Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapman realized that to survive a team now needed three instead of two full-time defenders to cover the gap in the centre of the field . |
| 2 | After this encounter Einstein gave up his specific attempts to undermine the uncertainty principle . |
| 3 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 4 | On the same day the government of Kirgizstan , a member of the CIS , was polishing plans to replace the rouble with the som , which became the country 's official currency on May 17th . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no specific plans to meet the ambassador , but both he and I have met him recently . |
| 6 | This was an initiative sponsored by the SDLP at first intended to bring together politicians from both catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist groups to discuss the future of the island as a whole . |
| 7 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 8 | Its future , however , is uncertain , extensive plans to integrate the building into part of a much bigger new-build scheme having been put on hold . |
| 9 | After speaking in Strasbourg as president of the Council of Europe , Mr Hurd addressed the council in a national capacity , and said : ‘ I remain concerned at the continuing failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate the incitement to murder of the British subject , Mr Salman Rushdie , and the bounty offered in that respect by all Iranian organisations . |
| 10 | Much of the night passed in vain attempts to open the tomb , but an appeal to the saint herself worked wonders ( a common feature of such tales ) , and the party made for its ships with the precious plunder . |
| 11 | Dr Neil made vain attempts to stifle the bleeding , his own face now as grey as the bedlinen had been before it turned red . |
| 12 | Labour plans to replace the poll tax , which now costs the 81 Major Street residents a total £24,319.44 , exclusive of any rebates , for the financial year which started on Wednesday . |
| 13 | Labour plans to reduce the number of special schools to five , with one all-age school for children with physical disabilites were rejected . |
| 14 | The use of fiscal and monetary policies to influence the level of demand also has implications for the prices and growth objectives . |
| 15 | Instead more reliance was attached to expenditure-reducing policies ( see Section 7.2.3 ) as a solution to the balance of payments problems , and this involved the use of both fiscal and monetary policies to bring the expansion of demand to a sudden end . |
| 16 | Stuart Weir reports on Tory and Labour attempts to win the argument over constitutional reform |
| 17 | But the news overshadowed Labour attempts to make the economy the centrepiece of their conference attacks on the government . |
| 18 | These could involve technical improvements to reduce the likelihood of collision , for example through the introduction of anti-lock braking systems . |
| 19 | The DTI is to set up working groups to examine the scope for change in some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 20 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 21 | In a statement issued afterwards the two sides agreed to establish joint working groups to study the feasibility of an anti-ballistic missile ( ABM ) early warning centre ; to examine legal co-operation in the field of the exchange of technologies ; and to assess trends in the proliferation of nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 23 | Maintenance crews have been working 18-hour shifts to repair the damage . |
| 24 | More than 20 developers from Sun 's technical staff are teaming with Oracle developers to enhance and localise the Oracle Applications products , as well as associated technologies to improve the efficiency of Sun 's worldwide manufacturing operations , implement the integration of Sun 's Open Look graphical user interface with all components of Oracle 's product suite , and optimise Oracle7 for Sun 's new multiprocessor servers and produce applications that can be sold to Sun 's customers as well . |
| 25 | This means that the Bank of England can not be sure of success if it uses open-market operations to expand the money supply . |
| 26 | Note that in this case if the Bank of England uses open-market operations to reduce the money supply , the official intention may be frustrated as long as the banks ' cash reserves ratio remains above the desired level . |
| 27 | By and large , capital had come to terms with war — an alliance given prominence in 1916 by press agitation for Allied plans to translate the wartime economic blockade of Germany into a post-war policy of concerted discrimination against German exports — the so-called ‘ War After the War . |
| 28 | King James I was a vain , foolish man , full of grandiose , impractical plans to impress the rest of 17th-century Europe . |
| 29 | This is part of learning to balance successfully with the trunk well controlled , and without allowing associated reactions to distort the shoulder girdle or leg . |
| 30 | External factors have also stimulated deforestation : these include the increasing importance of cash crops which are exported to earn foreign currency , increased logging activities and the establishment of extensive ranches to satisfy the wood and meat requirements respectively of the developed world . |