Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 2 | However , West Germany was reluctant to spend heavily on the foreign exchanges to support the yen , because of its likely inflationary impact . |
| 3 | In the individual contests , Alan took top points to win the 250cc class in his Suzuki with a first second and third on Saturday and a second on Sunday . |
| 4 | She beat five male candidates to secure the £82,000-a-year post . |
| 5 | He was helpless ; he was not convinced , but he lacked the self-assurance and moral authority to go back to his office to use his official powers to requisition the people 's promade . |
| 6 | On that occasion , he ran a sizzling 10.11secs to win the 100m and finished third in a blanket finish in the 200m behind winner Frankie Fredericks and runner-up Michael Johnson . |
| 7 | I used little shells to represent the people in the town , as usual . |
| 8 | The President was C.-in-C. of the armed forces ; he was empowered to appoint the government and in exceptional circumstances to dissolve the People 's Assembly or to declare war or a state of emergency . |
| 9 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |
| 10 | ‘ These clumsy attempts to muzzle the media reveal the lack of credibility that undermines our entire political system , ’ Mr Brunner added . |
| 11 | BT has developed a range of new software , including both packages that will help customers either to type in the data for the returns and tailored solutions to retrieve the data automatically from existing accounting systems . |
| 12 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 13 | Instead , increased emphasis will be given to strengthening protection and management of Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park , including increased efforts to monitor the rhino population . |
| 14 | Rescuers used ropes and grappling hooks to descend the 60ft ravine to search for survivors . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that the new cataract centre at Manchester royal eye hospital is dependent upon private patients to pay the £2 million loan for its refurbishment ? |
| 16 | After presiding over his first Cabinet meeting Moore promised on Sept. 10 that his government would take immediate steps to avert the $NZ2,500 million budget deficit forecast for 1991-92 . |
| 17 | Legal Case 's connections were the only ones to pay the £30,000 supplementary fee . |
| 18 | During take-offs and landings , some Flying Control personnel would occupy a caravan placed near the start of the runway being used , and they would fire green or red flares to let the aircraft know if they were cleared to land or take-off , and on this occasion one of the men was very quick off the mark , saw the crash and was immediately on the spot , helping the crew to get out of the burning aircraft . |
| 19 | According to the report five officers had planned to use two military helicopters to bomb the headquarters during a joint meeting of government ministers and the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) to discuss the austerity measures to be announced the next day . |
| 20 | There are indeed more pertinent matters to exercise the media mind — following his career-best 8 for 50 against Sussex at Southampton . |
| 21 | Mr Bézier saw that a shape — any shape — could be described as a set of mathematical equations to fit the series of curves which formed its outline . |
| 22 | In the mid-1880s , Mr Lawson Tait , who as police surgeon in Birmingham during the 1890s exhibited a profoundly misogynist attitude in his treatment of rape victims , commented that ‘ to leave only the inferior women to perpetuate the species will do more to deteriorate the human race than all the individual victories at Girton will do to benefit it ’ . |
| 23 | Mitigating measures proposed to minimise the impact of large numbers of visitors include the cordoning off , by erection of a barrier , of the ski area to prevent people climbing the ridge and the provision of forage in specific locations to attract the sheep into areas that are least disturbed . |
| 24 | Yale views the purchase as a long-term commitment and already has plans for new subjects to take the series into the twenty-first century . |
| 25 | New recruits to keep the militia up to establishment , and to allow longer-serving members to go home , were selected by ballot . |
| 26 | As these allocations fell short of what had been proposed , the USA filed a ‘ reservation ’ , expressing the view that the conference had failed to make adequate provision for the h.f. needs of the broadcasting service , particularly below 10MHz and reserving the right of the US ‘ to take the necessary steps to meet the h.f. needs of its broadcasting service . ’ |
| 27 | For them as clergymen the obvious solution was to take on other duties to supplement the £10 , but administratively it was clearly better that they should be paid , adequately , for their work without being forced to divert their energies in other directions . |
| 28 | The question of law raised by the application was whether Savory Milln could be made personally liable as constructive trustees to repay the £13.5m ( no longer traceable ) which had been applied in discharge of Mr Ferriday 's and other sub-underwriters ' liabilities to Savory Milln . |
| 29 | But it is vital that supporting such ventures does not mean playing into the hands of the wrong people and so enabling exploitative interests to pluck the fruit of poor people 's toil and initiative . |
| 30 | The Canadian government intervened with measures to help the fishermen and other measures to help the fish ; and though it acted with the best of intentions , it had the worst of results . |