Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 2 | ‘ So you will stay to attend the business fair at the Palazzo Parisio , which starts on the twenty-eighth . |
| 3 | Alternatively you might like to wait to see the proposal first as she is a most serious person who struck me as a likely author . |
| 4 | As applied to the crystallization of ice this mechanism is largely conjectural at present since little experimental work has been undertaken to estimate the pressures likely to be generated . |
| 5 | Before the start of talks , Federal Defence Minister Gen. Veljko Kadijevic agreed to implement the Oct. 18 ceasefire [ see p. 38513 ] , which included Croatian agreement to lift the blockade of federal barracks inside Croatia by Nov. 8 . |
| 6 | Needless to say , before the actual commissioning I got to know the Brooke Marine Yard and staff very well , and made many friends there . |
| 7 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | ‘ I said a suite ; there are two bedrooms , though if you want to spare the maids some work we can share . ’ |
| 9 | It is designed to accommodate the Exotox 60 , 70 or 75 and MiniGas multi-gas monitors which give protection against up to five gases ( oxygen , flammable and toxic gases ) and also monitor temperature and relative humidity . |
| 10 | Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained . |
| 11 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 12 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager ; moreover , Santa Cruz is said to be toying with the idea of doing some kind of COSE implementation to run over Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 13 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc declined to put a timeframe on delivery of its own COSE-compliant products — it wants to see the specifications first — but its IXI Ltd division expects to be first to market with a compliant desktop manager . |
| 14 | If anyone wants to borrow the core brief , they 're welcome to do so . |
| 15 | Thirty five thousand visitors are expected to attend the show this weekend to see a collection of classic American gas-guzzlers.Mike Dolan reports . |
| 16 | ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled . |
| 17 | Go with a crowd if you want to try the house special , which is a leg of lamb marinated in dark rum , braised in the oven and finished in the tandoor . |
| 18 | An officer will be expected to know the personalities concerned , for this permits evaluation of the appropriateness of his action as well as prediction of their future behaviour . |
| 19 | At about the same time he helped to found the Liverpool Medical Library and the Liverpool Blind Asylum . |
| 20 | A former Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister , Jiri Hajek , one of the architects of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ of 1968 , has been nominated , along with Vaclav Havel , the imprisoned playwright who helped to found the Charter 77 human rights group . |
| 21 | However , the disabled person has to secure the job first . |
| 22 | She banged her empty glass down on the desk , as though she had expected to find the surface several centimetres lower than it actually was . |
| 23 | Cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase is considered to catalyse the rate limiting reaction in the biosynthesis of bile acids , converting cholesterol into 7α-hydroxycholesterol . |
| 24 | Branagh 's version retains a Chorus — Derek Jacobi in voice-over or in twentieth-century mufti ( greatcoat and scarf ) , sometimes even sharing the frame with the action — though arguably the camera can be trusted to set the scene unaided . |
| 25 | Petrol bombs were used to try to set the place alight . |
| 26 | Ah well you see that 's what I 'm talking about as well , Napier are saying if your guys want to set the exams fine but we did in fact in the last exam paper find a fundamental flaw . |
| 27 | As one of the UK 's largest botanical libraries , it is also open as a reference library to any member of the public who needs to consult the specialist botanical literature which it holds . |
| 28 | The question is how given Christian Aid 's limited staff resources , we propose to identify the university first , as a base from which consultation can take place on course content and methodology . |
| 29 | Following this line of reasoning , we have recently defined a series of DNase I hypersensitive sites flanking the class II MHC locus and have shown that these sites are specific to cell lines which are developmentally programmed to express the class II MHC gene products ( i.e. B cell lineage cell lines ) , or to those actually expressing class II MHC at the cell surface ( 26 ) . |
| 30 | It 's all on the night is n't it you know , it 's all about the boys and who wants to win the match most tonight . |