Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 2 | The proposal , described in the report as " unprecedented " , was apparently intended to signal the Hinduja 's long-term confidence in the Indian economy . |
| 3 | The election could hardly have been better designed to promote the DUP . |
| 4 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 5 | Mr. Routley added : ‘ We believe that a charitable trust dedicated to conserving railways is better equipped to revive the WHR than a county council . |
| 6 | Perhaps , if we had only tried to wield the Spear , we would have been saved ; but none had the heart or the courage . |
| 7 | To this end we have just agreed to sell the Great Tower Street office to an overseas investor for £18.4 million and we shall remain in place as the head tenant . |
| 8 | So imagine the confused looks on the faces of viewers in America , where the PBS network has just started to show the Yorkshire Dale 's soap for the first time . |
| 9 | Whereas many of my Army friends can trace their ancestry back and produce forebears who were generals and colonels , some of them were surprised to learn of my Army background but shocked to learn that Tam somehow managed to join the Gordons as a drummer-boy and , 22 years later , reached the rank of Private soldier . |
| 10 | Spurred on by the promise of really good lighting , more than a million women have already paid to see the Chippendales . |
| 11 | The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself . |
| 12 | Despite the ‘ fine cast of characters … assembled for a morality play , even a tragedy , that once promised to rival the Watergate scandal ’ , only twelve people sat in the public seats . |
| 13 | It was further agreed to ask the UN Security Council to endorse this decision and to make the application of sanctions mandatory for all UN member states . |
| 14 | ICI had once hoped to price the Zeneca rights issue much higher , at 650–675p . |
| 15 | She had always wanted to see the Spice Islands . |
| 16 | The baskets of fruit behind the sink and hob were specially created to match the Villeroy & Boch china that the Mills have collected over the years . |
| 17 | Miss Foley reminded Brenda of Mona Rigby at school , who was always chosen to play the Madonna in the Christmas nativity play . |
| 18 | Intending to complete two weeks of intensive training whilst sailing to Southampton , he was distracted by the food and entertainment , but still managed to cross the Marathon finishing line on Westminster Bridge just over four hours after the starter 's gun had fired . |
| 19 | The designs have been specially chosen to complement the Concorde range of porcelain finger plates and door knobs . |
| 20 | With a Mozart concerto framed by Beethoven and Richard Strauss in the first , and the British premiere of American composer John Corigliano 's First Symphony scheduled to be partnered by four Ravel pieces in the second , the originally announced programmes for its two Festival Hall concerts had been deliberately chosen to illustrate the Chicago 's versatility . |
| 21 | Lotus has also decided to use the DEC systems as the development environment for Unix versions of Ami Pro . |
| 22 | It was also decided to involve the VHWs more directly in the health centre . |
| 23 | German officials have repeatedly threatened to leave the EC integration process unless they can have it their way . |
| 24 | A joint communiqué issued on Sept. 21 , welcoming the " final phase " of a search for a solution , noted the SNC 's agreement on the electoral system , and said that the SNC had also agreed to provide the UN Secretariat with a detailed report on military forces in order to implement the partial demobilization agreed in Pattaya [ see p. 38389 ] . |
| 25 | Ghorbanifar had also offered to provide the CIA with intelligence about Iran in return for being allowed to smuggle drugs . |
| 26 | ‘ Yet the Labour Party has repeatedly refused to repudiate the TUC motion rejecting inward investment as alien . |
| 27 | Peacock grabbed two penalties and Liam O'Brien , Franz Carr and Kevin Brock also scored to maintain the Magpies ' 100 per cent League record . |
| 28 | He was also authorized to urge the South African government to end violence " with the utmost urgency " . |
| 29 | Its disclosures also served to heighten the WEA 's apprehension about the problems inherent in the RAC policy and confirmed the worst fears of those WEA members who were involved in the difficult protracted negotiations currently in hand in early 1939 . |
| 30 | In 1985 legislation was also passed to abolish the GLC and the metropolitan counties ( all of which were Labour controlled ) . |