Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 2 | Legislation created a host of unemployed bureaucrats , municipal and seigniorial officials , who exhibited what liberals called ‘ passive ’ opposition to the constitution — the refusal of local authorities to carry out the administrative changes and apply the laws of the Cortes . |
| 3 | Although there are plans to scale down the additional pension , this will not affect anyone retiring before 1998 and will only marginally affect those retiring by 2009 . |
| 4 | His running tore QPR to shreds and he took a Waddle ball after 30 minutes to go down the left and set up Bright for a virtual tap in , his eighth goal in 14 games . |
| 5 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 6 | She was standing at the gas-stove , turning a plucked chicken over the flames to singe away the tiny feathers left behind in the skin . |
| 7 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 8 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 9 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 10 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 11 | The aims of the research will be : to obtain a national picture of the approaches to assessing the quality of schooling to develop a typology of these approaches and an understanding of their different rationales to establish how the various approaches are perceived by those involved to explore , through detailed case studies , how the different approaches influence the practice and development of schools , both in the short and medium terms . |
| 12 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 13 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 14 | I fully understand the considerable cross-party support for what was said in the ten-minute Bill , but it is important that we wait a few months to see where the European Court comes down . |
| 15 | PWMI has studies these sectors to work out the average lifetime for the material in the market . |
| 16 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 17 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 18 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 19 | And er if if it 's appropriate for North Yorkshire to apply environmental constraints within the whole of its area , I 'm not talking about particular districts but in in the whole of its area , then it is appropriate for Leeds and Bradford and the metropolitan districts to do exactly the same thing . |
| 20 | She pushed him away , closing her eyes to shut out the present image of his face . |
| 21 | He pressed his hands to his eyes to shut out the dreadful picture . |
| 22 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
| 23 | Thames Valley Police have rounded up some of the world 's fastest cars to ram home the anti-speeding message . |
| 24 | ‘ So I 've got just about two years and nine months to pay back the full sixty pounds plus interest ? ’ |
| 25 | When I opened a High Interest Business Account ( in addition to the Club 's Current Account ) in September 1990 I was assured that funds to top up the current account would be transferred automatically from the business account whenever the former 's balance fell below £50 . |
| 26 | In fact development of Housing Action Trusts to deal with particularly run-down estates and Scottish Homes to break up the public sector suggests an alternative vision , based on state-sponsored restructuring and renewal from above , rather than individual choice . |
| 27 | Guardian writer John , 60 , had flown to Austria with other newsmen to test out the gleaming XJ220 on a racing circuit near Salzburg . |
| 28 | For conservatives , this policy is part of a trend to encourage private initiatives and voluntary organizations to take over the traditional government role in the health services ( SCF , op. cit . ) . |
| 29 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 30 | Each door and drawer is individually finished by craftsmen to bring out the full beauty of the grain . |