Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car .
2 Why , when the opposition goalie was taking a goal-kick , did he crouch forward and remain motionless like Johnny Fartpants ? was this some attempt to psyche out the opposition ?
3 A campaign to prevent the closure of Edinburgh 's dental school ended in failure when the Universities Funding Council announced its intention to phase out the school 's grant from next autumn .
4 Quoting reseller sources briefed by the company , Computer Reseller News is looking for Sun to phase out the ELC and Sparcstation 2 to make room for new Tsunami-run IPCs and IPXs .
5 Proposal to Set up a Cook-chill System
6 Anecdotes like this help to flesh out the inanimate objects we sell .
7 Their names will be in Japanese history books if they can persuade the Soviet leader to hand back the islands .
8 Because of the drive swapping the CONFIG.SYS file is stored in the uncompressed drive D. If you edit this file to REM out the DEVSWAP command you might be lucky enough to recover the ROM drive but I can not guarantee it .
9 The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI .
10 They wo n't take a slightest bit of notice … and will use the paper to role up a joint .
11 During its final meetings in 1978 , the Further Education Sub-Committee of ACSTT considered the implications for the major centres of further education teacher training of the DES decision to phase out the Certificate of Education as a qualification for teaching in schools .
12 The least they should be required to do , without further reluctance , is to announce a firm decision to phase out the drift-netting within five years .
13 All I ask of you is to make one phone call to firm up a social event , and you ca n't even get that together ! ’
14 The Mercantile 's switch to Klea 134a is another step in a growing trend to phase out the use of CFCs which is required by 1995 under a world environmental agreement .
15 A whole succession of international agreements have come into being since then , including the Montreal Protocol to phase out the manufacture and use of ozone-depleting chemicals ( such as CFCs ) and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , which has played a significant role in helping to protect some of the world 's rarest flora and fauna .
16 The FDIC was already weak from helping to bail out a large number of savings and loan institutions ( the so-called " thrifts " ) , some of which had lost large sums through misguided speculation or outright corruption [ see p. 36843 ; 37412 ] .
17 ICI strongly supports the Montreal Protocol , an international agreement to phase out the dispersive use of ozone-depleting chemicals .
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