Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For God 's sake , get to sea instantly … , ’ the First Lord of the Admiralty signalled the captain in command of the squadron assigned to blockade the Texel . |
| 2 | Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them . |
| 3 | This , after all , is a programme designed to cut the US budget deficit and boost the economy . |
| 4 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 5 | And he warned that any compensation paid to satisfy the Ombudman 's requirements , would squeeze funds set aside to help people with disabilities . |
| 6 | Cumani trained Commanche Run to win the Doncaster classic in 1984 — and reckons Bonny Scot is a chip off the old block . |
| 7 | Peter Robinson , the Democratic Unionist Party 's deputy leader , described the arrests as a publicity stunt designed to appease the UDR 's critics . |
| 8 | The soldier , a member of the Royal Irish Rangers , took the 65-year-old man forced to drive the Hiace van to safety . |
| 9 | Again and again as the nation prepared to cross the River Jordan and enter the Promised Land , Moses solemnly charged them : ‘ Remember ! ’ |
| 10 | Miranda 's ten-man board of directors had recently been expanded to include a new chairman , the Earl of Brighton , and Frederick Swanson of Seligman Swanson , the merchant bank chosen to handle the SUPPLYKITS flotation . |
| 11 | In fact , by this stage , the state Department knew that there was almost no country prepared to accept the Shah . |
| 12 | So , while a statute is needed to authorize the expenditure required to fund the CICS , a statute was not needed to establish or administer it . |
| 13 | 13 The Illustrated London News published this illustration of the technology used to produce the Westminster Abbey recording . |
| 14 | Consequently , when , n , which means that the fall-off in response is once again 20n dB per decade of frequency and the order n corresponds to the order of practical filter needed to synthesise the Chebyshev response . |
| 15 | The length of time taken to prepare the OED and its Supplement reflects the skilled , complex , and painstaking labour required in their composition . |