Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will want Parliament to see the report the Government has got . |
| 2 | In an attempt to curb the Guild the ILP reduced its age limit to 21 at the 1935 annual conference , thus removing many of the advocates of YCI affiliation from the Guild 's leadership . |
| 3 | In a last ditch attempt to win the war the Witch King launches a desperate winter offensive across the Shadowlands . |
| 4 | In an attempt to resolve the dispute the heads of the Jordanian , Palestinian and Israeli delegations held daily discussions in a State Department corridor , and the Palestinian side called unsuccessfully upon the USA to intervene . |
| 5 | Dissuaded by his friend and mentor Arthur Pearson from his original intention to call the movement the ‘ Imperial Scouts ’ , Baden-Powell performed a remarkable juggling act in the early editions of Scouting for Boys where he struck every nerve of the Edwardian anxiety — as fresh air philosophies , nature study and camp fire yarns jostled for space alongside a tub-thumping imperialism , anti-socialist harangues and shuddering prophecies of racial doom . |
| 6 | In an attempt to force the issue the respective republican parliaments on Nov. 17 had passed by large majorities similarly worded resolutions authorizing the split and declaring that they would " assume full responsibility for the continuity of state power " on the territory of their republics after Jan. 1 . |
| 7 | Every time I flick the rod in an attempt to mend the line the crust pulls off course and washes into the rubbish raft instead of curling round the edge of the tree trunk . |
| 8 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 9 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 10 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 11 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 12 | When Mrs Reynolds came to visit her husband , the staff nurse spent some time with them both explaining what they should expect immediately after the operation and she arranged for Mrs Reynolds to telephone the ward the following afternoon . |
| 13 | But I hope you will join me tonight in saluting ALL the correspondents and crews — from the BBC , ITN , BSkyB and other broadcasters here and abroad as well as those from newspapers and agencies like Visnews — join me in saluting those who risk their lives in appalling circumstances to tell the world the truth about what was Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | Although the supposed bringer of good luck is likely to be put on display , there are no plans to rename the pub The Old Nag 's Head . |
| 15 | The EAT , by a majority , allowed the Secretary of State 's appeal against an industrial tribunal 's decision to award the applicant the sum of £4,513.50 to be paid by the Secretary of State out of the redundancy fund under section 106 of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 . |
| 16 | Following the government 's failure to meet the deadline the CFD held a rally on Sept. 30 in Ouagadougou which ended in clashes with government supporters . |
| 17 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 18 | However , the gliders were usually fitted with a range of Kill weapons to give the android the extra edge . |
| 19 | I have never known anyone working in fundamental science who was not motivated by the desire to understand the way the world is . |
| 20 | It had nothing to say about the need to reform the way the country was governed and its manifesto was a ‘ job lot of ideas ’ with little sense of direction . |
| 21 | Words calling for sustained effort ( " search " , " meditate " , " examine " ) are used in the Bible to describe the way the scriptures must be read for maximum benefit . |
| 22 | He says : ‘ I feel I have established a precedent for arguing that if there is a genuine reason why one has n't got the cash to pay the tax the surcharge should be waived . |
| 23 | He says it would take him years to get the house the way he 'd like it . |
| 24 | if there is an obvious refusal to stop the vehicle the officer should show this in his statement . |
| 25 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 26 | She told her wrist computer to give the speeder the settings for the shuttle hangar , and as the automatic pilot cut in she turned , intending to climb up to what was left of the weapons deck . |
| 27 | When the House finally has a chance to debate the matter the Minister of State takes 40 minutes over his speech . |
| 28 | Without being offered a particle of evidence to support the accusation the young man sees in an instant that it is true , and abandons the whole project . |
| 29 | We may have been led to finding those four paragraphs because they are , in fact , the divisions which actually appear in the original and we merely sought additional evidence to support the way the author had divided up his discourse . |
| 30 | It came as a shock to see the fervour the group inspired in fans . |