Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir David English was not informed of the visit and in consequence had no plans to attend the Ideal Home Exhibition that day , ’ the official statement announced . |
| 3 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 4 | The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service . |
| 5 | The ideal is to have several simply-administered taxes to support the national exchequer , levied after people have earned their pay or income . |
| 6 | Drains to carry the dirty water underground to the main sewer , septic tank or cesspool . |
| 7 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 8 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 9 | In the 1991 Employee Report , we outlined our plans to penetrate the Middle East market . |
| 10 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 11 | From early on , Hollywood used British stories and lured British actors , later also directors and technicians , across the Atlantic , while making a mint out of British cinemagoers and developing strategies to drive the local product off the nation 's screens . |
| 12 | The port principally connected with this was Bristol , and it may have been the existence of surplus tonnage that led its seamen to turn their attention to new ventures in the fifteenth century , including both attempts to penetrate the Mediterranean trade and the later voyages into the Atlantic . |
| 13 | He backed the plans to support the uneconomic farms and asked : ‘ Do we really need to compress the traditions and vitality of rural life and culture into the straitjacket of an industry like any other ? ’ |
| 14 | To protect the black child we need to develop strategies to enable the white family to become open so that there can be reciprocity between white and black society . |
| 15 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 16 | With the Irish party abstaining , both English and Irish Roman catholic bishops began to pressurize the leader of the Irish party , Redmond , and his associates to support the Conservative bill . |
| 17 | As regards degree courses themselves , some are broader than others , and in effect provide a foundation for subsequent specialized postgraduate education or training ; indeed , it may be more accurate in some cases to see the whole process as a four-year not three-year one , consisting of three foundation years followed by a specialized professional post-graduate year . |
| 18 | The main method of investigation will be a series of interviews with senior development control officers from one local authority planning department , in order to develop a prototype system using an expert system shell , followed by a wider interview survey involving several local authorities to corroborate the initial findings and further refine the system . |
| 19 | However , the split-brain findings may not apply to normal subjects , and attempts to compare the relative effects of damage to left and right sides of the brain are notoriously fraught with problems . |
| 20 | Band attempts to hit the high notes |
| 21 | Plans to restore the original library building in Hamburg include the possibility of exchanging and sharing resources with London . |
| 22 | The machine responds by creating new products to enjoy the new leisure , such as the bicycle and the ‘ magic lantern ’ . |
| 23 | Attempts to restore the immune system are more likely to succeed if anti-viral therapy is used at the same time . |
| 24 | There have been attempts to estimate the economic cost of corporate crimes and render these in a meaningful fashion ( Bequai 1978 : 1 ; Clinard 1978 : 83–102 ; Conklin 1977 : 2–8 ; Geis 1975 : 95–7 ; Hills 1971 : 167–68 ; McCaghy 1976 : 205 ; President 's Task Force Report 1967 : 47–51 ; Stotland 1977:180–82 ) . |
| 25 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 26 | Hence Lapasset 's risible attempts to silence the English choirs . |
| 27 | Declining fish numbers are threatening attempts to reintroduce the bald eagle , which used to breed in large numbers in the area until the 1950s . |
| 28 | Two outstanding characteristics of labour law during the second half of that century were the intermittent recognition by politicians in government and Parliament that control of trade unionism by the imposition of penalties was of doubtful efficacy ; and the recurrent attempts by the courts to preserve the penal method . |
| 29 | Soon the behavioural change leads to new values and the new structures and policies to mirror the new values . |
| 30 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |