Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanchez reached into his shirt pocket and drew out a fat paper cylinder , stroking its length with pursed fingers to smooth the kinks . |
| 2 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 3 | He has put down a Commons motion condemning the Defence Secretary for ‘ the arbitrary action which he is taking to extinguish the ancient rights of common [ … ] for political reasons to prevent the women 's peace camp from continuing their peaceful demonstrations ’ . |
| 4 | Equally problematic is the validity of Sidonius 's very cultured presentation of the barbarian courts of Theodoric II , Euric and Chilperic I. Here , the author might have had political reasons to present the barbarians in as positive a light as possible . |
| 5 | European Community telecommunications ministers yesterday agreed the legislation intended to ensure that voice telephone services are provided in an open and efficient way across the Community , Reuter reports from Brussels : the legislation , which must be reviewed by the European Parliament before it becomes final , would improve access of users to public telephone networks and impose rules or objectives in areas such as prices , contracts and billing ; it would establish the principle that prices are based on cost , rather than cross-subsidy — in many countries , long distance calls subsidise local calls ; France won agreement on changes that would enable tariffs to be adjusted to ensure ‘ cohesion ’ within a state — in order to cover things like service to remote areas ; the ministers are also due this week to debate the controversial plans to liberalise the telecommunications market by 1998 . |
| 6 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 7 | We shall need athletic Parliamentary Private Secretaries to obtain the answers to all my questions . |
| 8 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 9 | The real fear that this revolution might overthrow the Tsar forced him to make some political concessions to appease the masses . |
| 10 | ‘ I know the Japanese are a very clean race , very keen on hygiene , but they had let things go towards the finish and we had to get their working parties to clean the ditches out . ’ |
| 11 | Nowadays , the results of nearly all such surveys are plotted by computer , which offers a wide range of diagrammatic methods to portray the results . |
| 12 | It has to be said , however , that some people continue their addiction to death even while making repeated attempts to follow the principles of the Anonymous Fellowship , yet still relapsing time and time again . |
| 13 | The influence of growing literacy and the competition of rival claims to belief and allegiance have increasingly driven states to abandon the assumptions of privacy which governed their relations in more aristocratic ages , and this has provided more published material for the historian to study . |
| 14 | The sea voyage from Britain necessitated daily rehearsals to keep the Girls limbered . |
| 15 | As we shall see , in each case the three theories focus on different phenomena to explain the causes of these problems and arrive at very different prescriptions for dealing with them . |
| 16 | Postgraduate : students are expected to participate in the seminars and are encouraged to attend scientific meetings to present the results of the research projects and meet experts in their fields of study . |
| 17 | Many have complementary anti-cellulite products to boost the effects . |
| 18 | Pete Smith uses techniques that date back to medieval times to work the rods of metal into everything from gates to furniture . |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , given the substantial extra burden that will be placed on employers , well-meaning proposals to extend the benefits of the national insurance system to low-paid employees would have the opposite effect to the one intended , as most would lose their jobs ? |
| 20 | At this stage it is possible to run electronic checks to identify the students who have not handed anything in , and/or to send electronic ‘ receipts ’ to those who have . |
| 21 | In the 1670s it became clear that this was not the case and that the English really did intend to have a network of trade among all English possessions to give the colonies a safe if restricted market in England and to allow England — and London in particular — the whole re-export trade from the entire empire . |
| 22 | However , Operation Granby proved that it is possible to go out onto the charter market for ships and find ships from many different nations to perform the tasks that we wanted of them . |
| 23 | With a client list which includes Thomas Cook , Walkers Crisps , Rumbelows and Asda , it is hoping that its pragmatic approach will tempt more Scottish clients to test the benefits of sales promotion . |
| 24 | I am describing only the current reality : the state of the art of software engineering — the art of programming the raw hardware of our increasingly cheap and reliable computers to meet the needs and aspirations of their users . |
| 25 | Such solutions must provide proper safeguards to protect the rights and interests of patients , their families and carers , while setting the framework for the provision of adequate and appropriate care . |
| 26 | Future safety testing of pesticides should be conducted on immature animals to ascertain the effects of exposure on the young , the panel said , and researchers should develop bioassay protocols that provide information on the contribution exposures to chemicals at different ages have on lifetime risks for disease . |
| 27 | The pointed arch was merely the most efficient form of building technology at the time ( in Stamford a pointed arch is sometimes used in medieval cellars to span the sites of earlier quarry pits ) and the undercroft at no. 13 St. Mary 's Hill was not a crypt for St. Mary 's Church , but a shop with steps giving access to the street . |
| 28 | About this time some members of the Scottish field staff began to use petrological microscopes to identify the rocks from their mapping areas . |
| 29 | It allowed Franco to play the nationalist card more blatantly than ever , using his public appearances to recall the horrors of the Civil War and to present himself as both martyr on the altar of Spain 's liberation from communism and guarantor of the continued existence of Spain as a coherent socio-political entity . |
| 30 | To offset this , the central bank persuaded commercial banks to buy the dollars back in exchange for marks , in effect reversing the original transaction , and then to lend the dollars in the Eurodollar market . |