Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will endeavour to continue to represent the members and to project their needs and desires towards the company . |
| 2 | ‘ Use your … influence to arrange to have the Americans kept busy tonight , so that the ceremony may occur in peace . |
| 3 | The human spirit is trundled on to reassure them that they are still party to the heroic , which cynical people might think has departed the suburbs some time ago . |
| 4 | We are pleased that Northern Ireland party leaders agreed to meet to discuss the possibilities of progress . |
| 5 | Councillors agreed to try to promote the outstations for 12 months to see if the public make more use of them . |
| 6 | Practice with ‘ sticks ’ ( miniature kites on the end of a I metre ( 39in ) dowel ) forms a good start for understanding both the figures and the jargon which has developed to describe the shapes . |
| 7 | A branch of mathematics called network analysis has developed to provide the answers to the type of problem just cited , and network analysis algorithms are incorporated into comprehensive Geographical Information Systems as well as being available for stand-alone PCs . |
| 8 | With this religious overtone in Northern Ireland , the belief in majority dominance has justified ignoring the rights of the catholic — nationalist minority within the Ulster statelet . |
| 9 | Today 's attacks suggest another switch in tactics , back to the use of bombs , although as yet , nobody has claimed admitted sending the letters . |
| 10 | As appropriates involves assuming the rights of an owner the interview between the police officer in the case and the accused can be important . |
| 11 | For example , if another company in the group has provided guarantees in respect of dividends or redemption , or has undertaken to purchase the shares , the issue will constitute a liability of the group and should be reported as such . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Bean has undertaken to supply the horses , ’ Sam said . |
| 13 | B has to try to find the keys and get them out of the circle before being hit by A. If the Keeper hits B s/he wins . |
| 14 | We have to have recourse to what Stenning calls ‘ abnormal ’ contexts , where the analyst reads the text and then has to try to provide the characteristics of the context in which the text might have occurred . |
| 15 | Please remember that the programme has to try to meet the expectations of eight different Regions/Nations , the Overseas Groups , Sector interests eg. Fund-Raising , Communications , not to mention the visitors themselves . |
| 16 | We want to try to provide the alternatives : jobs for women and counselling for men . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We want to try to model the economies that can be realised from downsizing by studying particular cases . ’ |
| 18 | When the sugar has dissolved add the eggs , then the butter . |
| 19 | While Munro baggers have been marking the centenary of Sir Hugh 's tables , a ghost has come to trouble the celebrations — the hovering spectre of Foinavon . |
| 20 | ‘ The time has come to pay the strangers back in kind . |
| 21 | Law : Crucial battle for the high moral ground : As Parliament prepares to debate embryo research , Simon Lee says the time has come to approach the issues more responsibly |
| 22 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 23 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 24 | Again , there is no direct attribution ; the child reader has to come to know the conventions which are operating and the inferences which can be made . |
| 25 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 26 | BRITISH Gas executive Hilary Williams who won a sex discrimination case against her bosses has quit to run the Guides . |
| 27 | The RNLI 's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February 1991 . |
| 28 | ‘ Count de Sciorto has decided to take the wraps off at last , has he ? ’ |
| 29 | An inspection also found that the housing 's cold water tanks were of a type associated with Legionnaire 's Disease , so the council has decided to improve the tanks as well . |
| 30 | His chance to do this has come with the microwave report , but he has decided to put the interests of microwave manufacturers first . |