to find a way out . |
| 11 | Accordingly , from the date of the notification of the offeror 's intention to launch a bid up until the publication of the result of the bid , the target company 's board of directors are prohibited from issuing new shares or convertible securities . |
| 12 | John picks a Crate B80XL combo to try the bass through . |
| 13 | But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy . |
| 14 | The windscreen wipers give us two neat fan shapes to view the world through . |
| 15 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |
| 16 | But then to have the wit and the cold blood to fit the stone back and cover the traces — that could be out of reach of most of us . |
| 17 | During a break in the action to wipe the lipstick off , I ask how he 's holding up and whether or not he 's still concerned about the image it will convey . |
| 18 | If it was a drug company , they rely pretty heavily on impressive animal test data to put the product over . |
| 19 | He came to life and made a half-hearted attempt to mop the milk up with his handkerchief . |
| 20 | It is not illegal to carry out development without permission but the planning authority ( and only they ) can , if they so wish , take action to put the position back physically to what it was before the development took place . |
| 21 | Could the gradual slowing down be an attempt to draw the movement out to more orthodox Mahlerian scale ? |
| 22 | ‘ We have had to beg , steal and borrow substantial funds to put the club back in the hands of the people of Peterborough , which is where it belongs , ’ commented Turner , who moves to the boardroom as chairman . |
| 23 | IAN WRIGHT and Alan Shearer tonight go in search of the goals to put the smile back on the face of English football … and keep their fledgling partnership together . |
| 24 | In an attempt to put the house back in order , Paul drew up a list of jobs to be done and employed a local architect to oversee the work . |
| 25 | A couple of dozen bales of fabric had been destroyed , partly by the fire and partly by the water that had been used by the fire brigade to put the fire out . |
| 26 | the tank this just hold compressed air and comes in sizes ranging from 7 litre to 15 litre they are made from steel or aluminium and have a valve to let the air out . |
| 27 | But he stopped short of setting up a ‘ shadow government ’ before the handover , a previously threatened step that would undermine the authority of the colonial government and denied China had any intention to seize the colony back before 1997 . |
| 28 | When it spots an insect on overhanging vegetation , it lines itself up and then shoots a jet of water from its mouth to knock the insect out of the air . |
| 29 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 30 | ‘ Dangle some cheese in your husband 's mouth to lure the mouse out . ’ |