Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact , directly after today 's game I will be going into frank discussions with the chairman to search out the real dead wood . |
| 2 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 3 | The driver sought out the agreed parking space which was as far away as possible from the canteen and shop complex . |
| 4 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 5 | If it were possible to store all the different types of primary data in computer-readable form then it would become feasible to use the speed of the computer to carry out the required searches , comparisons , overlays and numerical modelling . |
| 6 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 7 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 8 | It is theoretically possible in each case to work out the maximum sustainable yield , and to determine which classes of the animal — superfluous young ones , superfluous males , old ones — can safely be caught without damaging the stocks . |
| 9 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 10 | However , Baker had to call on his years of experience to shake off the gritty Ballymena man , who made all the running , but faltered over the final ends . |
| 11 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 12 | All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session . |
| 13 | Instonians have former international and vice-captain Keith Crossan back in the side after a successful visit to Donegal 's Sheephaven Bay where the local junior club laid out the red carpet in spectacular fashion for an international select side . |
| 14 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 15 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
| 16 | Determined to arrange a meeting to discuss it ( postponed as it has been from summer to autumn , autumn to December , December to ‘ early in the the New Year ’ and so on … ) , she rang the Scottish Office direct in an attempt to find out the proposed date of revelation and publication . |
| 17 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 18 | A room vine climbing up the old chimney-breast … |
| 19 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 20 | Thirdly , the Act has created a system of ‘ shorthold ’ tenancies — an attempt to open up the ailing private rented sector . |
| 21 | The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening . |
| 22 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 23 | The Comintern , completely disregarding their past policy , called upon " all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the united front of struggle with the social democratic workers through the medium of the social democratic parties " . |
| 24 | Just because yours is n't as good , her mind fills in the blank space . |
| 25 | Scientists are studying ex-smokers , people with depression , athletes and those recovering from prolonged illness in an attempt to sort out the complicated physical and psychological cues which lead us to crave specific foods . |
| 26 | Unix System Labs , which is n't even a party to the action , has been subpoea 'd by the Open Software Foundation in its attempt to ward off the now-famous $100m antitrust suit lodged against it by Addamax Inc that Sun Microsystems Inc could wind up paying for ( UX Nos 404 , 331 ) . |
| 27 | In early September north European government officials meeting in Ronneby , Sweden , agreed to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Baltic and to halve the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 28 | In mid-January 1991 the Indian government announced a programme to clean up the 800-km long Yamuna River which flowed through Delhi before joining the Ganges at Allahabad , and was polluted by ( among other sources ) untreated chemicals from a major oil refinery at Mathura and several tanneries in Agra . |
| 29 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 30 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |