Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain .
2 The purpose of this relief is to permit the bobbin case hook to pass the needle without touching it .
3 It remains to be seen just how much public money has had to be promised for the Heathrow to central London fast rail link to break the deadlock between airports operator BAA and British Rail .
4 Customs have now used the Polysar decision to review the position and have stated that they will deny recovery of input VAT incurred by a holding company in carrying out its basic functions .
5 The hydrogens are probably removed one by one : first , the methane loses a hydrogen atom to give the methyl radical , CH 3 , and extremely reactive fragment .
6 There 's no suggestion that any deliberate cruelty was taking place on the farm , but the RSPCA decided to call in a ministry of agriculture vet to examine the animals .
7 But the organisation may be in dire need of the fee following Oki Data Electric Industry Co decision to leave the X/Open consortium over Christmas .
8 Members fear more jobs could be lost if a budget decision to cut the jobs and save money is ratified at a special full council meeting tomorrow night .
9 Do not overfeed , only place in the tank enough brine shrimp to match the size of the brood .
10 I have to make decisions every second about when I leave the rhythm guitar part to play the melody and how I balance between switching the pickup selection , reach over , mute the strings and play .
11 On Oct. 18 the House approved , by 379 votes to 37 , another stop-gap funding measure to enable the government to keep operating for another week .
12 In addition , a purchaser should have the necessary funding support to complete the deal .
13 Now if you give the school its own budget it can in fact , if it so wishes , go to the private sector , it can buy in private sector computer expertise to teach the children , and that will be very beneficial .
14 The Dolphin SCI Technology A/S arm of Oslo , Norway-based Dolphin Server Technology A/S , already has an agreement with Vitesse Semiconductor Corp to make chips for its Scalable Coherent Interface high-speed bus in Gallium Arsenide — it runs at 1Gbps — and with Convex Computer Corp to use the thing .
15 All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system .
16 In particular , this instrument was used during the case study to examine the information needs of customers in terms of time , security , reliability etc , and to decide how these factors might be improved .
17 This creates an offence of assisting a drug trafficker to retain the benefits of his or her proceeds .
18 Finally , draught-proof the point where the sashes meet by pinning on a length of plastic or metal spring strip excluder to cover the gap .
19 This is common at the beginning of a behaviour change programme to enhance the process and speed up the initial rate of change .
20 Activists in rich countries will organise consumer boycotts of genetically engineered foods , while farmers in the south take action to oppose the patenting of genes .
21 The initiative comes from the industry following the setting-up of the first Chinese Takeaway Association to represent the country 's 10,000 shops .
22 THE International Equestrian Federation is taking action to combat both physical abuse of horses and drug misuse to protect the reputation of the sport , writes Genevieve Murphy .
23 For this is not only the man in charge of the Second Division leaders but the former manager of West Ham , the last Second Division club to win the FA Cup .
24 In 1980 he moved to the computer industry to develop the use of microcomputers in the personnel field .
25 ( It is worth remembering that in those days the Grand National fences did not incorporate a sloping apron of gorse on the take-off side to help the horses jump accurately : the take-off side was sheer , and consequently more difficult to gauge correctly . )
26 Neil Jenkins ’ restart was gathered by Gary Armstrong and the scrum-half , like some meteorological mystic , harnessed the swirling gusts in the corridor down the east stand side to hoof the ball a gargantuan 70 metres .
27 In 1980 , three ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shops opened in Atlanta , Georgia , Baltimore , Maryland and Costa Mesa , California , and Laura derived great pleasure from travelling to the West Coast to attend the opening of this shop .
28 In the Central Market in San Salvador , the manager , General Noel Aparicio , created a special uniformed and armed vigilante force to intimidate the market women , " It got to the point where we felt we were entering a prison , not a market .
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