Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( Tap a direction key to clear the highlight ) Proofread , correct , SAVE and log your work ( filename : YourInitials27 , see Task 4 ) . |
| 32 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 33 | The Law Societies have renewed the research contract to enable the Report to be kept up to date , and to help assess how the other Member States are implementing the Directive . |
| 34 | Yet when an attempt was made to obtain nicotine patches or chewing gum to help the patient over her withdrawal and reduce the chaos none were available . |
| 35 | This is a heathland course to gladden the heart . |
| 36 | IBM Corp joined with Phoenix Technologies Ltd to license the IBM personal computer BIOS : the program enables OEM customers to access IBM 's SurePath PC Standard specification for software compatibility interfaces , and through Phoenix , they will also get access to IBM 's Architecture Review Board to extend the SurePath PC standard specification for new technologies and features , the partners said . |
| 37 | Battling Boro came back from a 1–0 half-time deficit to take the semi-final into extra time through a fine goal by Bernie Slaven . |
| 38 | He will report on our Corporate Plan , international activities and current plans on the drawing board to improve the status and image of the Association and , importantly , the services and communications with our members . |
| 39 | A company which makes diesel engines has won a seven million pound contract to supply the United States Military . |
| 40 | Some have a built-in weight strip to provide the weight to hold bottom when the feeder is empty , or a means of attaching a weight of your own choice . |
| 41 | United Motors had received two urgent requests for assistance ; one from the local Managing Director , who needed help to resolve his serious plant problems , and the other from the Turkish Prime Minister requesting UM investment support to reduce the country 's massive trade imbalance . |
| 42 | Moments earlier Amanda 's husband Tony had stopped outside the Comfort Inn car park to let the car Keith was driving go first . |
| 43 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 44 | So there is little chance of our newsreaders breaking off , US-style , from a headline story to extol the virtues of a brand of paint , or even a national newspaper . |
| 45 | ( An alternative story suggests that the top line of the keyboard was arranged to enable typewriter salesman to find the word ‘ typewriter ’ easily . ) |
| 46 | Sticksman Joe mans a wild but never woolly rhythm base to rival the show 's more obvious stars — honey-throated haranguestress Roxanne , and tom , the one-man post-whatever guitar genre . |
| 47 | However , the Lord Chancellor wishes the Legal Aid Board to keep the arrangements governing eligibility and contributions for legal aid under review so as to fulfil the Board 's overall aim , which is to ensure that legal advice , assistance and representation is made available to those who need it . |
| 48 | In this book I shall use the awkward but evocative term hegemon to describe the asymmetry in the global system . |
| 49 | For Total , we progressed with a long term contract to modify the Alwyn North platform and the St. Fergus gas terminal . |
| 50 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 51 | He also asked for a rule change to allow the cleaning of golf balls on the greens — as allowed at some clubs — but apparently not at Henley . |
| 52 | In the final year of the transitional period a repeat referendum to confirm the decision to secede might be held on the initiative of the republic 's Supreme Soviet or of 10 per cent of its permanent Soviet residents . |
| 53 | I walked into the college cinema to find the tutor watching the film on his own . |
| 54 | A three-year research programme to assess the life-span characteristics and as-built performance of flat roofing systems in underway . |
| 55 | Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research . |
| 56 | The French government has launched a research programme to map the spread of the algae and to find ways of destroying them [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 57 | The US Energy Department has started the Waste Isolation Pilot Project ( WIPP ) , a five-year research programme to test the suitability of an underground site in New Mexico for the storage of nuclear waste from government facilities . |
| 58 | research programme to enhance the stability and survivability standards of Ro–Ro passenger ferries . |
| 59 | After a few months , the controversy settled down , and the Department of Conservation announced a 3-year research programme to provide the answers to key questions about the status of banks Peninsula population of Hector 's dolphin . |
| 60 | Bristol-Myers Squibb is funding a US government research programme to study the Pacific yew , including its genetics , biology , ecology and distribution . |