Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] 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 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now British Gas have been forced to scrap plans to pull down the 110-year-old hulk . |
| 11 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 12 | PWMI has studies these sectors to work out the average lifetime for the material in the market . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 15 | She pushed him away , closing her eyes to shut out the present image of his face . |
| 16 | He pressed his hands to his eyes to shut out the dreadful picture . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ So I 've got just about two years and nine months to pay back the full sixty pounds plus interest ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Guardian writer John , 60 , had flown to Austria with other newsmen to test out the gleaming XJ220 on a racing circuit near Salzburg . |
| 22 | 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 . ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Each door and drawer is individually finished by craftsmen to bring out the full beauty of the grain . |
| 25 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 26 | Some mobile phone retailers are now supplying the once popular car phone free , bar an installation charge , and rely on bill-related bonuses to make up the entire profit . |
| 27 | It says vendors took around eighteen months to bring out the first XPG3-branded products after its introduction . |
| 28 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 29 | The manager may take on that role but the new volunteers may find that they lack support as the manager is likely to be too busy with other duties to carry out the in-bureau training task thoroughly . |
| 30 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |