Example sentences of "[vb pp] [num] [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each was given 30 minutes to solve the problems they were set . |
| 2 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 3 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 4 | It is expected that the members of the team of consultants will be announced in May and that they will be given six months to complete the report , which will be published towards the end of the year . |
| 5 | Utilities supplying large cities were given six years to meet the standards by taking chemical action to reduce the acidity of their water , which should cut the amount of lead leached from the pipes . |
| 6 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 7 | I have selected ten routes to represent the varied character and development of the crag divided left to right . |
| 8 | The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals ( CVCP ) has made two attempts to define the purpose of the Ph D. The first , in 1975 , said that the Ph D is a ‘ training for independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’ |
| 9 | Nigel Lawson has now made two attempts to smooth the system out . |
| 10 | COMECON : The nine-member Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) was formally dissolved following its 46th session in Budapest on June 28 ; a liquidation committee was given 90 days to oversee the organization 's dissolution . |
| 11 | And Altovar Limited has been given three months to pay the eight thousand pound fine . |
| 12 | All EC states would be given three years to introduce the necessary legislation except for the UK , which had strongly opposed the proposal and was given 10 years to implement it [ see also p. 38658 for UK option to withdraw from social policy aspects of European Union ] . |
| 13 | Firemen used three pumps to bring the blaze under control but no-one was injured . |
| 14 | It has had three chances to cure the structural problems of the UK — abolition of rationing and freeing the interest mechanism from the Dalton experience in the 1950s , the Selsden Man competition and credit control in the 1970s , and the deregulation and monetarism of the 1980s . |
| 15 | All in all , it was a fitting country seat for a magnate ; even before the rebuilding it had needed 160 servants to run the house and grounds . |
| 16 | A Mr Portier was offered five guineas to translate the first part of the Professor 's lectures on ‘ The Bones ’ . |
| 17 | It was unofficially agreed by masters and men alike that no apprentice really needed seven years to learn the trade . |
| 18 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | He did not know that Isambard , unsure of the numbers with which he had to deal , and always thorough , had brought forty men to sustain the assault against his dozen ; and even if he had known it would have brought him no comfort . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've only ever known one way to play the game , and that is to pass the ball on the floor . |
| 21 | Hugh Stretton ( 1978 ) has provided four metaphors to characterize the city : the city as machine ; as community ; as a market place ; and as a battle-ground . |
| 22 | Then the firm are given one year to make the grade . |
| 23 | In a bid to ‘ sweep away secret bargaining and diplomacy ’ Labour appointed two delegates to attend the Riga peace conference . |
| 24 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 25 | We had allowed six days to explore the island : it was scarce enough . |
| 26 | Charmingly , the verses are written along the edge of a circular piece of paper , which is folded three times to make the shape of a cone . |
| 27 | The provisions of clauses 14 , 17 and 18 relevant to the issues before me have been helpfully set out in the affidavit of Mr. McKeown in which I have interpolated three numbers to indicate the particular passages which were dealt with in argument . |
| 28 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 29 | He has taken three characters to make the basis of this chapter . |
| 30 | Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole . |