Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poet Marvell can thus be somehow separated from the political Marvell working to maintain the Interregnum 's government . |
| 2 | Cries of anguish were heard from the medical instructor , who was beginning to despair after seeing his practice resuscitation doll murdered by an overenthusiastic driver attempting to learn the principles of expired air resuscitation . |
| 3 | Political change helped to articulate the drive for reform . |
| 4 | Under such conditions the total correction required to counter the combination of the effects of wind and pressure meant subtracting 0.6m to 0.7m from the normal predicted tide level . |
| 5 | For disappointing though the Act was to prove to the great and unpropertied majority whose aspirations had been absorbed into the emotional dynamic needed to sustain the political will to secure its passage through Parliament , nevertheless it had shown that the Constitution could be changed constitutionally . |
| 6 | Dancing rebel Paul Mercurio adds a little Spanish sex to his stride , takes on the ballroom bosses and falls for frump turned dancehall diva Tara Morice , while the relentlessly zippy direction tries to match the hypermanic bump and hustle . |
| 7 | Although the single currency and the new powers for the European Parliament continue to grab the headlines , they are not the only issues to be hammered out at Maastricht next week . |
| 8 | Former England spinner Nick Cook clashed with Wasim Akram when the Pakistani all-rounder tried to leave the field during a last-wicket partnership in the tourists ' match against Northants . |
| 9 | In July the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity agreed to ask the national parliaments of Western Europe to lend their voices to the argument . |
| 10 | Private money tends to take the form of individual donations from friends and organisations associated with Highlander . |
| 11 | Another important feature is the professional judgement needed to discontinue the nurse/patient relationship when it is no longer relevant . |
| 12 | This retrospective study aimed to analyse the survival of patients with an adenocarcinoma in columnar lined oesophagus in relation to surgical treatment , staging , and the differentiation grade of the tumour . |
| 13 | The Company were already building ships at their yard which was sited opposite the Customs House and the dry dock helped to consolidate the repair side of the business . |
| 14 | The sole churchman to try to raise the Black issue in an effective way was Rev. Roy Magee , minister of Saintfield Presbyterian Church . |
| 15 | But around 1955 various smart operators in the American and Canadian blasting industry began to see the light . |
| 16 | Emotional equilibration tends to reduce the possibility of social interactions of aggression or avoidance that would lower the maintenance of an individual 's potential inclusive fitness . |
| 17 | And this … ’ he gestured with his head , his strong neck turning to encompass the huge estate — the palace , the lake , the orchards , the view of the distant mountains , ‘ it 's beautiful . |
| 18 | To receive protection under the 1976 Act , an agricultural employee has to achieve the legal status of ‘ qualifying worker ’ , which requires that the person has worked at least 91 out of the preceding 104 weeks whole-time in agriculture . |
| 19 | Interestingly , the dielectric loss appears to match the loss modulus more closely than the loss compliance when data are compared for the same system . |
| 20 | Extensive research failed to support the cycle of deprivation thesis but the stereotype lived on , and grew to more prominence with the dominance of the right wing in the Conservative party and thence in British society and politics : Keith Joseph was of course an early leading figure in this faction within the party . |
| 21 | The Israeli delegation refused to discuss the controversial issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 22 | European investment tended to follow the flag . |
| 23 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 24 | Fitting the blade is easy using the allen key supplied to clamp the blade between the blade holder and a clamping plate as often found on jigsaws . |
| 25 | I told the National Farmers Union that I did not believe that unilateral action would help , because if it is taken , the British housewife tends to buy the cheaper product from the rest of Europe and , therefore , we export animal welfare problems to the rest of Europe . |
| 26 | ‘ If an English clerk wants to see the Lord Bruce , then that can be arranged . ’ |
| 27 | HUNDREDS OF heavy metal fans were left stranded at Derby Station last Saturday when British Rail failed to run the usual special train to London after the massive Donington Monsters of Rock festival . |
| 28 | ‘ I have heard , and reliably heard , ’ he said , ‘ that the Daily Express intends to publish the twins story . ’ |
| 29 | Staff of the Scottish Daily Express tried to fill the gap when local publication of their paper was ended in 1974 . |
| 30 | Yesterday , even as he took over from Mr Krenz , he was speculating that he might soon lose his job if the East German parliament decided to replace the Council of State with an executive president . |