Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 2 | I allowed my feelings to get the better of me . |
| 3 | Since the conversation was outpacing my efforts to note the salient points , I gave up trying and used the little tape-recorder I had brought with me . |
| 4 | The first is the need for those reproducing my procedures to acknowledge the previous work that I and my co-worker Archangel Gabriel defined as God Assisted Pregnancies ( GAP ) . |
| 5 | Since the early 1980s , the Pro Life lobby had made all the political running , especially in the Republican Party where candidates at local and national level , including George Bush , were forced to amend their views to fit the new conservative orthodoxy . |
| 6 | The bid , via a share swap , will merge their operations to make the Swedish group the 20th largest European insurer . |
| 7 | When his own daughter passed the age of twelve , Salah kept her at school and persuaded the parents of six of her contemporaries to do the same . |
| 8 | This meant that most Liberals remained resolutely opposed to the idea that the Liberal Party had to change its policies to fit the new problems facing society . |
| 9 | The reduction in the amount of ACT the company pays ( which would otherwise be surplus ) will only be attractive if there is sufficient take-up by its shareholders to make the related administration and costs worthwhile . |
| 10 | As with any other share issue , the purchaser may need to seek approval of its shareholders to increase the authorised share capital and to authorise the directors to allot the shares pursuant to CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 11 | The ZCTU warned the government yesterday that ‘ its attempts to suppress the growing disenchantment of the masses … will certainly plunge the whole society into complete turmoil sooner rather than later ’ . |
| 12 | Its attempts to strangle the revolutionary movement at birth during May 1968 were consistent with the approach taken over the previous 30 years , including the immediate postwar period ( part I ) . |
| 13 | The Labour party 's reliance on producers rather than consumers will constantly bedevil its attempts to convince the British people that it is serious on these issues . |
| 14 | Labour has gained little in its attempts to attack the public spending review . |
| 15 | Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery . |
| 16 | She dropped the brush , winnowing the pale strands of her hair with her fingers to loosen the stubborn tangles . |
| 17 | As she prayed , Nicandra squinted through her fingers to watch the exquisite bread and butter swallowed and followed by gentle sips of tea on her mother 's part and grosser gulps from her father 's side of the bed . |
| 18 | Market traders were put out when it was announced they would be losing their pitches to accommodate the big top . |
| 19 | They craned their necks to watch the white-faced girl , limp as a corpse , carried out in her father 's arms . |
| 20 | The author does not like the way science has ‘ stacked the deck ’ in its own favour , arranging its metaphors to exclude the contradictory or ephemeral . |
| 21 | The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the surprise winners of East Germany 's election , the Conservative Alliance have suffered a set-back in their plans to reunify the 2 Germanies . |
| 23 | Disappointed governors at Hummersknott School in Darlington have had to shelve their plans to reopen the sixth form after being told that they have no legal right of appeal against Durham county council 's rejection of the scheme . |
| 24 | His initial steps were taken to foil what he interpreted as attempts by the superpowers or their proxies to bolster the bipolar order . |
| 25 | Minpins from all over the forest had flown in on their birds to cheer the young hero , and all the branches and twigs of the great tree were crowded with tiny people . |
| 26 | More importantly , it will indicate that theorists are following the right path in their attempts to unite the disparate forces of nature within one mathematical framework . |
| 27 | Lack of early-season form undermined their attempts to reach the last eight of the Benson & Hedges Cup , and in the Refuge League they were inconsistent . |
| 28 | It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory . |
| 29 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 30 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |