Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not always the child who has been building that does the packing away . |
| 2 | And he 's , he 's using that to make the frame and then the doors for our old wardrobes he 'll use for the front of it , you know . |
| 3 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 4 | It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities . |
| 5 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 6 | ( By 1983 , fashion had become so disjointed anyway — it became possible to achieve the look and sound of any youth cult movement since the forties and still remain firmly in vogue ) . |
| 7 | With the implementation of the present Call-slip analysis exercise it became possible to review the situation after an interval of almost ten years , and in the tables which follow , those findings of the present Survey which relate to foreign-language material are set alongside the broadly comparable findings of the earlier periods . |
| 8 | It became possible to instil the drill , discipline , and skills required to make the army an effective fighting force . |
| 9 | But having made the distinction clear between the two modes it is necessary now to acknowledge that to see the relationship always in terms of contrary orientations may be an oversimplification . |
| 10 | AS the biggest Whitehall shake-up in two decades gets under way , there is firm evidence that the civil service expected Labour to win the election . |
| 11 | I think Mao was quite keyed up on the whole situation , I think he realized that to win the war they had to erm adjust the mass support very carefully , and I think that 's basically what this I think that 's why two months later they er they er gave up this document cos he was worried then they 'd lose the middle peasants ' support . |
| 12 | In Setting up a closed.loop Stepping motor control the choice of appropriate points for deceleration initiation can be very difficult , because the load torque characteristics , which are usually a function of speed , may be ill-defined or may be expected to vary over the life expectancy of the system . |
| 13 | But Microsoft insists that list prices will remain high to emphasize the value of their products . |
| 14 | Being clear about the social purpose of the organisation ( in management jargon , its mission and core values ) , and using this to clarify the nature of its relationships with users and provide an ethical system of values to guide behaviour , is a key task for managers and politicians jointly . |
| 15 | An Iranian-brokered ceasefire , due to start on Feb. 27 to enable Vellayati to visit the enclave , failed to hold , however , and on Feb. 28 he flew direct to Yerevan , the Armenian capital . |
| 16 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 17 | He thinks this demonstrates the vitality of Islam and of the unwillingness of the thinking Muslim to accept the harsh , intolerant version of it offered by the fundamentalists . |
| 18 | Is the Minister aware that the best return for that good work is not being achieved in that shortcomings in the law allow the higher echelons of terrorist organisations — their command and control structures — to remain free to walk the streets with impunity , despite the fact that the RUC has provided high-grade intelligence about those people ? |
| 19 | It is not considered friendly to grab the nose of the person speaking with you . |
| 20 | Multiprocessing is a misnomer , because the software ties together only two RS/6000s , enabling each to back the other up . |
| 21 | He bent low to study the packet . |
| 22 | I 'm not sure if it has frilly paid the Ministry for the land . |
| 23 | Although the LASMO bid covers eight blocks the reality is that the company — in the face of rival applications — hopes to secure maybe two or three of them . |
| 24 | She had taken after her father , Astrid said , that dogginess — always going after a stick , leaping high to please the thrower , waggingly racing back with it and repeating the action as long as it pleased . |
| 25 | For example , what precipitated the movement of labour-intensive manufacturing from North to South over the past three decades , and how exactly has this affected the employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers ? |
| 26 | Not only has this reduced the operating costs , but it has also meant that for the first time in its history the Central Wales Line has been able to support a Sunday service ; indeed in July 1987 , one Sunday saw fourteen train movements , what with BR 's own service train , the various Recreation Ramblers , sponsored by the Sports Council , and two excursion rail tours . |
| 27 | Pupils giving estimates at the end of this range might well be considered sensible to give the height of a door as 5 feet and 10 feet respectively . |
| 28 | They say this reduces the likelihood of diseases like AIDS or hepatitis : |
| 29 | Experts say this shows the benefit of regular inspections . |
| 30 | ‘ I expect some take the veil simply to hide a flat chest ! ’ |