Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Hercules from RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire is expected to fly the wounded out of Sarajevo . |
| 2 | The army suffered from separate ministers or officials being responsible for plans of campaign , billeting , pay , stores , engineering and artillery matters and movements , this last being designed to keep the military firmly under civilian control , and for similar reasons , instead of being billeted together , units were scattered over as many as six villages . |
| 3 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 4 | Last year there were six weeks of industrial action , and if needs be , are you prepared to do the same again ? |
| 5 | MEANWHILE , the bureaucrats in Brussels have decided to fight the dreaded Not In My Back Yard syndrome in acronym-to-acronym combat . |
| 6 | With ammunition stockpiles only sufficient to sustain combat for a few days , a lack of the requisite support crafts to service warships and insufficient wartime defence contingencies analysts said that future five-year plans needed to consolidate the qualitative rather than quantitative aspect of the Defence Forces . |
| 7 | Bostik Weatherproof Sealant can be used to seal the joint tightly |
| 8 | A standard electrical connector is used to link the two together ( and there is an optical output for matching the Karik transport to a different DAC ) , but there 's also a special custom link which when connected allows a single master clock to control the whole shebang to the benefit of sound quality . |
| 9 | Having er , been invited to attend the first ever in County Council Hearing I 'm delighted with it 's as well received as it 's had and I would just like to clarify point C which is after the relative sort of consultation with local members and the whole review of meeting er , who will be present at the review meeting ? |
| 10 | Implementation of the plan and evaluation are so closely intertwined that the four-section cycle is redrawn to highlight the regular to-and-fro between the first ( ‘ sustain commitment ’ ) and the second ( ‘ check progress ’ ) which leads to ‘ overcome problems ’ and then ‘ check successes ’ . |
| 11 | My people feel that the right hon. Gentleman would have been better employed if he had rushed to comfort the bereaved rather than carry out a song-and-dance act among people in Dublin , or even watch a rugby match . |
| 12 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 13 | Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network . |
| 14 | The hostel forced to turn the homeless away . |
| 15 | He was forced to deliver the bad 4.50pm motoring news to commuters over his portable phone . |
| 16 | Our first ‘ find ’ was Earle Kelly , a bewhiskered and rusty-voiced newsman from the Daily Province , who was engaged to read the 9 o'clock news . |
| 17 | The driver , Fred King , used to goad them , always at them , never left them alone so instead of getting the best out of them he seemed to be determined to get the worst instead . |
| 18 | A true mystical experience is not only intended to make the adept less egotistic but it should also make him more alert and help him to function better . |
| 19 | MacMillan has chosen to incorporate the delicate sometimes intricate turnings of the arms and hands used by the actor-dancers in the traditional Chinese theatre . |
| 20 | Yet paradoxically , this very scope itself demanded rapid resolution of such stresses , particularly since as time went on it would become more apparent that a much greater momentum and will than that supplied by the Treaty of Rome would be required to push the Six firmly into economic union and political unity . |